How To Register For Uf Sustanability Capstone

Senior Capstone

DCP 4290 | Process & Procedures

The Sustainability and the Congenital Environment (SBE) Program views DCP 4290, our mentored Senior Capstone class, and its student-led projection, as the nigh constructive style to nurture the passion and innovation in our students using the tools, skills, and knowledge earned throughout their college career with united states. An SBE Senior Capstone project serves as a commemoration of sorts and a culminating experience delivering a polished production that showcases student abilities and readiness for the chore market. While the DCP blueprint disciplines create a portfolio of their studio work, our SBE students might view their Senior Capstone equally a way to share the art and science of critical thinking and interdisciplinary problem solving as they explore the opportunities and constraints around a challenge of sustainability and the built environment of involvement to them.

What to Expect | Mentors

SBE Senior Capstone mentors provide a securely valued service to our students and the plan overall. While often kinesthesia and staff inside the College of Blueprint, Construction, and Planning, mentors may originate from other teaching, research, outreach, and/or operational units beyond the broader University of Florida institution, or fifty-fifty from public, individual, or non-governmental organizations with mutual interests.

Mentors should be skilled in the topical domain of the projection being undertaken by the mentee and be capable and willing to guide their project design, development, deployment, information drove, information assay, and public communication. The typical commitment necessitates mentors engage in the following activities summarized below.

Facilitate periodic mentorship meetings (east.grand., 30-minutes weekly or bi-weekly based on educatee needs);
Support student mentee progress via sporadic asynchronous communications (e.thou., responding to questions, projection troubleshooting);
Attend live, synchronous midterm and final presentations;
Read and offering feedback on the final project paper; and
Provide the SBE programme with a final student grade for the class.

What to Look | Student Mentees

Nosotros congratulate our program seniors for arriving at this final required course in your SBE curricula. A cursory overview of the procedure is provided below. A more in depth caption of, and preparation for, the Senior Capstone projects is provided in the curriculum of DCP 3200 Methods of Inquiry, a core course within the SBE program and a pre-requisite for the Senior Capstone.

Project Initiation

Students are strongly encouraged to identify a project and a mentor at the end of DCP 3200 class or no later on than 2 weeks before the offset of the semester in which they will enroll in the DCP 4290 course. In gild to register for the capstone, a student must consummate the capstone registration form that requires a written description of the proposal along with both the student and mentor signatures.

Public Presentations

Students are required to brand two public project presentations using approved visual support software. The attendees will include each student's mentor, plus bachelor faculty from the SBE Governing Lath, SBE kinesthesia, SBE pupil advisors, and other SBE students.

Midterm Presentation

Approximately halfway through the semester, students are required to make a midterm presentation (10-12 minutes) to describe their progress to date and delineate their adjacent steps to complete their project. After the presentation, an additional 8-x minutes of audience interaction via questions, give-and-take, and feedback will be provided.

Final Presentation

At the cease of the semester just prior to the institutionally scheduled reading days, students are required to brand a concluding presentation (20-25 minutes) to draw their project in total. Later on the presentation, an additional 15-20 minutes of audition interaction via questions, discussion, and feedback will be provided. Students will also share their multimedia vignette with the audition.

Terminal Deliverables

The deliverables outlined below must be submitted no later than two days before the terminal day of class (eastward.grand., on Monday if the concluding day of class is on Midweek). For those students who are applying for High Honors or Highest Honors, the newspaper submitted volition be forwarded every bit your Honors submittal. Run into the UF Gator Cloud Collaboration Tools link below for more data and admission to software services from Microsoft, Google, Dropbox, and others made available for gratuitous to students attending the University of Florida.

