To continue where I left off from the home page, I am, specifically, in my third year of study at the University of Toronto, pursuing a Bachelor of Applied Science and Engineering, with a major in Civil Engineering. Ever since high school, I was interested in the role of coding in an advancing society, especially regarding artifical intelligence and more intelligent cities. My focus shifted towards civil engineering as I became more exposed to the industry. I started noticing more construction projects around my area such as condo development going on nearby. I also started to watch more programs about residential properties and saw how houses can be modelled in 3D softwares before a single piece of dirt is excavated. These models became more intiguing and I also developed a bit of interest in construction when looking at such models. As a result, I decided to apply for the Civil Engineering program at UofT and that's how I ended up here. Throughout my three years at university, I have been exposed to many different softwares, from MatLAB to SAP2000, which helped foster my curiosity with how these programs can be used on a higher level. In my third year, I took both Transport I and Tranpsort II which showed me a less popular, but growing, subset of civil engineering: transpotation engineering. I became very interested in the subject, since it was something that I can see effecting me and my peers on a daily basis. In Transport II, I was introduced to Aimsun Next 22, a software used to create traffic models and simulate various situations, such as traffic incidents and effects of signal timings. As I was exposed to Aimsun and transportation problems, I realize the opportunity that software, and potentially up and coming machine learning, can provide for optimization and a better quality of life. As technology evolves, it is important that the world keeps up and takes full advantage of it. I want to be a part of that change and be responsible for improving society as a whole.
This porfolio includes some of the techincal skills I have developed over the years, including 3D modelling (AutoCAD, SketchUP) and structural analysis (SAP2000). This section gives a brief overview of what I did to develop these skills and how they represent what I want to do in the future.
The transportation engineering section summarizes the steps taken to create a micro model using Aimsun Next 22, a multi-modal modelling tool. Through this project, I learned the basics of creating a small-scale traffic model and the different analyses that can be carried out; this includes setting up OD matrices, conducting shockwave analysis and designing traffic signals using the Webster method. Taking on this project has helped me realize the importance of modelling software in transportation engineering and how it can be used to optimize networks for minimal delays.
In the steel design section, I outline the skills I developed in SAP2000 and general steel design to help create a four storey office building in North York, Ontario, Canada. During this process, I learned the basics of inputting different properties in SAP2000 and using load combinations to determine the governing loads and section design. Learning about SAP2000 helped me realize the importance of being able to do structural analysis calculations quickly. If everything was done by hand, it would take ages to be able to analyze every different possible scenario and determine what the governing load is.
Within the engineering graphics section, you can find some of the projects I worked on when learning more about AutoCAD and SketchUP. To be brief, I learned the fundamentals of using AutoCAD to create 2D models and using SketchUP to create 3D models. Objects designed in these software include steel plates, box girder segments and contour elevations. Learning these software helped me understand how construction plans are created, going from a rough sketch to a 2D model and, eventually, to a 3D visualiztion.
The blender section contains some of the tutorial projects which I completed to understand the basics of the modelling software. I decided to give blender a shot during the COVID-19 pandemic to develop skills in a more "creative" software, in which I could learn some aspects of the designing side of civil engineering. This mostly applies to real estate and home development, but I thought it would be nice to have some of this knowledge in case I would like to pursue a career in that field.