{"id":39233,"date":"2015-12-09T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=39233"},"modified":"2015-12-09T09:32:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T14:32:48","slug":"wright-state-engineering-students-help-make-ceremonial-switch-for-daytons-holiday-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/12\/09\/wright-state-engineering-students-help-make-ceremonial-switch-for-daytons-holiday-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State engineering students help make ceremonial switch for Dayton\u2019s holiday tree"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left: Wright State student Laynce Yoder, DP&L employee Michael Dornbursch and Wright State students Jeremy Hong and John Richard at the Grande Illumination Ceremony on Courthouse Square in Dayton.<\/p><\/div>\n

Three Wright State University electrical engineering students were instrumental in making the light switch for the holiday tree lighting ceremony on Courthouse Square in Dayton.<\/p>\n

The Nov. 27 lighting of the towering tree from Tipp City drew hundreds of spectators. The Grande Illumination Ceremony is one of Dayton\u2019s largest annual holiday festivities, this year marking 43 years of kicking off the holiday season, according to the Downtown Dayton Partnership.<\/p>\n

The Dayton Power and Light Co. approached Wright State\u2019s Department of Electrical Engineering<\/a> in October for help in designing a ceremonial switch.<\/p>\n

\"After<\/a>

After helping develop a design, Wright State students had to engineer the circuitry of the light switch.<\/p><\/div>\n

Taking on the project were Laynce Yoder, a graduate student from Middletown; Jeremy Hong, a junior from Dublin, Ohio; and John Richard, a junior from Bellbrook.<\/p>\n

The students brainstormed ideas with officials from DP&L and the Nova Creative Group, a Dayton design company. The group settled on a giant wall light switch.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was fast-paced work. You couldn\u2019t waste any time,\u201d said Hong, who is interning in the Dayton office of Sierra Nevada Corp., which provides electronic systems. \u201cAnd it was nice having the experience of communicating with people more on the creative side of things in design.\u201d<\/p>\n

The biggest challenge for the students was producing a switch in a short period of time. So they tried to keep it simple in order to meet the deadline.<\/p>\n

After the design work was finished, the students had a week to engineer the circuitry of the switch. They worked out of an office in a bank building adjacent to Courthouse Square, soldering and finishing the circuitry there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe switch was able to be rolled right out once we were done,\u201d said Yoder.<\/p>\n

\"Wright<\/a>Yoder, who works for Ball Aerospace as an associate engineer in radio frequency and wireless communications, said the experience gave him a chance to work on a project with non-engineer professionals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a lot out of that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

That was echoed by Richard.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things I really appreciated about having this opportunity and experience as a whole was I was able to interact with these professionals,\u201d he said. \u201cThey knew what they wanted and what they didn\u2019t want. Just being in the room with everything being passed back and forth so quickly \u2014 that was really big. That was an eye-opener.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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