Skip to main content
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • Videos
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Library
    • Research
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
STEM
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
Sections
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • Videos
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Library
    • Research
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
STEM

Entrepreneurial Engineering Students Improve Ambiance on Huckster Hill

Thursday, February 11, 2016, By Matt Wheeler
Share
College of Engineering and Computer Science

What if engineering students from different majors had an opportunity to develop a solution for an actual company in a single semester?

That is exactly what students in Professor of Practice Mark Povinelli’s “Introduction to Entrepreneurial Engineering” did last fall. Working with Echo, a small local design company, students experienced a real life design process that included ideation, prototyping, fabrication and installation.

Jeff Clark ’16 installs a light filter in Huckster Hill Park.

Jeff Clark ’16 installs a light filter in Huckster Hill Park.

Echo designed and built Huckster Hill Park at Westcott and South Beech streets in the Syracuse University neighborhood. If you’ve ever visited the park, you’re aware of the recess lighting underneath several park benches that provides a warm ambiance to the park at night. The lights, however, were too intense for people approaching and sitting at the benches. The class took on the project to design and fabricate filters for the lights to reduce their intensity while maintaining the aesthetics.

Students began by meeting with Echo’s Damian Vallelonga and Brendan Rose to observe and discuss the problem. Then, working with a limited schedule and budget, students formed multidisciplinary teams that presented several prototype design solutions to Echo at a preliminary design review. They fabricated prototypes and the final filter parts in the College of Engineering and Computer Science student shops and investigated the opacity and refraction properties of various material combinations.

In the end, the class formed a single team to finalize the design based on feedback from Echo and presented its prototype at a design review. Students even interacted with the light vendor, Kichler, and looked at the potential to provide filters as an accessory to the light design. The class installed its filters in November and they are now part of the park experience.

“This class gave students the opportunity to engage in a real-world problem and interact with a customer through the entire design process. Students were able to learn about how business opportunities are developed and how to innovate, resulting in a final fabrication and installation of their design,” says Povinelli.

 

  • Author

Matt Wheeler

  • Recent
  • COVID-19 Update: Vaccination | Testing | Important Reminders | Zoom Sessions
    Friday, January 15, 2021, By News Staff
  • Important Update: Spring 2021 Pre-Arrival Testing Requirements (Students from New York State and contiguous states)
    Thursday, January 14, 2021, By News Staff
  • Important Update: Spring 2021 Pre-Arrival Testing and Quarantine Requirements (Students from all states non-contiguous to New York State and international locations)
    Thursday, January 14, 2021, By News Staff
  • Students and Families Invited to Participate in Zoom Sessions to Discuss Return to Campus Planning
    Thursday, January 14, 2021, By News Staff
  • The Role of Digital Forensics and Tracking Down US Capitol Riot Criminals
    Thursday, January 14, 2021, By Daryl Lovell

More In STEM

The Role of Digital Forensics and Tracking Down US Capitol Riot Criminals

With just under a week left before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony, investigators and law enforcement agencies across the country are working speedily to identify as many of the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot offenders as they can. Knowing exactly…

A&S Researchers Awarded $2.1M Grant to Study Causes of Congenital Heart Defects

Congenital heart defects are the most common type of birth defect, affecting nearly 1 percent of births in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Doctors have been unable to lower that number…

$1.5 Million NIH Grant Funds ALS-Linked Research

The human body is made up of trillions of cells. Within each cell are proteins which help to maintain the structure, function and regulation of the body’s tissues and organs. When cells are under stress, as in response to heat…

Professor Shikha Nangia Selected as Associate Editor for ACS Applied Bio Materials Journal

Biomedical and chemical engineering Professor Shikha Nangia was selected as the associate editor for the ACS Applied Bio Materials journal. ACS Applied Bio Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of biomaterials and biointerfaces including and beyond…

It’s Getting Hot In Here: Warming World Will Fry Power Plant Production in Coming Years

There’s no doubt the Earth’s temperatures are going up. According to a December report by the World Meteorological Organization, 2020 is on track to be one of the three hottest years on record, already within the warmest decade to date….

Subscribe to SU Today

If you need help with your subscription, contact sunews@syr.edu.

Connect With Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
Social Media Directory

For the Media

Find an Expert Follow @SyracuseUNews
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • @SyracuseU
  • @SyracuseUNews
  • @SUCampus
  • Social Media Directory
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Campus Status
  • Syracuse.edu
© 2021 Syracuse University News. All Rights Reserved.