TOWN OF ROME, Wis. (WSAU) — Students and instructors from Mid-State Technical College’s Civil Engineering department spent some time helping a proposed golf course take shape.
Six students and two instructors spent nine hours last month touring and doing readings at the Sand Valley Golf Resort in the town of Rome. Associate Dean Gary Kilgas says students worked to start a topographical analysis of the facility. “We shot over 5800 points out there, and provided some meaningful data including where parking lots are going, where proposed roadways are going to end up.”
Kilgas says these sorts of public-private partnerships are crucial to a place like MSTC because it gives students the real-world experience they’ll be using one they move to find a job. “These opportunities don’t come along all that often, where they’ve got an opportunity to go do some measurements and get some real life experience, so they can build a better golf course in this case.” He says that Sand Valley’s terrain and location will offer more than enough challenge for the students in their studies. “There’s places at Sand Valley where the sand is over 200 feet deep. So it’s really nice for them to have some topographical information that they can utilize for the construction of the courses, and where they’re going to put the clubhouse and lodging and roadways.”
Kilgas says MSTC and the owners of Sand Valley are planning more partnerships and internships in the long run as the construction on the course continues.
