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Students displayed their projects\u2014and posters\u2014on tables set up in Kirk\u2019s auditorium and hallways. The exhibits also included posters and, for the truly interested, flyers to take home.<\/p>\n
Joshua De La Hoz of Warwick and his team came up with MAGSEAL, a more efficient way of demagnetizing magnetic seals so they can be used repeatedly and won\u2019t deteriorate quickly..<\/p>\n
\u201cI learned so much,\u201d says De La Hoz. \u201cIt’s great to work on something from start to finish. For a mechanical engineer that\u2019s important. I went through every iteration\u2014from start to finish. That\u2019s what engineers love to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Christian Paquette, also of Warwick, helped build a machine that does a better job cutting sheets of plastic and also reduces damage to equipment. He and his team partnered with Toray Plastics of North Kingstown.<\/p>\n
\u201cWorking on a project like this is different from theoretical book work,\u201d he says. \u201cThis gives us a creative experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
One team improved the performance of the \u201cmini baja\u201d off-road car and another created a residential wind turbine called WINDFINITY, which can supply power to refrigerators and other household appliances. Other designs included an improved heat exchanger for potable hot water, a device to prevent ice dams in the winter, and a better respooling system for Hope Global, a textile company in Cumberland. (The team\u2019s name was appropriately called \u201cTeam All Wound Up.\u201d)<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s great women are getting into the science fields,\u201d said Jennifer McGunigal of Warwick, one of the engineers on the respooling team. \u201cEngineering has always been my first choice.\u201d<\/p>\n One of the more unusual projects was the RADSUB, a submersible that can inspect the core of nuclear reactors. \u201cFor an engineer, it\u2019s important to work with your hands and know how to make a design a reality,\u201d said Matthew Repetto, of Westchester, N.Y. \u201cEngineers sit at computers and design, but it\u2019s also important for us to use our hands.\u201d<\/p>\n Another hit was the Wingman 360, a device that can prevent wingtips on planes from colliding while aircrafts are being towed on the ground.<\/p>\n The 5-pound, plastic device temporarily attaches to a plane\u2019s wingtip with suction cups. Ultrasonic sensors in the device detect when the aircraft is getting too close to another plane on the ground or the wall of a hangar as it\u2019s being towed. The team is collaborating with Delta Airlines.<\/p>\n Delta is so enthusiastic about the project it sent a representative, Tim Files, an aircraft systems analyst, to the event yesterday. Files was excited about the students\u2019 work, which is based on a device created two years ago by another 溏心vlog免费B站 mechanical engineering student design team.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very impressed,\u201d said Files. \u201cStarting from scratch with an idea and bringing it to a tangible device that works\u2014that amazes me. These students are so enthusiastic, so driven, so smart.\u201d<\/p>\n A prototype of Wingman 360 was tested at an airport in Quonset last month. \u201cWe did really well,\u201d said Laura Corvese of Portsmouth, who is heading to graduate school at Boston University in the fall to study mechanical engineering and robotics. \u201cIt\u2019s been a great experience.\u201d<\/p>\n The drone was a crowd-pleaser. A full-size version was displayed on Kirk\u2019s floor, and Desilets charged up a smaller model at one point. The drone has a hidden drawer that can carry items weighing up to 8 pounds. With that capacity, it can deliver at sea anything from a sandwich to medicine. Desilets intends to spend his summer refining his plane. As far as his career goes, he says, the sky\u2019s the limit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KINGSTON, R.I., May 4, 2016\u2014Alex Desilets built his first remote-controlled plane when he was 6 years old. He\u2019s a senior at the 溏心vlog免费B站 and still building planes. His latest is the UPLOAD, a drone that takes off and lands on water. Desilets was one of dozens of 溏心vlog免费B站 engineering students who packed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/RADSUBgroup0.jpg\")