SHU Engineering

We are off-campus...

SHU Engineering senior students presented their year-long projects at a regional conference. It was nice to be off campus and interact with other colleges.

 

 

EngiNews Fall 2019 issue

After a long break, EngiNews is back! Enjoy reading the Fall 2019 issue. Thank you Jillian and Sarah for content and graphics.

EngiNews Fall 2019

Spring 2024 in full speed

It is already February and Spring classes are in full swing. We have classes in the IDEA Lab from freshmen to senior level, lots of interactions and late-night study groups. Our three capstone projects are working on their prototypes, whether it be writing applications on Hololens, utilizing LiDAR for drone landing, or building an electric vehicle, students are busy with hands-on projects. Juniors are working on applying what they learn in the Embedded Systems course with Prof. Kevin Bowlyn by developing their final project ideas.

 

We cannot wait to see their presentations and working prototypes in April.

 

Stay warm and get ready to welcome Spring.

Some student highlights

As we slowly close the semester of Fall 2022, we figured to highlight two junior engineering students. Thank you, Kaitlyn Mangano ('23), for putting the highlights together.

Jenna Pfister, a junior electrical engineering student, spends much of her time on the softball field. She is a pitcher for the Women’s Softball team at Sacred Heart. She is the only technology student, let alone an engineering student, on the team. This means she must focus on time management. She is fortunate enough to have had some prerequisite classes with her teammates, such as Calculus. This allowed her to better connect with them during group study sessions. Jenna has a different work ethic from the rest of her team, as her major is more hands-on and project-based. This allows her to assist her teammates with their throwing as she visually views their throwing differently. She can give a technical perspective on things as she views one’s arm as a lever. During her season, she travels around the country and brings her engineering projects to work on. Sometimes she’ll build circuits on the bus or in her hotel room. One thing that has been a struggle for Jenna is balancing her social life and schoolwork as a student-athlete and engineering student. When applying to Sacred Heart, she knew this was something she was going to have to work with as she was interested in coming here for both softball and engineering. However, she wouldn’t have it any other way as she doesn’t let her passion for both stand in her way.

Logan Ward, a junior Electrical Engineering student, works at the WSHU radio station. He began this role his first year at Sacred Heart, where he continues to work on small projects such as soldering wires onto a connection port that is later implemented into a more extensive system. At the radio station, he works hands-on, checking connections using circuit schematics. Logan also sets up computers at the station for colleagues. Other times, he travels to the transmitter sites where he checks on the panels that broadcast the radio station. In the engineering classroom, the labs he performs help to strengthen his knowledge of circuitry symbols. Also, utilizing the Idea Lab has assisted him with his soldering skills. He is currently seeking an internship in New York at a TV station.  

As the semester winds down...

As Thanksgiving approaches, we are also winding down our semester. However, classes are at full speed. 

1. Capstone students are trying to make their Formula Electric Vehicle move for their December demo.
2. Sensors and Robotics class is working on getting their drones flying before the end of the semester.
3. Our engineering student staff are helping get ready for the Spring semester classes with MATLAB coding, go-kart maintenance, and field trip planning.
4. Embedded systems class for the Spring semester is being prepared so students can build their own Arduinos from scratch.

Good luck to all our students! :)

Our Engineering students have been exposed to many industry professionals in the past few weeks and more to come:

1. We will go to KUBTEC Medical next week.
2. Few more field trips to Straton Industries and Beta Shim.
3. Speakers from WillRich Metrology
4. Field trip to GE Appliances.

SHU Engineering is the place to be! ;)

Guest Speakers

We had two great company guest speakers this week:

Omega Engineering professionals talked about career development, how to get internships and jobs, and shared their personal stories about becoming successful engineers.

Target Arm was presented by our own alumni, Gabe Bitencourt, and they even showed us a demo, it was great to see how drone operations are finding amazing applications. 

We hosted our first Engineering Advisory board this week. It was very insightful and thought-provoking. We are so lucky to be in the company of great industry partners in the region.

We were also honored and proud to have recent graduates Gabriel Bitencourt and Michael O'Hara as board members along with our current senior student Kaitlyn Mangano.

#engineeringeducation #abet #accreditation #advisoryboard

So proud of our Engineering freshmen students for spending 15 weeks to build their electric go-karts while raising funds to build a playscape.

70 donors, 2,800, 5 go-karts, lots of fun! :)

Happy Summer...

Go-karts...

Our freshmen engineering students in ENGR 125 class is taking the challenge of building go-karts this semester. Technical knowledge and skills are crucial for engineers but so is the team work. See below time-lapse video of almost 3 hours of engaged students, working hard to build their go-kart frames. 

Not only they are learning the content, they are also working on a fundraising company for Simply Smiles to raise $5,000 to help them build a playground for their foster homes (Link to fundraising company). We are proud of every single of our Engineering students who are working on this.