{"id":21036,"date":"2015-05-19T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=21036"},"modified":"2024-11-27T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T18:07:08","slug":"engineering-the-perfect-bicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2015\/05\/engineering-the-perfect-bicycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering The Perfect Bicycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Students who take Prof. Matt Klucha\u2019s course on bicycle design learn about the importance of creativity and simplicity in engineering. And here\u2019s a nice bonus: They also end up with a bike made with their own hands, customized to their needs. <br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s very hard to define creativity,\u201d Klucha says. \u201cWhat I prefer to do is teach creativity through project-oriented design.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Here&#8217;s a video about\u00a0Prof. Klucha&#8217;s class\u00a0by UConn Engineering&#8217;s Chris LaRosa:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wdO5qOvS9oo?list=PL0AA04F8BA8530E70\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students who take Prof. Matt Klucha\u2019s course on bicycle design learn about the importance of creativity and simplicity in engineering. And here\u2019s a nice bonus: They also end up with a bike made with their own hands, customized to their needs. \u201cIt\u2019s very hard to define creativity,\u201d Klucha says. \u201cWhat I prefer to do is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":146160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[55],"class_list":["post-21036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 07:39:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222099,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21036\/revisions\/222099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/146160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21036"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=21036"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}