As part of their Senior Design Capstone course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students will create designs for streetscape improvements in downtown Granger, Iowa.

The City of Granger seeks to revitalize its downtown with streetscape improvements along Main Street and Broadway Street. As the community continues to grow, the City aims to create a downtown that is safe, accessible, attractive, and supportive of local businesses while improving the overall experience for residents and visitors.

As part of their Senior Design Capstone course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students will create proposals for the adaptive reuse of the Larchwood Community Center.

The City of Larchwood is exploring opportunities to repurpose its old community center to better serve current and future community needs. The City is seeking engineering recommendations that evaluate multiple adaptive reuse alternatives and provide conceptual designs to help inform future investment decisions.

For their capstone project in Civil and Environmental Engineering, a team of students developed a comprehensive plan to evaluate, prioritize, and design utility replacements in a subdivision in West Branch. 

The City of West Branch aims to balance historical identity with the demands of a growing community, necessitating the modernization of aging core infrastructure. City officials sought assitance on a process for identifying and prioritizing projects in order to best utilize limited public funding. 

As part of their capstone project, Public Affairs graduate students developed metrics and conducted an analysis of Dubuque's Green Alleyways Project, which is designed to improve the aesthetic and environmental functions of alleys in the Bee Branch Watershed.  

On behalf of the City of North Liberty, a group of Civil and Engineering students reviewed current conditions at an intersection in the growing municipality. The team set up traffic counters and used that data to create a simulation model to investigate different traffic scenarios along both Ranshaw and Penn corridors.

Three students in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering created plans for an underpass for the City of Norther Liberty. The underpass is part of the final phase of a reconstruction of Ranshaw Way.

For their graduating capstone project, students in Civil and Environmental Engineering created a proposal for a new trail system aimed at cyclists and pedestrians that would connect downtown Clinton to its industrial quarter on the south side.

Students in a course in the School of Planning and Public Affairs developed recommendations to "green" downtown Clinton by improving opportunities for cycling.

As part of the ICIGO student organization within the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, students digitized hand made files of the current sewer and water system in Preston, Iowa using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools.