Twenty-four Mississippi State building construction science students spent their summer designing and constructing a building that will serve as a modular fabrication shop for their department during upcoming renovations on campus.
The students were part of MSU Assistant Professor Mohsen Garshasby’s first-year summer session studio—a fast-paced, compact option available to incoming BCS majors. The course included a lecture, or technical, portion that went hand-in-hand with the building, or fabrication.
Studio A, which was taught in June, focused on drawings, construction documents, blueprints, design process and building materials. Fabrication work included the foundation and framing up to the sheathing aspect of the building. In July, Studio B’s classroom focus was building systems—wall, roof and floor systems—as well as doors, windows and interior finishes. Also included was insulation, cladding systems and roof work.
The structure is providing an additional hands-on project for students in this semester’s mechanical electrical class, who are running electrical wire and potentially plumbing to finalize the shop.
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Students in the course include:
BRANDON—Walker D. Floyd, junior
CANTON—Erin F. McInnis, junior
CAPE CORAL, Florida—Samantha A. Kral, sophomore
CLEVELAND—William A. Havens, junior
CORINTH—Warner A. Michael, junior
DECATUR—Griffin L. Bailey, senior and John G. Hollingsworth, sophomore
FLOWOOD—Silas L. Clark, sophomore
GULFPORT—Matthew D. Christensen, sophomore and Yates Q. Symmes, sophomore
HATTIESBURG—Ryan H. Boleware, junior
HERNANDO—Zach A. Dennie, senior and Tyler M. Pearson, senior
HOUSTON—Gavin W. Caples, senior
MADISON—James R. Wooten, sophomore
MEDINA, Tennessee—Jenna P. Nunnery, sophomore
NATCHEZ—Ayden E. Rojo, senior
NICEVILLE, Florida—Nathan D. Rauch, sophomore
OLIVE BRANCH—Jace C. Dixon, sophomore and Nicholas T. Henry, junior
RIDGELAND—Cole R. Mullen, sophomore
STARKVILLE—William “Will” A. Barefield, sophomore
WEST POINT—Edward “Cameron” Dill, senior
WILSONVILLE, Alabama—Levi J. Watkins, junior
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