Modelling Geothermal Resource

As part of my Honours thesis, I looked into how MCMC simulations could be used for parameter tuning geothermal models of the Wotten-Waven geothermal reservoirs in Dominica.

• For: The University of Auckland
• Date: April - October 2016
• Tools Used: Python, TOUGH2, and emcee

Foolsgold

Foolsgold is an R package that is under development that brings together a large number of personal R functions that I personally find useful.

More information about the package can be found at foolsgold.

• For: Personal Project
• Date: Started July 2017 - ongoing
• Tools Used: R

Wind Turbine Design

As part of my undergraduate degree we were required to design and build a functioning wind turbine, that would be tested in the University's twisted flow wind tunnel. Using basic fluid dynamic knowledge, a set of heuristics and some computational fluid dynamics simulators, we wrote Matlab code to iteratively improve airfoil designs to our match target specifications. We then built the wind turbine out of laser cut perspex, wrappings and a metal hub.

• For: The University of Auckland
• Date: 2015
• Tools Used: Matlab, ANSYS, VBA, and Xfoil

Engineering Revue

The Engineering Revue begin in 2008 as a creative outlet for engineering students who wanted to do something a bit more artistic, and gain experience in something that wasn't super technical.

As a creative director of the revue, I worked on training and guiding engineering students to increase their confidence and better their public speaking skills.

I was also in charge of providing the audience over a wide range of entertainment over the course of a show.

In 2016, we moved the from the Maidment theatre to the SkyCity theatre, and as a result were able to increase ticket sales by approximately 40%

As an example of what we got up to, check out these videos from our 2015 and 2016 shows:

• For: Personal Project
• Date: 2015-2016
• Tools Used: Charm and Wit

Rstudio & Shiny Server

In May 2017, I began toying around with the idea of this website. During some sporadic development work and a little bit of help from some blog posts around the internet, I was able to create and host an RStudio server and a shiny server on a DigitalOcean droplet. Both are a work in progress at this stage, and I'll see if I end up with a use for them at some point!

• For: Personal Project
• Date: 2017 - ongoing
• Tools Used: R, shiny, and unix

ATC Scheduling

As part of one of our operations research papers, we were tasked with creating an optimal schedule for Air Traffic Controllers. The specifics were vauge, and exact costs of any decision were left for us to find. After attempting to ensure we had safely minimised the number of controllers we would need on duty at any given time, we looked at how our schedule would cope with air traffic in real time. The results of our simulation can be seen below.

• For: The University of Auckland
• Date: April 2014
• Tools Used: Matlab, VBA, Excel, and OpenSolver