Projects
Scolar Projects:Subdivision Design This project was assigned to me as my final major project. The goal is to have a complete subdivision design ready to pass in to my survey instructor. The area for the subdivision is within Mapleton Park in Moncton, NB (the project is just a simulation, we are not going to place a subdivision in a park). Since there are no plans of the park itself, the plans for all subdivisions, highways and building developments were gathered and placed together to give us the required area. I am still in that stage of piecing them together, and should be done very soon.The subdivision also requires all the necessary roads, services and easements. The lots will also be placed in the final plan. Service New Brunswick Plan Data Entry This project was assigned in my Geographical Information Systems (GIS) class. The goal is to assume that I am working for Service New Brunswick and will be receiving subdivision plans from individuals and corporations and enter them into the Caris network using Caris 4.4a. In doing this assignment, the instructor will be teaching the procedures to completing a GIS project using Caris. Personal Projects:Home Page The results of this project are evident, and is quite for completion. Throughout this project though, I have learned many of the basics to web page design and some advanced features, such as creating effects like the buttons along the left-hand of this page. The purpose of this page is to aide my personal goals of establishing a name within the industry, both in Survey Engineering (Civil Engineering, Geomatics) and in Computer Technology.Turbo Timer This is a promise I gave a friend that I would do for him. The problem I realized after making this promise is that Turbo Timers are almost inexistant and are unknown by most mechanics and automobile technicians. To briefly explain a Turbo Timer, one must understand some fundamentals of performance autmotive parts. In present day, many cars have pieces of machinery working within the engines called turbos. They are basically a large wheel spinning at very high speeds. The spinning of this wheel creates large amounts of pressure within the engine. This pressure causes the engine to work faster and giving the car greater power. You can often tell whether a car has a turbo when the engine switches gears and a large whoosh sound comes from the engine. That is the pressure built up in the engine released through the blow-off valve. The problem with turbos is that the high speed the wheel spins at causes a lot of friction which will cause it to heat up, up to a point where it will glow. This is quite normal for a turbo to do this, but it will need a long time to cool down. If the person driving the car drives the car hard and heats the turbo to a point like this, then turns off the engine, the turbo will cool down to quickly resulting in a cracked turbo. This person will now have a damaged turbo. Turbo Timers are designed to stop this damage by allowing the car to stay on when the person turns the car off. By this, I mean that when the person turns off the key, gets out, locks the door and walks away, the engine is still running. The turbo timer will keep the engine running for a period of time specified by the car owner to allow the turbo to cool down. The turbo timer I am building is a simple circuit board design built around a timing chip. All that a person will be able to see of it is a button, a light, and a time-selecting switch. The turbo timers I have found sold by companies involve a large screen, diagnostics on many components of the engine and has several buttons and could cost up to $400-$1,000. The circuit board I am building can cost a minimum of $30. A price many car-enthusiasts can afford over the company-placed products. |