Monday, December 15, 2008

CETA Day, December 12, 2008

CETA once again showcased our talented students on CETA Day. Several seniors presented their capstone projects, first-year students demonstrated a robot project required for their Engineering and Design class (ES 143), and a second-year architecture class, Architecture Design II (AET 233) presented their final projects.

Some of our senior projects are solutions to real-world problems brought to us and sponsored by local industry; others are projects that students propose themselves; all require a demonstration of results. These projects are a valuable integrative experience for CETA students, who must demonstrate what they have learned over the course of their time here through the work they present. Any program accredited by ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology), as many of our programs are, requires its seniors to produce capstone projects.

We were joined by approximately 30 students and teachers from the University High School of Science and Engineering, one of two magnet schools on the University of Hartford campus. In addition to taking in some of the projects presented on CETA Day, the high-school students saw demonstrations of our digital audio studio and took part in a team-building exercise, making a free-standing tower of spaghetti and mini-marshmallows, that we use in our first-year dialog courses.




University High-School students creating a tower of spaghetti and mini-marshmallows in a team-building exercise.

Here are some of the presentations made on CETA Day.

Audio Engineering Technology Program

Senior Projects

Motion Detection Camera
Phillip Jackson and Sher Thao


Sher Tao demonstrating his motion detection camera for visiting University High-School students.

Dust Collector Control System
Martin Morris

Vacuum Tube Audio Subwoofer Amplifier
Edward “Ted” Dreger

Civil Engineering
Senior Water Quality Projects

Vapor Phase Catalytic Ammonia Removal (VPCAR) System
Tiffany Cartier, Steve Mgrditchian

Laboratory-Scale Water Treatment System
Joshua Bartkus, Ricky Mears, Dennis Meurer, Ben Sobocinski

Laboratory-Scale Oxygen Binding Filter Test for New Britian Water Department
Michael Grygus, Jill Gazzi

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engineering and Design Boe-Bots

Team Andrew Sloate
Ultimate Snow Removal Roe-Bot
Adam Clark, Carolyn Halaburda, Aaron Lesky, Mark Savo

GRR
Fire-Rescue-Bot
Geoff Clark, Rob McManus, Ryan Prieston

MAD B
Boe-Bot Rescuer
Emmanuel Cruz, Bandon Luckain, Amanda Reyes, Dan Wright


Boe-Bot Rescuer

Electrical Hustlers
Using the Boe-Bot to Reduce Manual Labor in a Manufacturing Plant
Danny Cruz, Greg Lallman, Ian Magor

Far Guard
The Latest in Home Security
Stacey Connelly, Teja Gandhi, Rob Piwonski, Theresa Sobocinski

Munchkin Mess Mover
Keeping Designated Lines Clean One Bottle at a Time
Jake Chaloux, Tom Ludorf, Phil Scalise

The Flame Fighter 3000
Emily McMullan, Matt Peeler, Evan Shaughnessy, Chris Tokarz

Code Blue Rescue with Wall-E III
Jenna Daly, Steve Florkiewicz, Madison Tobar

The Nuclear Power Plant Plumber
Dave Asplund, Jared Canney, Cameron Madge

Team M.A.C.E.
Shooting Grounds
Michael Aboumrad, Cody Hucke, Andrew Karis, Eric Steinberg

Boe-Bot: Wired Guidance
Christopher Connor, Ralph Savastano, Richard Smith, Daniel Suttmeier

Boe-Bot Bug
Amy Golebieski, John McCann, Michael O'Neal

Autonomous Driving Boe-Bot
Zohaib Hasan, Nathaniel Perna, Jeffrey Portal

Stair Climber
Garrett Lord, Richard McDougall, Gary Pelkey

The CAT
Onur Akan, Christopher Brown, Jeffrey Laning

Security Bug
Sean Arkin, Brett Jacobs, Christopher Mazella, Nicholas Powell

Rescue-Bot
Stephen Hrica, Paul Eginton Kautz, Jaleesa Kirton, Cody LaBar

Burgler Buster Bot
Jeffrey Neddermann, Daniel Florio, Alec Sibilia, Mehmet Melik

Construction Boe-Bot
Craig Healey, Michael Spindler, John Heaton IV

The Equalizer Bot
Martin Bowes, Zeljko Jagodic-Kuridza, Simon Kudernatsch,
Anthory Panebianco

Dancing Theremin
Thomas Burns, Daljit Cheema, Clinton Fleming, Peter Guzewich

Bot-Bot. No, It’s Paranoia!
Hakeem Barge, Spencer Brooks, Vincent Hynes, Mark Turner

Sammy the Sort-Bot
Harrison Flynn, Daniel Roditski, Kyle Siderski, Amy Sinkiewicz,
Shemika White

Department of Architecture
AET 233, Design II Projects

Translation of an author’s or artist’s work into a retreat house for that author or artist

Todd Conant
Daniel Condon
Spencer Dauer
Ashley Delvecchio
William Leo
Amanda MacDougald
Taimur Malik
Ashley Michaud
Bartek Pociecha
William Stochmal
Judson Thomas
Ervis Zeneli
Derek Zero

Ervis Zeneli explaining his design concept to the jury.

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