MVN Overview
The river that runs past the New Orleans District office, which is also the focus of lots of the District projects.
What is the Mississippi River?
These are used to support houses and buildings in poor soils.
What are Piles?
Name a company/business that needs a Project Manager!
What is any company/business.
What is Lake Pontchartrain?
The USACE division that the New Orleans District is a part of.
What is the Mississippi Valley Division?
This looks like a fabric and is used to build levees.
What is Geotextile?
Describe/explain cross-functional collaboration.
What is the process of working with people across different teams or departments to achieve a specific project/goal.
The name of the spillway that we simulated in our model.
What is the Bonnet Carre spillway?
One of the project discussed in the 2023 USACE-MVN overview.
What are Grand Isle, Charleton Floodgate, West Closure Complex, Permanent Canal Closure and Pumps, SELA 72.1, underwater sill/saltwater wedge, Comite River Diversion project, Long Point Bayou marsh creation?
These are tested in the lab to determine the strength of the floodwall.
What are Concrete Cylinders?
Name the 5 essentials of Project Management!
What is: Budget, Schedule, Project Scope, Communication/Delivery, Cross Functional Collaboration
The name of the green lines that represent the underwater lakebed surface.
What are bathymetric cross-sections, or cross-sections, or bathymetry?
The executive branch department that the US Army Corps of Engineers is a part of.
What is the Department of Defense or the Department of the Army?
The drill crew takes these to determine the soil properties.
Name any structure affiliated with USACE.
What is: The Crecent city connection, the Huey P. Long, The pentagon in D.C., structures along Panama Canal, etc...
The name of the timeseries data that we applied to the upstream and downstream cross sections.
What are boundary conditions?
One of the 3 primary missions of MVN.
What are flood and coastal storm risk management, navigation, and ecosystem restoration?
This is the type of closure that is used on the floodwall in front of the district office.
What is Post and Panel?
What is the most important role of a project manager & why?
What is communicating/delivering information effectively so that the entire team is working towards the same goal to the best of their abilities!
The name of the file that we must import with our terrain file that tells our software the geographic location of the terrain file.
What is a projection file?