Civil Engineering: What is BIM in 2020?
2020-03-31When constructing major and complex buildings or roads, there is a specific iterative working process. The Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) Industry is gearing more and more into innovation and digitalization. What is BIM? Before I explain what BIM is let me share an example of the design process within the AEC industry. The iterative working process (example): Client tells the Project Manager (PM) that they want a specific building made. PM notifies the architects or design team how the client wants the building. The design team will get back to the PM on how this can be done. The…
Hashtag #womeninSTEM – Chapter 1: The Interview
Below is my first chapter to a fictional story about a woman and her 3 friends all working in STEM. This book is dedicated to my baby girl, who turned 2 months this week. I hope to inspire her to…
Writing my first chapter for my first story with a working title
Wrote my very first chapter to a fictional story about women in STEM. Think Sex and the City, with little less focus on sex and more focus on confidence and women in STEM. Note that I wrote this in the…
Can I learn coding as a mom with a newborn baby?
Started this blog last summer 2019 and was at that time pregnant. The purpose of this blog was to write down my personal thoughts on coding. Specifically to keep track of my coding progress. To make sure I improve. That…
Ordered a HP 255 15.6″ for my mom – review coming soon
Being somewhat technical I end up being the tech support for my mom. 🙂 Which I don’t mind, it’s nice to help my momma out. She’s working as a librarian at a smaller school for adult, which she enjoys and…
VB.NET Difference between a Sub and a Function Procedure
The past two weeks we’ve had a big deadline for my other project – a data coordination related project. So I didn’t get to code much for two weeks. Now with the deadline for the other project behind me I…
Getting a freelancing gig without even planning it
Yesterday I finished my first freelancing gig. Fun! I’ve actually met this client before throughout the years for a few hours here and there. She is a creative designer who does everything from oil painting to interior decoration. The funny…
Creating my first QnA Bot in Azure – pros and cons
Earlier this spring I had an idea of making a QnA Bot within our unit at work. I work as a Data Coordinator, aka BIM Coordinator – I will explain more about BIM in another blog entry. More about me…
Cracked the screen on Huawei P30 Pro Amber Sunrise + A Short Review
This blog has a focus on STEM and therefore I thought I’d share a little experience with hardware tech. See my first blog entry to read on why I started this blog Setting up a new female developer blog. Background…
Coding Progress: Refactoring an add-in with .NET with VB.net
This is my second blog entry and the purpose with this blog to begin with was to keep track of my coding progress. Read my first blog entry Setting up a new female developer blog. I’m currently refactoring an add-in…
Setting up a new female developer blog
The idea of Stemspo Have been wanting to track down my progress in learning how to code for a while now, but never thought of how and under what name. So the other day I came up with a simple…