Geodesy & Geomatics Engineering

On Thursday, April 4th, we invite you to join us for the tenth 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 both in person at the Wu Conference Center and 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 and 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 seven geomatics engineering student presentations covering a range of subjects from improving land surveying deliverables in implementation of AI technology for natural disaster management, 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.

Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering - Room 217

8:20 a.m. | Opening remarks

8:30 a.m. | Supplementing legal survey plans for virtual home buyers
Zac Economou, David Fox and Spenser Sawler

9 a.m. | Vessel orientation tracker
Isabelle Emery, Janica Johnson and Anneliese Lassen

9:30 a.m. | Surface water ocean topography for near-coastal water level measurements
Martin Ugochukwu

10 a.m. | Break

10:15 a.m. | Viability of aerial GPR for infrastructure planning
Clyde Rafuse, Erik Speziale and Nathaniel Tubb

10:45 a.m. | The next step for crop rotations; Using satellite interferometry for predictive analysis
Riley Hughes, Cody O'Neill and Jordan Rees

11:15 a.m. | QuickAssess AI; Automation of the property assessment process
Rylan Matchett, Cordell Paul and Graham Mathers

11:45 a.m. | The future of earthquake damage detection; Using AI to detect damages with off-nadir satellite imagery
Aidan Barrieau, Samuel McNally and Alia Nielsen

12:15 p.m. | Awards presentation and closing remarks

Judges

• Mackenzie Dale - Legal Surveys Manager - Property Services Branch, NBDTI
• Colin Lang - GIS Analyst - J.D. Irving
• Katie LeBlanc - Acting Chair - New Brunswick Branch, CIG
• Constantino Solano - Director of Customer Services - Teledyne Geospatial

Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering - Room 217

Sponsors

• 1st Place - CIG - $1000
• 2nd Place - Tulloch - $750
• 3rd Place - McElhanney - $500
• ANBLS Award - $500