{"id":25844,"date":"2018-04-28T16:57:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T16:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=25844"},"modified":"2018-04-28T16:57:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T16:57:13","slug":"wfsb-channel-3-feature-on-senior-design-demonstration-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/04\/wfsb-channel-3-feature-on-senior-design-demonstration-day\/","title":{"rendered":"WFSB Channel 3 Feature on Senior Design Demonstration Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"WNStoryDateline\">STORRS, CT (WFSB) &#8211;\u00a0<\/span>UConn engineering students displayed projects that they&#8217;ve been working on all year on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s about 230 projects, 800 seniors, in groups of 3 to 4, and they&#8217;ve been working on these projects all year long.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur project is to control an electric motor for that car over there. It&#8217;s very efficient for its size and weight and provides a lot of power output 80 kilowatts 107 horsepower,\u201d said Daryl Biron, a UConn senior.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday was the UConn Senior Design Demonstration Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a package delivery drone, it can pick up and identify boxes,\u201d said David Kay, a UConn senior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are the big ones, so they work throughout their entire four-year career here to get up to this point and they&#8217;re making incredible projects out there,\u201d said Eli Freund, UConn School of Engineering Communications Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Students have been working with over 100 private companies, municipalities, and organizations to help put together projects that will make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur project is a way to monitor shunt functionality,\u201d said Caitlin Eaton-Robb, a Biomedical Engineering student.<\/p>\n<p>Caitlin was recently featured in a Channel 3 story <a href=\"http:\/\/UConn engineering students displayed projects that they've been working on all year on Friday.\">when she raised $8,000 running the Boston Marathon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, she explained her group project to help monitor the tool that helps people with fluids that build up in their brain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A shunt is a way to treat hydrocephalus, which is an enlargement of the ventricles so you do an excess of cerebral spinal fluid,\u201d Eaton-Robb said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/story\/38060859\/uconn-students-display-year-long-engineering-projects\">Click here<\/a> to watch full video newscast.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An overview of the 2018 UConn Engineering Senior Design Demonstration Day from WFSB Channel 3 News, and reporter David McKay. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":25847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[49],"class_list":["post-25844","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":"2026-06-10 02:47:08","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\/25844","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=25844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/25847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25844"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=25844"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=25844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}