Friday, May 7, 2010

CETA Day Celebrated


Friday May 7 is CETA Day, when we celebrate the creativity of our Engineering, Technology, and Architecture students as they present senior capstone projects and Master’s thesis work. Here is a list of many of the presentations made today:

Audio Engineering Technology:

Rob Hoinsky: Acoustic Modification of a Space for Mixing Music

Diana Rosen: Independent Film Project—Videos for Real Art Ways Community Center

Keenan O’Connor: Harmonic Percolator Guitar Effects Unit

Andy Spalla: Commercial Sound System Installation in the University of Hartford’s Gengras Main Hall/Cafeteria

Computer & Electrical Engineering, ECE 483–Design II:

Jeremy Bredickas & Shruti Khare: Fire-fighting Robot

Michael Carbary: Bluetooth FM Transmitter

Sam Dick: Wondrous Wireless Super-Heterodyne Radiola

Klaudio Doko & Brad Deschenes: The Heat Is On

Michael Mancini & Giuliano Messina: Wireless Power Transfer

Scott Shepard: Pump Reliability/Behavioral Prediction Using Sensor Arrays & Neural Nets

Computer & Electronic Engineering Technology:

Ian Cluggish: Envelope Filter Guitar Effect

David Fairbanks: Hall Call Station Tester

George Thomson: Blues Bottle

Papa Asante, Luis Guzman Lazaro, Taylor McCall: Pick-a-Spot Parking Space Finder

Gavin MacDonald: Head Phone Amp

Rafael Rivera: Punch Smart

Civil Engineering:

Justin Howe, Luca Mineo, Neftali Torres: Replacement of the Goold Road Bridge over CSX Railroad; Chatham, New York

Raymond Culver, Daniel Melnik, Andrew Mukon: Design of a Three-Story Steel Frame Office Building; West Hartford, Connecticut

Ryan Bresnahan, Nickolas Corrozza, Elias Noujaim: Replacement of the Rt. 1 Bridge over Wepawaug River; Milford, Connecticut

Eric Benoit, George Bongart: Hebron Ave./House St. Traffic Study and Roundabout Design; Glastonbury, Connecticut

Biomedical Engineering:

Joseph Arascunaga, Erik Carlson, Stephen Charry, Billdicson Dely, Barry Hansen: Underwater Treadmill Lift

Master’s Thesis Presentations:

Erdem Kutuk: Bacterial Flagellar Motor—a Study

Dennis O’Connor: Simulation of the Thermal Performance of a Net Zero Energy Performing Arts Building

Faisal Rahmani: Wind Energy in Western Afghanistan

Chaitanya Sajja: Finite Element Analysis of Laser Machining Process

Srikanth Sanga: A Study of Carbon Nanotubes

R. Dave Staubach: Performance Analysis of 2-Spool vs. 3-Spool Aero Gas Turbine Engine

Girish Velamakanni: Finite Element Analysis of Machining

Rob Wheeler: Topology Optimization with Manufacturing Constraints

Seniors in Architecture presented their senior thesis design work on Wednesday, May 5, as follows:

Shannon Brown: USET Youth Equestrian Athlete Center

Analiza Fuentes: Learning Through Movement (gymnastics center)

Artur Korpiewnicki: Mercedes Formula 1 Museum and Track

Matthew O’Brien: Mars Research Station

Johanna Schumacher: Linking Through Science

Other seniors presented their thesis projects in an open forum as follows:

Sean Bucher: Dune Surfing Resort

David Flannery: Interactive Water Filtration Plant

Brian Kammerer: Sustainable Seaside Residential complex

Chris Kellogg: The Resort at Goshen

Donisia Martin: Clay Arsenal Gateway

Alex McKeton: Old Lyme Country Club

Amanda McLeman: Renovation of the Vern Theatre

Suzan Ozcelik: Earth, People and Heaven Theater

Robert Spencer: Haiti Parliament and Museum Center

Lauren Holzman: Kids in Motion Playhouse Museum

Also presenting this week on May 5 and 6 were students in ME 505, Mechatronics (the synergistic use of precision engineering, control theory, computer science, and sensor-actuator technology to design products and processes), as follows:

Barry Hansen and Erik Carlson: Portable Surface Roughness Analyzer

Amy Waraksa: SC Single Mode Plug and Play Light Test

Ryan Hargreaves and Stephen Sobocinski: Failsafe System for a Generic Electronic Device

Michael Chowaniec and Richard Avery: Low-cost Surface Analyzer and Vibration Detector

Kervin Lochard: Automated Weight Sensing and Positioning System

Jesse Carmichael and Melissa Cassidy: Airfoil Testing System for the Wind Tunnel at the University of Hartford

Pawan Rai and Christopher Diyaolu: A System for Damping a Vibrating Flap

William Rivera, Mark Noujaim, and Dalil Masood: Design and Testing of a fan Response System Using P.I.D. Controller

David Kurtz and Christopher O’Connor: Sequential Control of a Conveyor System

Mohammed Islam, Susheel Veeraboina, and Mark Turner: Solar Tracking System and a Real-Time Illuminator

Anton Banks: Automated Rotor Imbalance Mitigation

John Fleck, Jonathan Scales, and Matthew Nisen: Automated Tempering Oven

Amy Scherma, Ryan Serbel, and Steven Buck: Automatic Charge Amplifier Test System

Jared Stearns: Digital Control of a Refrigerant Metering Valve

CETA congratulates all the students who presented their culminating projects on their hard work and excellent results.
Ian Cluggish presents his Envelope Filter Guitar Effect project to students from the University High School of Science and Engineering.


 
Analiza Fuentes presents her design thesis to the jury.


Jeremy Bredickas and Shruti Khare show their fire-fighting robot.

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