The use of electric bikes has been a growing trend in recent years. Surico concludes, from the statistics presented in his Times article on the Popularity of E-Bikes Slowing Down, that…
Simon HKJuly 14, 2022
Data-driven automation developments at the intersection point of the building energy, smart homes, and machine learning industries address energy consumption and storage from a conservation standpoint. This study seeks to…
Simon HKApril 30, 2022
This study seeks to present an approach for designing machine-learning control applications, to achieve critically-damped responses in single-degree-of-freedom systems, that can be applied to more complex multi-degree-of-freedom systems. The investigation…
Simon HKApril 5, 2022
The University of Victoria, where I did my undergraduate degree offers a unique upper-level technical elective to mechanical engineering students—aircraft design. Aircraft design is a specific branch of mechanical engineering…
Simon HKAugust 30, 2020
Designing the magnetorquer winding device was the practical portion of a required course in “engineering design”. The course taught a new framework for engineering design proposed by Peter Ostafichuk in…
Simon HKMarch 30, 2020
Building a mechatronic sorting device was the practical portion of an upper-level technical elective I took as part of my undergraduate degree. The “mechatronics” course was designed to introduce mechanical…
Simon HKDecember 30, 2019
I decided to take UVic’s “Computer-Aided Design” class as one of my upper-level mechanical engineering undergraduate technical electives. The course covered everything from the mathematics of three-dimensional graphic representation to…
Simon HKDecember 28, 2019
Designing a light booth for manual colour inspection of elevated prints was an assignment I received during my internships at Arius Technology in Vancouver. Engineering undergraduate students at the University…
Simon HKAugust 30, 2018
