Engineering Applications Center: Innovating Today's Manufacturing Industry

1. “University R&D: It’s Role in CT’s Economy” Devdas Shetty Vernon D.Roosa Professor and Associate Dean, College of Engineering “Manufacturing – Still the corner stone of Connecticut's Economy” CBIA, HABE, and UoH Sep 5, 2002

2. Manufacturing –More Than a Remnant of the Past • Modern manufacturing has changed • Shift of focus to service based industries • Labor intensive jobs • New generation of manufacturing • Global competition • Internal partnership among firms • Engineering education is more global in nature

3. CHANGES IN ENGINEERING PRACTICE • Design activity involves a broader range of disciplines • Globalization of engineering practice and increased competition • Concept-to-product time shortened • Companies narrow their focus to the core business • New technologies emerge at a quickened pace • Design for the environment

4. Mission of the Engineering Applications Center To provide the students with real life challenges by developing partnership with industry through student projects, graduate work and research programs.

6. Learn to work Independently & as a Team!

7. Industry Related Projects & Professional Presentations

8. Acoustics and Vibrations Advanced Manufacturing Biomechanics Energy and Environment Signal Processing Industry Advisory Board INSTITUTES

9. Industry Affiliates • Pratt and Whitney (UTC) • Hamilton Sundstrand (UTC) • Sikorsky Aircraft (UTC) • Wiremold Company • Carrier Corporation (UTC) • OTIS Elevators (UTC) • Loctite Corporation • LEGO Systems Inc. • Ensign-Bickford Co. • Kaman Corporation • Stanley Works

10. Recent Participants - Representative • Phillips Automotive Technologies • Naval Air Warfare Center • Albert Einstein Medical Center, NY • Gerber Garment Technologies • Shape Electronics (Wiremold Company) • UTC Fuel Cell • Visual Solutions • UCONN Health Center • Yamaha Guitar • University of the West Indies • CNC Software Inc. • Pitney Bowes

11. Architectural Musical Audio Environmental Acoustical Projects Noise Control Hearing / Psychoacoustics

12. Water treatment Water resources Geo-technical Transportation Environmental Projects Remote sensing G.I.S

13. Bio-implants Biomechanics Ergonomics Biomechanics Rehabilitation Bio-Fluids

14. Montefiore Medical Center Rehabilitation Walker

15. DSP Embedded Processor Communication VLSI Signal Processing Digital control Power systems

16. Design for manufacturing Sensors & Surface Inspection Design Analysis Product Design Manufacturing CAD/CAM Mechatronics

17. Projects with Industry • A New Laser Probe For Surface InspectionPratt & Whitney Aircraft Co • Ergonomic WorkstationEnsign Bickford Co. • Evaluation of Elliptical ducting in environmental control systems forHamilton Sundstrand • Thermal Stress analysis of Heat Exchangers for Boeing-700 series ForHamilton Sundstrand • Redesign of Robot Drive System for US FIRST Competition (withLEGO Systems) • Creation of custom graphics and user interface for Carrier Corporation

18. Projects with Industry • Design of a parking facility and vehicular access for the Bement School historic district, MA • Structural design of Pondview professional building • Town of Bolton Aerial/Parcel map update using GIS • City of Chesapeake, Va Route 168 bypass over Hillcrest Parkway • Investigation of Various Techniques for Reduction in Electromagnetic Interference-Wiremold

19. Projects with Industry • Redesign of a Detonation Shock Tube Winding Machine For High EfficiencyEnsign Bickford Co. • Feasibility of modification to a Rotary Box ExchangerLEGO Systems. • Helicopter Rotor System Damping to a Problem in the KMAX SystemKaman Aerospace Corporation • Interlocks for Elevator Entrance Doors Otis Elevators • An Alternative Flow Metering and Control SystemHamilton Sundstrand • Integrally Bladed Rotor Automated Machining and Filtration SystemPratt & Whitney Aircraft Co.

20. Hamilton Sundstrand Valve Design Projects Redesign Modeled Safety Valve Cover

23. Streamlining of the SH-2G • Aerodynamic Streamlining Drag Reduction Minimize Vortex Shedding

24. Investigation of Parameter Deflection of Stator Blades During Repair Process (P&W) Adaptive Tool Path Generation and Simulation Algorithm for Surface Machining (CNC) The Effect Of HCF I LCF Interaction On Fatigue Crack Growth Rates Of Single Crystal Nickel Super alloys (P&W) Mechanical Simulation & Analysis of Hydraulic Valve Motion Snubber Impact Forces for Prediction of Durability (Jacobs) Ultra-low Force Probing: Studies of MEMS-based and Fiber-bending Probe Systems (NIST)

25. Passive Solar House Design Management of Fluids in a Zero Gravity Environment (Hamilton) Ambulatory Suspension System (Albert Einstein Hospital) Dynamic Vibration Properties of Fluid Filled Cylindrical Pressure Vessel (Hamilton) Simulation of fuel stack assembly (UTC Fuel Cells) On-line measurement system for raceway model (Wiremold) Surface contour measurement system (Loctite)

26. OTHER ACTIVITIES • International Partnership • Customized Training Programs • Grants from Government and Industry • Technology commercialization • Publications

27. IMPACT • Solving industry problems • Product Design, Analysis and improvement • Process Layout • Assembly improvement • Testing equipment • Projects with Community • Student/Faculty teams on real life problems • Seminars, workshops and training • Curriculum distinctiveness • Laboratory support • Publications and grants