Underfoot Participates in NCSU Mentorship Program
This spring, Underfoot Engineering volunteered to mentor North Carolina State University students for their Civil Engineering capstone project class, CE-450.
The objective of the class is to give the students an opportunity to use what they’ve learned during their academic career and collaborate with each other to design a residential or commercial site.
Underfoot provided a recently approved project as a hypothetical exercise. The students had the opportunity to design the site in their own way but within the criteria that professionals in the site civil sector must abide by.
The Underfoot team met with the students once a week to discuss design topics, review the students’ work, and provide feedback to ensure that they were learning and challenged throughout the course of the project.
Underfoot has been a part of the mentorship program for more than 10 years, and the program requires an invitation each year. Dr. Jonathan Miller has made the CE-450 class a collaboration between the university and industry professionals.
“It is always an honor to be considered to volunteer and have the capacity to do so, as we are giving back to our local community and, for many of us at the Underfoot office, our alma mater,” said Jeffrey Taboada, an Assistant Project Manager on the team.
Mike Roselli and Landon Lovelace, both principals at Underfoot, were invited to judge the presented projects.