Mentor Areas
- Architectural design
- Building construction
- Business, corporate identification and manufacturing
- material science
- environmenal scence
Description:
Building Labor, Social Justice, and Material Supply Chains - Identifying Forced Labor in the Construction Industry
is a project funded by the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) that seeks to identify the material supply chain for building industry products, especially those produced for ground covers ( astroturf, geotextiles, rubber safety surface, plastic lumber, and permeable pavers). I am hoping to work with two undergraduate students with interest and knowledge of design and/or building. One student is also asked to contribute their skills from Wharton that would help us in tracing company locations, registrations, and manufacturing sites in the United States and abroad. In addition, we are looking to identify a second undergraduate student who has experience in environmental science that could help us identify the material chemistry of the very same products listed above. The research project involves roughly 5 to 10 hours of research a week, students are paid for all of their time and students are free to work at their own schedule. Employment is immediate. The project also involves cooperating with landscape architects MNLA in New York City.
Preferred Qualifications
Students with skills in design, the built environment, business, and/ or environmental science, material chemistry.
Project Website
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Details:
Preferred Student Year
First-year, Second-Year, Junior
Academic Term
Fall, Spring, Summer
I prefer to have students start during the above term(s).Volunteer
No
Yes indicates that faculty are open to volunteers.Paid
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to paying students they engage in their research, regardless of their work-study eligibility.Work Study
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to hiring work-study-eligible students.