Geodesy & Geomatics Engineering

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On Thursday, April 3, we invite you to join us for the eleventh 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 six geomatics engineering student presentations covering a range of geospatial topics from advancements in instrumentation to improved prediction and modelling capabilities. 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.

Program schedule | Room 204

8:20 a.m. | Opening remarks

8:30 a.m. | Effectiveness of galileo high accuracy service for positioning in tree canopy coverage

9 a.m. | Marvel indoor sonar tracker (MIST)

9:30 a.m. | 3D digital twin for thermal mapping: Monitoring UNB campus
Florence Berube, Colin Richardson and Anna Sullivan

10 a.m. | Break

10:15 a.m. | Optimizing culvert scans using modelar
Logan Kennedy, Scott Morrison and Scott Whitters

10:45 a.m. | Above ground biomass prediction using sentinel-2 and GEDI data
Matthew Heffernan, Kevin Lee and Jian Wang

11:15 a.m. | Training AI to see the invisible: Data augmentation for hyperspectral image classification
Matthew Blackmore, Sophie LeGresley and Grant Milczarek

11:45 a.m. | Awards presentation and closing remarks

Judges

• David Coleman – Professor Emeritus – University of New Brunswick
• Mackenzie Dale – Legal Surveys Manager – Property Services Branch, NBDTI
• Katie LeBlanc – Acting Chair – New Brunswick Branch, CIG
• Travis Hamilton – Product Manager – Teledyne Geospatial

Sponsors

• 1st Place - CIG - $1,000
• 2nd Place - McElhanney - $750
• 3rd Place - Teledyne - $500
• ANBLS Award - $500

Faculty and academic mentors

• Ian Church
• Shabnam Jabari
• Rakesh Mishra
• Michael Sheng
• Yun Zhang

Industry partners

New Brunswick Department of Transportation and Infrastructure
Modelar