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Tuesday, March 3

The University is operating on a regular schedule this morning but will close today at 1 p.m. Classes starting at or after 12:30 p.m. will not meet in person. Classes already in session will dismiss at 1 p.m. Online and remote courses are not affected by campus closings and will meet as scheduled. Please note that when a campus closing prevents an in-person class from meeting at its scheduled time, professors may opt to conduct classes or provide assignments online. Students should check Blackboard and their email regularly on such days to learn of any alternate arrangements. More on weather-related closings

Enrico Obst

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Instructor of Engineering

Mechanical, Aerospace, and Acoustical Engineering

College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture
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Education

MEng, Mechanical Engineering, University of Hartford

BSME/Energy & Sustainability Concentration, University of Hartford

AS, Eastern Connecticut State University

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  • Instructor of Engineering (2016 - Present), University of Hartford; Department of Mechanical Engineering (West Hartford, CT)
    • CETA E.S. Eng. Design Course Coordinator (2023 – Present)
    • CETA Makerspace Supervisor (2023 – Present)
    • CETA Machine Shop Faculty Liaison (2023 – Present)
    • Faculty Advisor - Advanced Undergraduate Rocketry Operations & Research Association (AURORA) (2024 – Present)
    • Principal Investigator / Faculty Advisor - NASA RockOn Workshop & NASA RockSat Program (2021 – Present)
    • NASA NEBP Technical Advisor (2023 - 2024)
    • Capstone Advisor - FSAE team (2020 – 2021)
    • Faculty Adviser - UAV grant project (2018 – 2019)
    • CETA Machine Shop Manager (2017 – 2019)
    • NASA Total Solar Eclipse 2017 Technical Advisor (2017)
    • NASA CT Space Grant Consortium Faculty Recipient and Mentor (2016 – Present)
  • U.S Army ARDEC-based Hybrid UAV Grant Project Manager / Mechanical Engineer (2013 - 2016) 
  • Manufacturing Engineer (2008 - 2009), Columbia Manufacturing (Columbia, CT)
Publications
  • ASEE / FYEE conference paper – (2024)
i. Wang, S., & Obst, E., & Richards, B. (2024, July), (Full Paper) Enhancing Sense of Belonging in First-Year Engineering Students through Integrated Project-Based Learning and Communication Skills Development Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts. 10.18260/1-2--48582
  • AHAC paper(s) – (2024)
i. Camarillo, J., Freedman, S., Piscitelli, C., Rittenburg, A., Krebsbach, A., Lauzier, D., Ho, J., Akyigit, I., Hill, S., Ayala, A., Nunes, E., Esteves, A., Ngethe, D., Fleischmann-Mcgarrah, V., Hornberger, A., Obst, E. & Slaboch, P., (2024) “Solar Eclipse Impact on Atmosphere with High-Altitude Ballooning”, Academic High Altitude Conference 2024(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/ahac.17958
Media Appearances
Conferences
  • Academic High Altitude Conference (2024)
Certifications
  • OSHA-10
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Renewable Resources