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Education Notebook: Field trips bring lessons to life for Purdue Fort Wayne students
A Purdue University Fort Wayne instructor isn’t keeping his lessons confined to the classroom.
Jeremy Milliman, a limited-term lecturer in civil engineering, incorporates field trips into the semester. Destinations this academic year have included a project on Bass Road, the planetarium under construction at Science Central and Brooks Construction’s asphalt plant, a news release said.
“My goal for the students is to see and experience practical application of things they learn about in class,” Milliman said in a statement, adding that helps make the content more interesting and practical.
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