This year for our summer outing, the team from AR Engineering convened at our office for yard games and a delicious catered taco bar. The weather was absolutely perfect, and we enjoyed meeting a recent four-legged addition to the AR team, as Andrew and his family introduced their new puppy. We have also had a couple new births in the last few months, as well as recent employee hires so it was great to get to know them better and meet their families. We are always appreciative of this opportunity to get together with family and enjoy a beautiful late summer evening. However, we were so busy enjoying our time together that we failed to snap a single picture so please enjoy this cute taco cartoon in lieu of a picture of our staff and families.
ASCE Scholarship Golf Outing
On August 9th, AR Engineering participated in the annual SW Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Golf Outing. It was a beautiful day for golf at The Lynx Golf Club in Otsego, Michigan. This annual event helps to support the Western Michigan University chapter of ASCE and this year the event raised $3,000 for the WMU civil engineering scholarship program and to support the WMU Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge Teams. AR Engineering’s Team of Sam Kindermann, Brian Chobot, Thom Carpenter and Luke Macleay recorded a respectable six under par for their round.
Southwest MiSTEM Growlers Game
A team from AR Engineering participated in Education Day at Homer Stryker Field, with Luke Macleay, Montserrat Tejeda MIrambeaux , Andrew Woloszyk and Spencer O’Dell arriving early to set-up for the day! Students from local school districts arrived eager to explore various hands-on exhibits and were excited about building sandcastles, which demonstrated mechanically stabilized earth (MSE). Students were encouraged to build a non-MSE sandcastle and an MSE sandcastle, and then drop the hammer on both to see the difference in strength provided by the fabric reinforcement. The morning activities wrapped up at 11 AM with everyone invited to attend the Growler’s game.
WMU 2024 Spring Capstone Projects
AR Engineering was proud to sponsor two WMU Civil Engineering Capstone Project for the 2024 Spring Semester. Their project involved a multi-family residential development and commercial car wash facility in Kalamazoo County. The students got to develop skills from these two challenging projects and will benefit from them in the workforce. AR Engineering extends its congratulations to Stiven Reci, Ethan Prescott, and John Perry, and Ali Hassan, Kiara Warburton, Diego Fuentes and Keeton Bigham-Tsai - they did a fantastic job on their presentation!
AR Team Celebrates KVCC Graduation
On Tuesday, April 23, 2024 the AR Team celebrated with cake and ice cream, as Luke Macleay graduated from Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC) with his Associate’s Degree. Luke participated in the Early/Middle College program, allowing him to graduate from KVCC one year after completing his senior year in high school. Luke will work full time for AR Engineering this summer and part-time in the fall when he will begin attending Western Michigan University to pursue a degree in Civil Engineering.
