It's not every day that a client asks an architect to make room for a dirt yard in its plans for a high-tech facility. But, then, the diesel technology department at San Diego Miramar College, a public two-year school in the northern portion of the county, is not your everyday client. This one-of-a-kind program trains students to service and maintain diesel-powered trucks, tractors, and heavy equipment, using cutting-edge technologies for component analysis and real-time problem solving. A dirt testing yard is their proving ground. 'Students use it to practice operating the machinery they've worked on,' explains Dan Wilkie, the program's chair.
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