Equipment

Office Equipment

Computer equipment operated by Francis Smith Engineering, Inc. include the following:

	AMD Athlon ‑ 2700 MHZ computers configured for engineering computations, Engineering Autocad workstations, and for general business applications, together with a workstation interface to quantity takeoff and digitizing instruments.
	Canon Image Runner 400 – High speed printer, copier, and fax.
	Epson Expression 1600 flat bed scanner
	Nikon Coolpix 990 – Digital Camera
	Hewlett Packard Design Jet 3500 CP - 54” wide carriage pictorial, graphics, and engineering plotter.
	Epson Stylus Photo 1270 – Photo quality printer

A comprehensive library of “state of the art” computer software is utilized on the above computers according to the various system capabilities. The following are some of the current commercially available software used on the above systems:

	AutoCad 2000 (cad design/drafting/graphics)
	AutoDesk Land Development Desktop - Engineering programs for Autocad:
	LDD Package
	Civil Package
	Survey Package
	Map Package
	Cad Overlay Package
	Trimble Geomatics Office – GPS processing, transfer and analysis
	Adobe Photo Shop 7.0
	3D Studio Viz
	3D Studio Max
	Civil Tools
	Communications software
	Microsoft Office 2002 Suite of programs:
	Microsoft Word
	Microsoft Excel
	Microsoft Access
	Microsoft Outlook
	Microsoft Photo Editor
	Microsoft Power Point
	Microsoft Windows XP
	RAS Vertical Sections (earthwork volume calculations program)
	RAS Contours (earthwork volume calculations program)
	Subdivider (coordinate geometry calculations program)
	SweetSource Architectural Products program
	AutoTurn – Vehicle Turning analysis
	TR20 SCS hydrology programs
	TR55 SCS hydrology programs
	Haestad Methods Software including:
	Flow Master – Hydrology Calculations
	Cybernet/WaterCAD – Water system modeling
	Visual HEC 1 – Hydrology modeling
	Culvert Master – Hydraulics package
	HEC-RAS – Open channel flow analysis
	HEC-HMS – Army Corps of Engineers Hydrology modeling
	Quick Response System 2 – Traffic modeling
	Highway Capacity Software (HCS3) – Traffic modeling
	Various Utility Programs

In addition to commercially available programs, numerous proprietary programs have been written for special purpose calculations used within the firm.

Field Equipment

The firm operates field survey equipment which includes:

	Trimble 4700 RTK GPS system
	Trimble TSC-1 data collector/interface computer
	SDR 33 expert data collector
	four wheel drive vehicles,
	ATV vehicles,
	electronic distance measuring equipment (Sokkia Set 2BII),
	precision theodolites (Wild T‑2, Kern DKM‑2AE),
	Zeiss electronic level,
	communication gear,
	miscellaneous survey equipment, tools, and supplies.

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Copyright © 2002 Francis Smith Engineering, Inc.
Last modified: 05/16/02