Category: Immersive Learning


  • ECAP Students Create Sustainable Outdoor Space at Maplewood Guest House

    Graduate students participating in Kevin Klinger’s “iMade” immersive learning course have designed and installed a new outdoor space at Muncie’s Maplewood Guest House. The new deck, built during spring semester 2023, offers a space for current residents to enjoy the peaceful shade-covered surroundings. Maplewood House provides convenient housing for medical students working in East Central […]

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  • Repurposing Abandoned Properties

    CAP students took on the tough project of collaborating with neighborhood residents to decide which abandoned properties have the most potential for redevelopment in Muncie. The class, Repurposing Abandoned Property, was supported by an Immersive Learning grant and partnered with the Muncie Land Bank. The goal of the class was to create an abandoned property […]

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  • International Course in Construction Management

    More than a year ago, Tamer Breakah, assistant professor of construction management, got a call from a friend in Egypt, Sherif El-Badawy, vice dean for postgraduate studies at Mansoura University. He introduced Breakah to an exciting cultural exchange opportunity for the students. The Institute of International Education’s (IIE) Harnessing Innovation through Virtual Exchange for Enhanced […]

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  • Improving Habitat for Monarchs and Other Pollinators

    Pollinators, which range from the less-than-glamorous flies to showy hummingbirds and butterflies, have established themselves as necessary actors in the reproduction of over 85% of the world’s flowering plants and two-thirds of the world’s crops, including more than 100 crops in the United States.  However, loss of habitat is resulting in decline of these essential […]

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  • Interior Design and Immersive Learning

    Immersive learning is a powerful opportunity for students, community partners, and faculty. Ball State defines immersive learning as high-impact learning that involves collaborative student-driven teams who are guided by faculty mentors. Students earn credit for working with community partners and clients such as businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies to address community challenges through the creation of a product that has a lasting impact. […]

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  • CAP Students Design and Build a House

    2023 Solar Decathlon Build Challenge Since the Summer of 2021 a multi-disciplinary group of Ball State Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning (CAP) students and faculty have ventured into a five-semester-long design and build project for the 2023 Solar Decathlon Build Challenge, an international competition conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy. During this two-year […]

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  • Ball State CAP Celebrated the Future Build of the Eco-Friendly Duplex, Alley House

    R. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning (CAP) hosted a public groundbreaking event on July 13 that celebrated the future construction of an affordable, net-zero energy, sustainable duplex family home in Indianapolis’ Near Eastside designed by a team of CAP students and faculty. The event included several educational stations about the duplex, yard games, and […]

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  • Experiencing CAP Asia

    I first participated in CAP Asia in the Spring of 2005 when I joined Nihal Perera, a faculty member in urban planning, and a group of eighteen students around the middle of their trip. I was arriving to participate in a scheduled two-week building workshop, which was to take place in India, but the plan […]

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  • Glick Center for Glass receives Silver LEED certification

    Janet Fick and students, with support from co-instructor Jim Jones, certified a second campus building — the Glick Center for Glass — through the USGBC’s LEED Lab initiative and received a Silver certification! This is only the 12th building in the world certified through this initiative and Ball State has two buildings here on campus. […]

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