Geodesy & Geomatics Engineering

On April 4th, 2024, the University of New Brunswick’s annual Engineering Design Symposium took place. The symposium is the culmination of two terms of work for undergraduate Engineering students in their capstone design course typically taken in the last year of their studies.

Held in a hybrid format at the Wu Conference Center, this year’s symposium featured work from each Engineering discipline, including seven presentations by teams of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering (GGE) students. In addition, the students developed posters showcasing their projects for visitors to read during refreshment breaks throughout the day.

We would like to thank Katie LeBlanc, Colin Lang, Mackenzie Dale and Constantine Solano for their time and service as judges for the GGE presentations. We are also delighted to be able to thank our sponsors for providing prize money for the top three presentations: $1000 from the CIG Canadian Institute of Geomatics went to the first-place winners, Tulloch provided $750 for the second-place winners, McElhanney donated $500 for the third-place winners and Association of New Brunswick Land Surveyors donated $500 for the ANBLS Award.

In addition, the department has one additional award that was presented: the Best Poster Award, based on the poster’s clarity and visual appeal.

1st ($1000): The future of earthquake damage detection; Using AI to detect damages with off-nadir satellite imagery Aidan Barrieau, Samuel McNally and Alia Nielsen

2nd ($750): Viability of aerial GPR for infrastructure planning Clyde Rafuse, Erik Speziale and Nathaniel Tubb

3rd ($500): QuickAssess AI; Automation of the property assessment process Rylan Matchett, Cordell Paul and Graham Mathers

ANBLS award ($500): Supplementing legal survey plans for virtual home buyers Zac Economou, David Fox and Spenser Sawler

Best poster: The next step for crop rotations; Using satellite interferometry for predictive analysis Riley Hughes, Cody O'Neill and Jordan Rees