Meeting Date Changes

In order to maximize your opportunities to visit both the B&N and OSU posts each month, B&N has moved their meeting to April 25th. This will start beginning at 6:00 pm.

Also, the schedule for the remainder of the year has also changed. Please note the new schedule below.

April 18th: OSU - Welding Engineering

April 25th: B&N - Traffic Counting/ Modeling

May 9th: B&N - Bridge Climbing

May 16th: OSU - Roller Coaster Design

June (To Be Announced): B&N - Wetland Tour at OSU Wetlands

Surveying at B&N

Last night our surveying group discussed several methods of surveying. These included using traditional robots, GPS units and aerial photography.

The students went outside with the surveyors and collected survey data (parking lot, curbs, manholes, etc.). This data was then downloaded into the computer and plotted in AutoCAD.

Most of the discussion involved GPS satellites. Here are a couple of links relating to the information presented last night.

Trimble
National Ocean Service Education

Next month we will be counting traffic and using computer simulations to model traffic flow. More details to follow.