Geodesy & Geomatics Engineering

On Thursday, April 8, we invite you to join us for the annual Engineering Design Symposium.

A culmination of two-terms’ work for the students in their capstone design courses including GGE 4700, the symposium will be held virtually. We invite you to register and take part.

The symposium will showcase the design work of approximately 300 final-year engineering students in the product design course and in the disciplinary capstone design courses. Many of the projects are sponsored by local governments, companies and non-profit organizations and span the disciplines of chemical, civil, electrical & computer, geological, geomatics, mechanical and software engineering. Students will present their work in parallel sessions throughout the day and videos of prototype developments will be on display.

There will be nine geomatics engineering student presentations covering a range of subjects from digital field notes to monitoring salmon habitat and as usual we will have the Canadian Institute of Geomatics Student Paper Competition. As well as the oral presentations, there will also be posters for viewing.

This will be an excellent opportunity for alumni and future employers to see the engineering design capability of our senior students and the potential that has been realized through four years of study at UNB. We hope to see you there!

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GGE 4700: Geomatics Engineering (Room E)

8:30 a.m. | Welcome to the Engineering Design Symposium (Room F)

9 a.m. | NAIT First Order Survey Network and EDM Calibration Baseline James Heacock, Nicholas Sroka, Noah Thomas, Adam Tracy

9:30 a.m. | UNB Virtual Model: Kaila Reid, Anna Morrison, Ian Anderson, Jordan Major

10 a.m. | Break

10:15 a.m. | Creating a Digital Field Note Application for Terrestrial Surveys Reid Hall, Usama Jamil, Alex Iain Scott, Chedi Mbaga

10:45 a.m. | Evaluating a Method for Estimating Bathymetry from UAV Images Tony Furey, Branden Rankin, Kevin Cheon

11:15 a.m. | Combining Close Range and UAV Imagery To Create Dense Point Clouds In Urban Settings; Taylor Deruiter, Julia Diemert, Elsa Dumontet

11:45 a.m. | An Analysis of Errors Associated with Centering a GNSS System on a Range Pole; Adam Bursey, Daniel Grogan, Brandon Boutcher

12:15 p.m. | Lunch

1:15 p.m. | Implementation of VLP-16 3D Laser Scanner with an Echoboat for Object Detection; Tim Soper, Kyle Tower, Andrew Fraser

1:45 p.m. | The use of Handheld Laser Distance Measuring Tools for Indoor Measurements Patrick Ramsay, Matt McLean, Tyler Wood

2:15 p.m. | Monitoring Salmon Habitat using UAV Technology in Fundy National Park; Karla Brown, Conor Sexton, Lesley Spencer

3 p.m. | Announcement of Winners and Closing Remarks

Supervisors

• R. Kingdon
• M. Sheng
• S. Jabari
• P. Dare
• I. Church

Prizes

• 1st place CIG $1000
• 2nd place McElhanney $700
• 3rd place Teledyne CARIS $500

Judges

• Colin Lang – CIG NB Branch Secretary / Geomatics Analyst, NB 911 Bureau
• Clio Marsh Nikias – Geomatics Analyst, NB 911 Bureau
• Brandon MacDonald – Manager Geomatics (Atlantic), WSP
• Karen Cove – Senior Manager of Products, Teledyne CARIS