Come to Spring 2009 DesignExpo!

Kansas State University students seeking careers in the design disciplines will get the chance to meet with prospective employers at DesignExpo, the career fair of the College of Architecture, Planning and Design.

DesignExpo is being held from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Monday, February 23, in the Ballroom of the K-State Student Union.

Event sponsors are the K-State College of Architecture, Planning, and Design and K-State’s Career and Employment Services.

Employers attending DesignExpo are offering full-time employment as well as student academic internship opportunities. They will also be available to visit with students who wish to learn more about the disciplines of architecture, interior architecture and product design, landscape architecture, and regional and community planning, as well as related design fields.

This is the ninth year of this highly successful event and the first during which both fall and spring sessions will be held. The fall session was held in October 2008.

Employers registered to participate in DesignExpo on February 23 are:  360 Architecture, Kansas City, MO; Alamo Architects, San Antonio, TX; BCDM, Omaha, NE; Berger Devine Yaeger, Inc., Kansas City, MO; Black & Veatch, Overland Park, KS; BNIM Architects, Kansas City, MO; BRR Architecture, Merriam, KS; Burns & McDonnell, Kansas City, MO; Cannon Design, St. Louis, MO; Confluence, Kansas City, MO; Cuningham Group Architecture, P.A., Minneapolis, MN; Earthwormjobs.com, Lincoln, NE; Engineering Ministries International, Colorado Springs, CO; FKP Architects, Inc., Dallas, TX; Flad Architects, Madison, WI; Gould Evans, Kansas City, MO; HDR, Inc., Omaha, NE; Health Facilities Group, Wichita, KS; Helix Architecture + Design, Kansas City, MO; HKS, Inc., Dallas, TX; HMC Architects, Ontario, CA; HNTB Corporation, Kansas City, MO; Hoefer Wysocki Architects, LLC, Kansas City, MO; HOK, St. Louis, MO; HOK Sport Venue Event, Kansas City, MO; Hollis + Miller Architects, Overland Park, KS; HTK Architects, P.A., Overland Park, KS; Huckabee and Associates, Fort Worth, TX; IBI Group, Salt Lake City, UT; INVISION Planning, Architecture and Interiors, Waterloo, IA; Jacobs, St. Louis, MO; Klover Architects, Inc., Overland Park, KS; Laguarda Low Architects, Dallas, TX; Lang Lighting Design, Dallas, TX; MATRIX Architects Engineers Planners, Inc., Tulsa, OK; McCluggage Van Sickle & Perry, Wichita, KS; National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, Washington, DC; NSP Architecture, Overland Park, KS; Olsson Associates, Lincoln, NE; Rees Masilionis Turley Architecture, Kansas City, MO; RNL, Denver, CO; Schwerdt Design Group, Inc., Topeka, KS; Scott & Goble Architects, Tulsa, OK; The KTGY Group, Inc., Irvine, CA; TK Architects, Kansas City, MO; Treanor Architects, P.A., Lawrence, KS; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City, MO; WDM Architects, Wichita, KS; and Williams Spurgeon Kuhl & Freshnock Architects, Inc., North Kansas City, MO.

The event planning committee includes the following students:  Daniel Gensch and Adam Wagoner, fifth-year architecture; Elizabeth Cordes and Tim Sherman, fifth-year interior architecture and product design; Anthony Fox and Amy Shaffer, fifth-year landscape architecture; Karina Perez-Fajardo, fourth-year architecture; Paul Megli and Jason Rivera, third-year architecture; Lydia Palma and Amanda Phelps, third-year interior architecture and product design; Russell Ploutz and Jonathan Ryan, third-year landscape architecture; and David Vogel, post-baccalaureate master of landscape architecture.

Faculty and staff on the planning committee include:  Wendy Ornelas, professor, architecture, and associate dean of the College of Architecture, Planning and Design; Donna Fullmer, assistant professor, interior architecture and product design; Melanie Klein, assistant professor, landscape architecture/regional and community planning; Karl Kandt, assistant director, and Mary Ewing, area assistant, K-State Career and Employment Services; Bruce Broce, Director of Development, College of Architecture, Planning and Design, KSU Foundation; and Diane Potts, Assistant to the Dean, College of Architecture, Planning and Design.

More information is available online at www.capd.ksu.edu/designexpo or by contacting CAPD@ksu.edu, 785.532.1090