The course uses case-based learning to teach students how to plan, design, and construct infrastructure that goes beyond meeting traditional performance measures to have transformative positive effects on communities and the environment. Students will explore the complex decision-making behind these projects, including unique institutional factors, collaborating across disciplinary boundaries, engaging public and private stakeholders, framing risk and uncertainty based on stakeholder interests, and leveraging multiple funding streams. The infrastructure projects discussed in the course address the technical, financial, social, political, and behavioral challenges students will face in their professional careers.

• Synthesize best practices across diverse case studies and apply these to solve challenges in other project scenarios
• Compare and contrast traditional development and redevelopment practices with those used in transformative infrastructure projects
• Articulate the roles, responsibilities, interests, and perspectives of the diverse stakeholders involved in transformative infrastructure projects
• Communicate persuasively across disciplines and to the public about technical project constraints and goals
• Practice industry best practices for including the public as a collaborative stakeholder

• Tripp Shealy