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21 Students Earn Accolades at Fall CETA Design Expo

From musical instruments to load management systems, students from UHart’s College of Engineering, Technology and Architecture put their creativity and ingenuity on display at the Fall 2024 CETA Design Expo.

Held at the Francis X. and Nancy Hursey Center for Advanced Engineering and Health Professions, the expo featured 45 innovative projects from students ranging from first-years to seniors.

Seven of the projects were singled out for exemplary work, with 21 students taking home top honors in their divisions.

The expo is held each fall and spring, and gives students a chance to present projects intended to help others or solve a problem. Working in teams of two to four, more than 150 students created prototypes of their inventions.

But it’s the next step that makes the CETA Design Expo more than a simple showcase. The teams are expected to pitch their ideas – just as they would in the real world – to a group of judges that include industry professionals, faculty and staff, and student ambassadors.

The projects are judged according to six standards:

  • Performance: Did the product work as designed?
  • Creativity: How creative was the final product?
  • Level of Difficulty: How complex was the product?
  • Experimental Verification: Was the product performance evaluated according to a set of criteria?
  • Poster Presentation: Was the project goal clearly illustrated?
  • Oral Presentation: Were students well-rehearsed and well-prepared?

Congratulations to Our Fall 2024 Top Project Winners!

Rhythm Game 

  • Gabby Debenedetto 
  • Grace Modrzecki 
  • Jaylynn O'Neal 
  • Erich Reichert 

HBT: Heavy Budget Theremin 

  • Gideon Boyko 
  • Jay Gary 
  • Vinh Nguyen 
  • Aaron Sprinzen 

The Venti-Controlled System/Top Tier Engineers 

  • Giorgi Okrotsvaridze 
  • JJ Agudelo Castillo 
  • Giselle Scrivanich 

MIXXX Fader Controller/Fade to Black 

  • Ryan Kaminski 
  • William Preye 
  • Matthew Haughton 

The M&Ns: MIDI Forge 

  • Daniel Houghton 
  • Connor Tuohy 
  • Alex Jackson 

The Pepper Project

  • Ari Swanger

Load Management System

  • Abdulrahman Alazmi
  • Abdulmohsen Alali
  • Ali Alajmi

Scenes from the CETA Expo

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