Graduating students from the College of Engineering & Information Sciences presented their senior projects Oct. 13 at the township campus of DeVry University.
Grimesh Patel of Absecon, Omar Garcia of South River, and Joel Suero of Stanhope worked on the RLD Rotating LED Display. The LEDs are positioned vertically and when the device rotates at a high speed, it creates alphanumeric symbols that appear to be floating in the air. The electronic engineers first developed their prototype as an LED Christmas tree but soon realized the implications the technology could have for educational systems or advertisements.
“We thought, a Christmas tree would be used once a year … so we wanted something that could be used all year long,” Patel said .
The project took two months of planning but an additional six months of development and testing. Suero said all of the skills the students utilized in the project came from DeVry courses — “from the chips we chose to the programming we developed” through a combination of mechanical and electronic engineering.
The 300-pound prototype could be redesigned and restricted for implications in the real world, Patel said, but the actual project could be sold as a conceptual design.
Another group who could feasibly sell its idea developed PAGE: Plants Automated Growing Environment. Carolina Martinez of Paulsboro, Mario Aguilar of Carteret, Jhonattan Molina of Perth Amboy, Kelvin Guillermo of Bloomfield, and Dominique Brown of Lakewood designed a system that controls the lighting, humidity and watering of plants inside a tank.
Aguilar likes houseplants but travels a lot, so he wanted to figure out a way to keep plants thriving. His group’s system taps into a database they compiled about various plants and uses computer software to set their requirements in the tank. There is also an APP (application) for Apple devices that can control the settings remotely.
“You don’t have to worry, did I water this plant or does it have enough light? It will do it for you,” Martinez said.
Pictured above (left to right): Dominique Brown, Jhonattan Molina, Mario Aguilar, Carolina Martinez and Kelvin Guillermo created PAGE: Plants Automated Growing Environment, to control the lighting, humidity and watering of plants inside a tank.
(Photo courtesy of Jennifer Amato, North Brunswick Sentinel)
Although the group focused on just two preplanted plants because of the time constraint of the course, they said plants can be grown from seeds inside the tank, or it can even be used to house reptiles. Also, the size of the tank can be altered to grow a whole row of cabbage horizontally or a banana tree vertically, Martinez said. Or the tank can be created in different shapes and sizes for decorative purposes in businesses or hotels, Guillermo said.
“The technical sophistication of these projects is impressive,” said Chris Grevesen, president of the New Jersey campuses of DeVry University. “I think it’s important for students to realize that the courses they’ve taken throughout the curriculum are not islands of knowledge, but become something powerful in combination.
Pictured Above (left to right): Grimesh Patel , Omar Garcia and Joel Suero created the RLD Rotating LED Display that creates alphanumeric symbols that appear to be floating in the air as it spins at a high speed.
(Photo courtesy of Jennifer Amato, North Brunswick Sentinel)
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