About Me

Hello there! My name is Albert Hanan and I am a fourth-year student studying Architectural Engineering (BS) and Civil Engineering (MS) through Drexel's BS/MS Accelerated Degree Program. I am from Renton, WA a city just 20 minutes South of Seattle (by car). It's a nice city and it's within close proximity to a major city as well as some very scenic nature, as are many cities in Western Washington. Below you will find two annotated maps of Washington.

Western Washington (Annotated)

All of Washington (Annotated)

I have had two co-ops thus far, the first at Jacobs Engineering and the second at Larsen and Landis. At Jacobs Engineering I worked in the transportation department focusing on the I95/Pennsylvania Turnpike interchange project. While the company was great and my coworkers were very nice, the company was so large that by the end of my first co-op I decided that I would try my hand at a smaller firm and focus more on structural design. Fittingly, my next co-op was at Larsen and Landis, a very small structural engineering firm in Fishtown. Here, I gained experience in drafting, structural design, and professional report writing which was truly invaluable. For my third co-op, I have accepted a job with EwingCole in their structural department. While not as large as Jacobs Engineering, EwingCole is a mid-sized engineering firm based in Philadelphia with offices in New York, North Carolina, and California.

That's me

When not in the classroom I enjoy playing basketball, playing guitar (not very well), and hiking. Last term, a friend and I decided that we enjoyed talking about basketball so much that we'd create a podcast about it. It's called Sorta, Kinda, Basketball. Neither of us has much podcasting experience, and we're not experts on any one subject, but we have some decent banter. We're going to try to get more episodes out this term (the end of last quarter got very busy for both of us, postponing new episodes). If you want to check it out, here's a link. Or don't. Whatever you'd like to do is okay with me. That's about all there is to know about me, if you ever want to say "hey" don't hesitate, I think I'm pretty friendly. Again, if not, that's okay too.

I personally define an Intelligent Building in today's world to be a building that utilizes digital intelligence to dynamically interact with the building's inhabitants and environment to better the user experience. I think the most important aspect of this definition is the fact that the systems must be dynamic, adapting to the environment and user. This can be done through artificial intelligence, machine learning, the internet of things, etc.