Corpus Christi, Texas, United States
In partnership with the City of Kingsville's Engineering department, I along with 3 other students were hired to redesign 4,600 ft. of city road. My team and I successfully survey and plotted approximately 1,500 points using AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 to plot the existing conditions along the road. Along with surveying, another task was to calculate the current flow of water into the existing drainage system. This enabled me to re-design a new drainage system with adequate piping diameters to allow for worst case scenario storms to flow. The current grate inlets would also be changed to curb inlets. Towards the end of the project we as a team created a set of engineering plans that will be presented to Kingsville city officials to look at.
Collected and tested multiple soil samples of a historic earthen dam located in San Ygnacio, Texas. This dam currently resides at Rancho La Union, a ranch owned by the Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation. The hope is to revitalize this dam and its surroundings to promote educational opportunities to local students. While working on this project, my team and I analyzed the cross-sectional views and used HEC-HMS to determine the volume of a retention and detention pond, and calculate the volumetric flow. Designed a theoretical cantilever retaining wall using the results of our soil analysis Our work was presented at the 2015 Architectural Heritage Symposium at College Station, Texas