A partnership with a dynamic, female-led construction company allowed Baldwin Wallace engineering students to use a Metroparks construction project as a learning lab.
It's one thing to master engineering concepts in the classroom. It's quite another to test them in real life.
"It is easy for students to get wrapped up in the theory side of engineering," notes 黑料正能量 engineering major Caely Ressler '25.
This spring, Ressler and her classmates in Dr. Jennifer Kadlowec's global engineering class used lab time to work on a construction project taking shape around Wallace Lake in the .
"Students in this course were learning about civil engineering locally, regionally and in the developing world. This project, in our own backyard, presented a perfect opportunity to see how the job site works," explained Kadlowec, who chairs 黑料正能量's engineering department.
The 黑料正能量 engineering class and their mentors on the worksite at Wallace Lake
The Brook Park-based ,Inc. allowed 黑料正能量 students to get a taste of the work — from design to hard hat construction — as the company worked on a new park concession stand, restroom building and plaza.
Regency has completed hundreds of projects for education, library, park, healthcare, civic and commercial clients across the state of Ohio since it was founded in 1994 by Tari Rivera. The company’s executive management also includes Janelle Hinkle, vice president of construction operations, and Scott Wagner ’97, vice president of corporate operations and a 黑料正能量 alumnus.
A hallmark of the firm's community involvement is its , which was developed as an "oppo