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Harrison Durbin

Engineering Design Projects, Studies, and Models

Novel, Low-Energy Water Distillation Method Study

Research to determine the feasibility of zero-gravity seawater distillation as an alternative to Reverse Osmosis water plants as part of my Master's thesis.

Rainwater Disinfection Simulator

Computational model using advection-diffusion-reaction (ADR) equation with proportional controller to disinfect rainwater for potable use [Matlab].

Groundwater Banking Project

Project to capture low-cost water for underground storage during wet periods and recover this water for later use. Was lead civil design / project engineer responsible all construction plans for this award winning project [Civil3D].

Wastewater Treatment Plant Project

Project to create a new zero-discharge wastewater treatment facility. Was lead civil design engineer and created all construction plans for this award-winning project [Civil3D].

Steel Storage Tank Project

Project to store water in a 2 million gallon welded steel tank. [Civil3D].

Stormwater Flow Hydraulic Model

Hydraulic model for a complex, interconnected storm drain system at a large airport for 25, 50, and 100-year storm events [HEC-RAS].


GIS, Data, IoT, and App Projects

Indoor Temperature Forecast

IoT Raspberry Pi with temperature sensor to monitor temperature and make indoor forecasts using a predictive model. [Python,Sqlite].

Tweet Clustering and Analysis

Parsing 1M+ geo-tagged tweets, creating spatial clusters, and storing in databases for display in GIS [Python,PostGIS,QGIS].

Chicago Bus Analysis

Database schema design to optimize performance for chicago bus data [Python,PostGIS].

Happiness Level Predictor

Analysis and prediction model of world-wide happiness levels [Python,Flask,Sqlite].

GIS Line-Linking Algorithm

Script to link thousands of nearly connected shapefile lines for a road network in Brazil.

Rose-tinted Glasses Web App

Web app to collect data and gain insights to optimism / pessism levels. [Flask,Postgres].


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