Project Paper
- A minimum paper length of 40 pages is expected (inclusive of championship page, outline, abstruse, report torso, tables, figures, and resources). Appendices and related supporting documentations (east.m., survey instrument, raw data nerveless in the field) are welcomed, but do not count toward the minimum page length.
- Sources must be curated, cited (in an author-date style), and cross referenced within the piece of work, alongside a complete list of references included at the terminate.
- The newspaper is submitted in PDF format.
Public Presentations
- Both a midterm and a final presentation volition be delivered using visual back up software which can be archived and shared online. Examples may include the following:
  - ArcGIS StoryMap;
  - Google Slides;
  - Microsoft PowerPoint;
  - Microsoft Sway; or
  - Other alternative service (to be reviewed & pre-approved past SBE kinesthesia).
- Presentations are delivered synchronously to a live audience, in person and/or online (via Zoom), and so as the SBE student may do their public speaking and communication skills.
- The midterm and last presentations are submitted as website URLs for the software service used and/or for the Google Drive link where your slide files are stored.
Spider web-Based Multimedia Vignette
- Each student must prepare a short-format, acoustic, multimedia vignette that engages viewers for iii-5 minutes.
- Vignettes may have i of the following iii forms:
  - An "Abstract" summary of the Senior Capstone project;
  - A "Public Service Announcement (PSA)" to educate viewers about any sustainability and the congenital surround topic of involvement to the pupil; or
  - A "Journeying" story nigh the pupil's experiences at the University of Florida.
- These vignettes volition be archived online and made accessible asynchronously to the general public via a website permalink from an appropriate multimedia software service, such equally the following:
  - Adobe Spark;
  - ArcGIS StoryMap;
  - Microsoft Stream;
  - Vimeo;
  - YouTube;
  - Zoom cloud recording (how to record) (how to manage & share); or
  - Other alternative service (to be reviewed & pre-canonical by SBE kinesthesia).
- The course proper name and number, SBE programme, projection title, student's name and date must exist included at the beginning of the multimedia vignette. At the end of the vignette, admit your mentor and others who contributed to your work.
- The multimedia vignette is submitted as a website URL.

Tools & Forms

Highlighted Projects & Vignettes

Interdisciplinary Specialization | Student Examples

Project Abstract Vignette

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In this five minute SBE Capstone Project Abstract vignette, Ryan Lester (Leap 2021 SBE Interdisciplinary Specialization) explains the opportunities and challenges of public engagement, resilience, and equity in ethnic minority populations of Nantucket, MA. Join him to learn more about the Envision Resilience Nantucket Claiming and the enquiry he conducted with Morris (Marty) Hylton, III in the Preservation Institute: Nantucket (Pivot), one of the nation's oldest, continually operating field schools for historic preservation (circa 1972). Thanks Ryan!

Projection Abstract Vignette

In this three minute SBE Capstone Projection Abstract vignette, Danielle Decosta (Jump 2020 SBE Interdisciplinary Specialization) explains the truthful cost of sunlight in our mod lives. Join her to learn more than nearly how sunlight empowers our bodies and minds, as well as why the greenish building movement focuses this free resource back into buildings to better indoor environmental quality and occupant wellness. Thanks Danielle!

Public Service Announcement (PSA) Vignette

In this iv minute SBE Senior Capstone Public Service Announcement (PSA) vignette, Tiffany Stewart (Spring 2020 SBE Interdisciplinary Specialization) provides a cursory introduction on sustainable food systems, nutrient security, and urban agriculture. She ends with a tutorial on how to build your own two-tiered, tabular array-superlative planter box for small space urban herb gardening. Thanks Tiffany!

Geodesign Specialization | Educatee Examples

Projection Addendum Vignette

In this ArcGIS StoryMap SBE Senior Capstone Projection Addendum vignette, Sophia Palombo (Bound 2021 SBE Geodesign Specialization) explores if enterprise zones engender more equitable local redevelopment and revitalization. Join her to learn more well-nigh a simple potential alphabetize for gentrification in Gainesville at the Census tract level. Cheers Sophia!

Project Abstract Vignette

In this three minute SBE Capstone Project Abstruse vignette, Rachel Weber (Jump 2020 SBE Geodesign Specialization) takes u.s. on a virtual bout and describes the North Magnolia Community Redevelopment Area (CRA) in Ocala, Florida. Join her to acquire more about how urban planning and geodesign tin contribute to more than vibrant communities, honoring our by, present, and hereafter. The total ArcGIS StoryMap for the project can exist found here. Cheers Rachel!

Public Service Announcement (PSA) Vignette

In this three minute SBE Senior Capstone Public Service Announcement (PSA) vignette, Jeremy Griffith (Spring 2020 SBE Geodesign Specialization) provides some lessons learned in his time serving as the President of the UF Students for New Urbanism (SNU) organization. If you dream of communities inspired by Jane Jacobs and identify as a NUMTOT, then Jeremy and his SNU coiffure await yous. Cheers Jeremy!

All Students & Projects

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