布莱尔(B.S.C.E. 他将科学应用于现实世界，做出积极的改变，以此回馈他称之为家的城市。
“I chose to study at 威尼斯人娱乐城 because I live in Kansas City and Kansas City's my home,” Blair said.
布莱尔选择专注于两个截然不同的领域，主修土木工程，辅修环境可持续性。 这次合作为他提供了一个机会，让他了解到设计应对气候危机的系统的有趣交叉点。
“Engineers are the ones that create the systems that our society is built on," he said. "By adding environmental sustainability, it adds this extra nuance of how we design our systems intelligently to accommodate for a growing population.”
Blair is now a transportation planner at HDR, which he describes as a dual role where he’s part engineer and part transportation and community planner.
“Going to school in a university inside of the city, there's just so much more opportunity and employment available than a college town,” Blair said.
比尔·约德（Bill Yord）是科学与工程学院的兼职教授，也是堪萨斯城地区交通管理局（Kansas City Area Transportation Authority）的高级项目经理。他说，作为堪萨斯城有轨电车南线延长线的公用事业经理，他能够让堪萨斯城大学的学生参与到这个项目中来。
“The students provided a voice for 威尼斯人娱乐城 with the streetcar extension,” Yord said.
学生参与重大城市项目（如有轨电车扩建）的能力有其好处，特别是当涉及到为学生准备现实世界的经验时。
“Engineering is a team sport," Yord said. "It’s designing the project but it’s also who you are designing the project for and the larger community and so the students got a real-world experience of what engineering really is.”
There’s also benefits to studying engineering specifically in Kansas City.
“We have a lot of engineering power in Kansas City, and students have the benefit for that community for jobs, guidance and opportunities,” Yord said.
由于这些经历，学生们能够在课堂外学习到对他们的职业生涯至关重要的技能。
“With our senior design project, we worked with KCATA, and the great thing about it was that we got to work with our client and interact with them directly, which provided a lot of really great real-world experience as opposed to just theoretical classroom experience,” Blair said.
“I really am proud to be a Roo," Blair said. "I'm proud to graduate from Kansas City and I'm really proud to know that I'm making a difference in the city that I live in and love so much.”