10th Sponsor Meeting

This visit was a one to remember. As soon as I met up with Charlie we left his office to go and consult with the surveyors that were recording data on the streets that surround a elementary school. The roads were badly beat up since they were over 50 years old and the curbing almost seemed to be just a pile of rocks along the side of the streets. I actually learned something useful yesterday because most people don not really use a lot of math outside high school and college, but in surveying it really is important to know. The equipment surveyors use all relate to geometric shaping using various angles and distances. The main unit fires a beam to a receiver point held by someone else at whatever distance they maybe and reflects the beam back to the initial position. The from the amount of time it took the beam to travel and come back, an analyzer can analytically decipher how far it traveled, the angle at which it traveled, the elevation at that point. After watching the surveyors work for awhile we finally went back to the office to discuss the product portion again. There, I saw how engineers begin a rough draft on how major projects begin and how small details prove to be huge problems in the long run.