BID GROUP

I did two work terms (Sep 2019 – Dec 2019 and Apr 2018 – Aug 2018) at BID Group, a lumbermill construction company with a unique holistic approach; doing design, manufacturing, and construction all in-house to construct lumbermills across the United States and Canada for companies such as Canfor, West Fraser, and Georgia Pacific.

 I was blessed with a very helpful supervisor and soon was creating structural models and 2D construction drawings all on my own. During my second work term I was happy to return to BID and use the experience and confidence I had gained in my first work term to work on larger projects. At BID I developed the skills to read construction documents, give useful input during project meetings, do engineering calculations, create structural models, and manage revisions to designs.

I designed components of lumbermills including steel walkways & stairs, machine frames, crane frames, conveyor belts, chain conveyors, and augers. I also created engineering drawings in AutoCAD and scrubbed drawings before they were sent to the shop or site to be manufactured.

Below is collection of some of my work:

UBC Baja

I had the pleasure to be a member of UBC Baja for three years. UBC Baja is a student design team fully comprised of undergraduate students who design, manufacture, and compete annually at Baja SAE competitions across the states. Every two years the team builds an off road four wheel vehicle from scratch excluding the engine and then race it in a variety of event culminating in a continuous four hour finale race in which teams have to repair their vehicles on the fly to get them back on the course in a competition to complete the most laps possible. 

I had a blast during my time on the team and got to work on many super cool projects:

• Designed gearbox for off-road BAJA vehicle – used excel for calculations and SolidWorks to model gearbox   and create engineering drawings for CNC machining. 

• Designed brake system for the vehicle, using MATLAB

• Wrote and presented “shark tank” sales pitch for SAE competitions in Oregon, California, and New York; covering the manufacturing, sales & distribution, marketing, and financials in a mass production scenario

UBC Mechanical Engineering

I have done many interesting projects during my degree at UBC some of the most notable are:

• Capstone Project with DFO and GWA to design and manufacture a fish sorter for the fishwheel and truck transport salmon conservation effort at the Big Bar landslide location. The project is still ongoing but my team has designed a computer vision system that identifies fish length and species and sorts them. 

• Gait analysis using motion tracking and custom built MATLAB program to estimate orthopedic loads during walking.

• Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR) prototype for use by paramedics during Covid Pandemic. Included full design prosses including stakeholder interviews, testing procedures, and failure analysis.

• RC hover craft that had to navigate a race course.

• Automated train cart that had to operate safely on track without any user input.

• Engineering Management Class competition in which groups competed against each other in a simulated market place to make the most profitability bike store, over an extended period of time and reacting to the position of the competition as the simulation progressed.