CETA Mechanical Engineering Students Present Posters at CTSG Expo

 

Jonathan Brown (left) and Charlie DeLorenzo '18 in front of their posters at the CTSG Expo

Two CETA Mechanical Engineering students, senior undergraduate Jonathan Brown and graduate student Charlie DeLorenzo '18, both presented posters at the 2018 Connecticut Space Grant Consortium Expo held at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, CT.

Jonathan Brown presented his work, "Supersonic Inlet Noise Radiation Study" which was funded as an Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Jonathan completed this work over the summer of 2018 and also presented his work at NASA Glenn Research Center. He is continuing this work has submitted a paper to the AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference to be held in Delft, Netherlands in May of 2019. This work was supervised by Dr. Paul Slaboch, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Charlie presented his work titled, "Effect of Aft Rotor on Forward Rotor Blade Wakes in Open Rotor Propulsion Systems," was funded a Faculty Research Grant awarded to Dr. Slabcoh. This work was published and presented as part of the ASME Turbo Expo held in June 2018 in Oslo, Norway. Jared Deleon '18 was also a coauthor on that paper. Please see attached paper for further details on this work.
 

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Charlie's paper presented at ASME Turbo Expo in Oslo, Norway
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Unotes: 10/30/18

Assistant Professor Timothy Adekunle Publishes a Peer-Reviewed Article in the Journal of Sustainability

Assistant Professor Timothy Adekunle in the Department of Architecture, College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture (CETA) published a peer-reviewed journal article titled: “A Conceptual Framework for a Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) Educative-Communication Approach” (https://doi.org/10.3390/su10103781) in the Journal of Sustainability. Dr. Adekunle served as a co-lead author for the journal article with other scholars from the Department of Architectural Engineering at the United Arab Emirates University and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indiana University-Purdue University. The detailed information about the peer-reviewed article can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/10/3781.

Unotes 10/25/18

Graduate Architecture Student Team a Finalist in Hartford Design Competition

 

Proposed 5 Corners Park

 

A team of five UHart Master of Architecture students was selected as a finalist in the 'Dream Green Hartford 2018' design competition sponsored by the City of Hartford Climate Stewardship Council. The UHart competition entry proposes developing the "5 Corners Park" by adding various activities and play features to a proposed plaza in North Hartford. The plaza is currently under construction in association with the Community Solutions renovation of the Swift Factory in North Hartford. The new park would provide numerous activities to the residential neighborhood, while also helping to education residents about the advances storm-water managment using a bioswale adjacent to the north side of the park. The student team is comprised of Nabila Ahmed, Brian Gonzalez, Alexis Hoff, Katie Scanlon, and Patrick Spichal. Their project was generated as part of the ARC 611 Architecture Studio 3 course taught by Associate Professor Seth Holmes. Additionally, a number of undergraduate architecture students engaged the project during a 1-hour 'design charette' as part of instructor Terri Hahn's AET 353 Site Planning Course. The students will present their proposal to a design jury and the City of Hartford on Wednesday October 24th at 5pm.

You can view their full proposal and submission here.

UNOTEs - 10/15/18



Nagurney Presents Paper at the Frontiers in Engineering Education Conference

Professor Nagurney at FIE

Professor Nagurney's Winning Tweet

 

Ladimer S. Nagurney, Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering in CETA presented the paper, Software Defined Radio for Communications, at the 48th Frontiers in Engineering Education Conference, held in San Jose, CA, last week. Professor Nagurney's research on which the paper was based was funded by his 2016 Vincent B. Coffin Grant.

In addition, Professor Nagurney won the conference social media Twitter contest for his tweet at the Virginia Tech booth in the exhibits. For his win, Cypress Semiconductor Inc. will be donating Digital Signal Processing development boards to CETA.

Unotes - Oct. 2018

Architecture Faculty Sawruk and Hegenauer Present Papers at International Conferences in Sweden and Switzerland

Associate Professor Theodore Sawruk and Assistant Professor Jason Hegenauer traveled to Sweden and Switzerland to present papers on historic Connecticut structures and passive design sustainability.  “How Sustainable was Connecticut’s Historic Saltbox House?” by T. Sawruk, T. Adekunle, J. Hegenauer was presented at the 3^rd International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings in Visby, Sweden.  “The Italianate Villa: Natural Ventilation in the Service of Family and Home during the 1800s,” by T. Sawruk, and Natural Ventilation and the New England Saltbox: Historically Proven, Sustainable Renewed,” by J. Hegenauer & T. Sawruk were presented at the 13^th International Conference on Advanced Building Skins in Bern Switzerland.  Professor Sawruk was also the Session Chair for Natural Ventilation and Thermal Behavior of the Building Envelope.  All three papers are available online or via the conference proceedings, located on the conference websites.

Unotes - Oct. 2018

Keilich, Eppes, and Milanovic Present Paper at the 2018 COMSOL Conference

Velocity Streamlines & Species Concentration

Stefan Keilich, May 2018

Stefan Keilich, graduate student in mechanical engineering, Tom Eppes, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Ivana Milanovic, professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture (CETA), presented a paper at the October 2018 COMSOL Conference in Newton, MA. The conference brings together developers and researchers to present their findings in the area of multiphysics modeling.

 The paper, ‘Design of an Electro-Osmotic Microfluidic Mixer’ discusses the results of an inquiry-based learning project funded by a CETA faculty/student engagement grant. The technical focus of the work involved a class of microfluidic mixers that use a voltage field to accelerate the diffusion process between two liquid species in an electrolytic solution. Over the past two decades, these types of ‘lab on a chip’ devices have attracted much attention and are currently used in the food, chemical, and biomedical fields to analyze a range of fluid and chemical properties. Their small scale requires small fluid samples and only seconds to obtain accurate readings of such parameters as glucose level, pathogen presence, and DNA sequences. The COMSOL® microfluidics module was used to investigate two geometric approaches using both stationary and time-dependent studies. A design of experiment (DoE) was conducted to evaluate values of key variables.  The vortical structures within the velocity flow field were investigated as well as the relative molar species concentrations at the outlet. 

Unotes - Oct. 2018

 

CETA First–Year Students and Mentors Support Hawk Nation

On Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, over 200 College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture (CETA) First – Year students, led by their CETA Student Ambassadors & Leadership Society mentors, attended the Hartford Hawks men’s soccer game. At this initial meeting, CETA first-year students spent time with their mentors, socialized with their classmates, and cheered on the Hawks!

Creating a strong sense of University spirit, preparing first-year students for successful careers that are driven by their passions, and providing an environment where we respect and celebrate our diversity are some of the key elements CETA first-year students are introduced to during their initial Dialogue classes. Thanks to all who participated and assisted! GO HAWKS!!

 

UNOTEs - 10/3/18