Mentoring Opportunity

This blog post comes to us from the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. Professor Sanjit Roy is seeking professionals to help with his course "The Integrated Intelligent Detail." I've participated in this program in the past and find it to be a great way to meet the next generation of architects and be involved in their education. Please consider taking some time to help this fantastic students.

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
February 20, 2014

Whether you are a veteran mentor for "Architecture at Morgan", or brand new, I hope you will consider this opportunity to work with our graduate students of architecture.

Architecture at Morgan offers an innovative graduate-level course developed with the support of an NCARB grant known as: "ARCH.541: "The Integrated Intelligent Detail."

Would you be interested in mentoring a student in this course? The course runs from January to May, and the course requires students to investigate architectural detailing by working with a practicing architect as a mentor. The mentor contact with students involves three campus visits, and one or two meetings at your office.

This year the focus will be on the exterior envelope, including at least one fenestration detail. The participating mentor selects a project from their office with an interesting detail (built or proposed). The detail should present some challenges for alternative study by the student. Your student will create a BIM model of the detail, and then transform the detail using their research, design and BIM skills.

If you are able to serve a mentor you will work with 1-2 students guiding them as they develop a wall section/ detail for one of your current projects. You will be presenting the project t the students on either 25 Feb or 4 march, whichever date is convenient for you. Subsequently the students will meet with you at your office as they develop the details under your supervision.

The four on-campus dates that involve the mentors are:

1. Introduction of your architectural project to the class: on one of the following dates:

     a. Tuesday, February 25: 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm (one hour) OR

     b. Tuesday, March 4: 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm (one hour)

2. Tuesday, April 1: individual desk critique between 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm with your student mentee/s (allow about one hour)

3. Tuesday, April 22: individual desk critique between 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm with your student mentee/s (allow about one hour)

4. Tuesday, May 13: 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm FINAL REVIEW OF ALL STUDENT WORK (two hours) hosted at an Architecture office.

Thank you,

Sanjit Roy
Assistant Professor
School of Architecture & Planning
sanjit.roy@morgan.edu
443-228-8777

Ralph Liebing, RA, CSI, CDT

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Ralph Liebing, RA, CSI, CDT, an occasional contributor to this blog. Ralph's weekly per-SPEC-tives email newsletter was welcomed reading in my inbox each Wednesday morning.

Ralph died on February 9, 2014, leaving behind a wife, a daughter, a son and a granddaughter.

Tom Hellmann, AIA, Senior Vice President and Director of Architecture and Interior Design at Hixson Architecture, Engineering and Interiors said, "He was a great associate and even better man." Hear, hear. Ralph's intelligence, humor and home-spun wisdom will be missed by all who knew him. There is a giant hole in construction knowledge left by his passing.

Here is a link to his obituary and final arrangements. http://www.boltonandlunsford.com/obituaries