Architecture, Manufacturing , Natural Resources and Agriculture

The resources and tools found within this community have been designed and curated to support students who are interested in fields related to Architecture, Manufacturing, Natural Resources, and Agriculture. This community covers three main industry areas:

  1. Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources – this includes occupations where professionals work to produce, manage, sell, and protect agricultural goods, as well as other environmental and green careers.
  2. Architecture and Construction – Professionals within these industries leverage design, planning and management skills to build and maintain structures such as buildings, homes, bridges, or machinery.
  3. Manufacturing – Occupations involve planning, managing, and performing the processing of materials into intermediate or final products and the related professional and technical support activities such as production planning and control, maintenance and manufacturing, and process engineering.

You are welcome to engage with as many pathways as you would like! Take time to review the community – check out the articles and blog posts and explore the resources to learn more about these industries. You will also find things you can do now, like joining a related student organization or getting involved with a professional association, to explore and develop relevant skills and knowledge.

Crafting An Architecture Portfolio – Workshop Summary and Recording

On Monday, September 9, 2024 the Career Connections Center hosted a workshop covering the fundamentals for creating an effective architecture portfolio that could be used in a job or internship search process. The portfolio is a critical piece of the …

By Gabby Diaz-Portalatin
Gabby Diaz-Portalatin Career Pathways Coach
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AI Impacts on Manufacturing: Innovations for Inventory Management

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems for manufacturing, which began in the 1960s to help with basic inventory management, are on the brink of transformative changes due to the integration of artificial intelligence (AI). Over the next decade, AI is expected …

By Gabby Diaz-Portalatin
Gabby Diaz-Portalatin Career Pathways Coach
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What it’s like to be a Chief Sustainability Officer Today

Chief Sustainability Officer, a role once seen as marginal to organizations, has become an integral piece of corporate strategy. The evolution of the CSO role, driven by regulatory pressures, consumer demand, and shareholder activism requires those assuming (and aspiring) to …

By Gabby Diaz-Portalatin
Gabby Diaz-Portalatin Career Pathways Coach
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Crafting Your Niche: Strategies for Academic and Professional Specialization (Workshop Summary and Recording)

During this workshop held on Monday 7/22, Manager for Career Pathways, Gabby, explains strategies for students to develop skills outside their major through minors, certificates, online courses, and experiential learning opportunities like research, jobs, and organizations. She emphasizes using tools …

By Gabby Diaz-Portalatin
Gabby Diaz-Portalatin Career Pathways Coach
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5 Tips for Using Gator CareerLink to Maximize Your Job Search 

Learn how to supercharge your job search in Gator CareerLink’s powerful tools and features. Discover essential tips to Maximize your chances of landing the perfect job with these essential tips!

By following these tips, you can effectively navigate Gator CareerLink …

By Peter Mcclary
Peter Mcclary
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Alumni Connections

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Hal Knowles

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  • Gainesville, Florida
  • Instructional Assistant Professor University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning
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  • North Florida Land Trust
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  • Driver Down To Earth
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  • Professor of Biology Doran Consulting
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  • Co-President AgAmerica
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LinkedIn Learning

Creating Construction Documents with Revit

Taught by Rina Sahay
If you’re trying to get the hang of Autodesk Revit, there’s nothing like building a real-world model. In this course,…

Sustainability for Design, Construction, and Manufacturing

Taught by Fulya Kocak
Design, construction, and manufacturing are vital industries, but have you wondered about ways to make them sustainable while adding value?…

AutoCAD 2024 Essential Training

Taught by Shaun Bryant
AutoCAD 2024 is a powerful design and drafting software application used to create precise 2D and 3D designs. In this…

After Effects Apprentice: 06 Type and Music

Taught by Trish Meyer
One of the cornerstones of motion graphics is creating and animating type. In this course, Trish Meyer shows how to…

After Effects Compositing: 2 Matching Foreground to Background

Taught by Mark Christiansen
Creating a moving shot that is made up of disparate elements and looks as though it was taken all at…

After Effects Compositing: 5 Rotoscoping & Edges

Taught by Mark Christiansen
So you’ve decided to rotoscope. Performing a “roto,” an animated selection with masking and paint tools, is time consuming, but…

After Effects Compositing: 3 Advanced Matching and Looks

Taught by Mark Christiansen
Compositing is all about matching, and in this course we go beyond the fundamentals of matching foreground and background, into…

After Effects Apprentice: 09 Expressions

Taught by Trish Meyer
Expressions are one of the most powerful but underused features in After Effects. They can be used to animate layer…

After Effects Apprentice: 07 Parenting

Taught by Trish Meyer
Parenting is a way to group multiple layers within the same composition inside After Effects. In this course, Chris Meyer…

After Effects Apprentice: 10 Time Games

Taught by Trish Meyer
Discover how to manipulate time in After Effects. Author Chris Meyer shows how to stop, slow, and speed up footage,…

After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control

Taught by Trish Meyer
In this installment of After Effects Apprentice, Chris Meyer focuses on ways to edit and enhance layers in After Effects…

The Power of PreViz at One & Co

Taught by Richard Koci Hernandez
In this installment of The Power of PreViz, Dane Howard meets with the leaders of One & Co, an industrial…

Webflow Collections and CMS

Taught by Jen Kramer
With Webflow CMS, you can add a database behind your Webflow interface to efficiently manage Webflow apps and content. Learn…

After Effects Apprentice: 11 3D Space

Taught by Trish Meyer
This installment of the After Effects Apprentice series introduces 3D space in Adobe After Effects. Authors Chris and Trish Meyer…

After Effects Apprentice: 13 Paint Roto and Puppet

Taught by Trish Meyer
In this course, Trish and Chris Meyer introduce a series of creative tools inside Adobe After Effects. The centerpiece is…

After Effects Apprentice: 14 Shape Layers

Taught by Trish Meyer
In this course, author Chris Meyer shows how to create and animate vector-based artwork directly inside Adobe After Effects. The…

After Effects Apprentice: 02 Basic Animation

Taught by Trish Meyer
Trish Meyer leads beginners through a gentle introduction to Adobe After Effects: from creating a new project and importing sources,…

After Effects Apprentice: 03 Advanced Animation

Taught by Trish Meyer
In this course, Chris Meyer helps beginning After Effects artists take their animations to the next level. Chris shows how…

After Effects Apprentice: 01 Pre-Roll

Taught by Trish Meyer
This short course is designed for those who have never used Adobe After Effects, or those who might need a…

The Power of PreViz at BMW Group DesignworksUSA

Taught by Richard Koci Hernandez
PreViz, or previsualization, harnesses the power of visual preplanning in envisioning and designing products and workflows before prototyping begins. In…

Career Resources

Hi, Gators! In this short video I walk you through creating a winning resume from scratch. All you need to …

UT Austin provides a thorough guide to developing an architecture portfolio from scratch using Adobe InDesign.

This guide provides information for portfolios that are used by those in architecture and related fields. The primary focus is …

The Eight Semester Career Readiness Guide is a resource to keep you on track. Use
this resource to be intentional …

Career Paths for Civil Engineers

This brochure outlines possible career paths for civil engineers working in public agencies, academia, consulting, industry, and construction.

Explore opportunities at the Environmental Protection Agency and resources to support you through the application process.

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