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Professor Murray discusses the Bailout fireman rescue device from the Daapworks show

to student Simon LeC|erc and his colleague from LPK, former student Eric Sillies, while

entrepreneur John Spencer looks on.

within the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Murray is almost reverent when discussing the
Planning (DAAP). And in Murray’s world, it has value of the co-op program, in which students
multiple meanings. Beyond building sustainability alternate semesters studying on campus with
principles into the core of his teaching philosophy working in their chosen fields, thus accumulating
and curriculum, he feels a combination of factors real-world, hands-on experience while earning

have a self-sustaining effect on the design program, money to help pay for college. UC invented co-
DAAP and UC in how their students and graduates op when Herman Schneider, then dean of the

are prepared for success. engineering college, introduced the practice in

1906. Today, five colleges offer or require co-op in

Further undergirding Murray’s outlook on his true their undergraduate degree programs, and UC is
purpose and professional satisfaction is his own recognized as a leader in the field.

“sustainability” in the form of a second chance at life

following a dire illness nine years ago that redirected “My first assignment was with a consultancy called
his work and reconfigured his priorities. Richardson Smith in Columbus,” Murray recalled,

“and I was their very first co-op. They let me work

His professional journey led him to spend more than alongside their design guys, my sketches were put up
two decades in industrial design in cosmopolitan in meetings, they threw great parties...

Chica o and San Francisco after earnin his I was hooked.

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his Hamilton, Ohio, home. His springboard was “Once they were going to work a boat show in
cooperative education — not coincidentally his Chicago and had an extra seat on their company
programs and UC’s strategic advantage. plane. So there I was on this six-passenger plane,

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