Originally Posted by mjones34 
I am a senior in Civil Engineernig AND I work at facilities on campus. First of all, only a professionally liscensed engineer can sign off on any design documents. To be a P.E. you must have four years experience. This would rule out all undergrad and grad students. Secondly, our professors would have no time to spend on designs for this. Thirdly, our in-house architects only do projects in house under the capital limit. (
ISU's is 25,000 bucks). It takes a couple years to even go from the conceptual phase to the preliminary design (where the public actually hears about it). WE only have a couple in house engineers, and they spend ALL their time making sure existing structures are functioning properly. This project will always be outsourced because its impossible otherwise.
I agree as well. I was assuming that they would be overseen by licenced arch and eng who would eventually sign the drawings. This wouldn't require most of those working on it to be licenced, which would allow students to become involved... Possible but not likely or feasible.
