Geodesy & Geomatics Engineering

On April 3rd, 2025, 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, Raymund Cronin, Mackenzie Dale and Travis Hamilton 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, McElhanney provided $750 for the second-place winners, Teledyne 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): Training AI to see the invisible: Data augmentation for hyperspectral image classification - Matthew Blackmore, Sophie LeGresley and Grant Milczarek

2nd ($750): 3D digital twin for thermal mapping: Monitoring UNB campus - Florence Berube, Colin Richardson and Anna Sullivan

3rd ($500): Marvel Indoor Sonar Tracker (MIST) - Kelden Ghalay, Zachary Major, Norbu Samdrup

ANBLS Award ($500): Training AI to see the invisible: Data augmentation for hyperspectral image classification - Matthew Blackmore, Sophie LeGresley and Grant Milczarek

Best Poster: Above Ground Biomass Prediction using Sentinel-2 and GEDI Data - Matthew Heffernan, Kevin Lee and Jian Wang