{"id":98049,"date":"2025-12-17T08:49:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/98049\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T08:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:49:16","slug":"industrial-automation-students-showcase-senior-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/98049\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Automation Students Showcase Senior Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, December, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Each year, the Industrial Automation Department at Bakersfield College hosts their<br \/>\n                        Senior Projects Open House which allows students in the program to present the innovative<br \/>\n                        projects they have been working on throughout the year. The event is open to the public,<br \/>\n                        and attendees have the opportunity to preview the students\u2019 automation creations and<br \/>\n                        interact with the people who developed them. This year\u2019s open house took place during<br \/>\n                        the first week of December and was hosted in the Robotics Lab of the Science &amp; Engineering<br \/>\n                        Building.<\/p>\n<p>There were a variety of projects that covered multiple industrial practices including<br \/>\n                        agriculture, human-machine interface, industrial processes, and more. One of the participating<br \/>\n                        projects was titled \u2018Aerophonics with Weather Machine\u2019 and was conceived and created<br \/>\n                        by a student team. RJames Viloria, Juan Manriquez, and Amy Huerta have been working<br \/>\n                        together on the agriculture-based project for nearly two semesters. The ambitious<br \/>\n                        endeavor focuses on optimizing a controlled environmental system for more efficient<br \/>\n                        farming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came up with the idea because most of the solutions in the market are timer-based,\u201d<br \/>\n                        says RJames Viloria, \u201cthe purpose of our project is to implement precision by measuring<br \/>\n                        nutrients, PH levels, and temperature in order to increase yields.\u201d They built the<br \/>\n                        entire project from scratch, and their display included a kale crop they had cultivated.<br \/>\n                        \u201cWe grew kale, but we also tested lettuces and specifically, Romaine lettuce,\u201d says<br \/>\n                        Viloria, \u201cand we were able to increase the growth rate and yield of the crops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if they felt their project was successful, Juan Manriquez was quick to<br \/>\n                        reply, \u201cAs a group and team, we feel like we nailed it,\u201d he says, \u201call of our hard<br \/>\n                        work has paid off.\u201d The team gets graded throughout the entire process, but the open<br \/>\n                        house serves as the last step to receiving their grade. \u201cWe do get reviewed and graded<br \/>\n                        during both semesters, and towards the end, the overall project would be the presentation,\u201d<br \/>\n                        says Manriquez, \u201cSo, based on how that goes today \u2013 it\u2019s like the final of our course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Industrial Automation open house served a perfect environment to showcase the<br \/>\n                        talent, creativity and technical skill developed within the department. The dedication<br \/>\n                        demonstrated by students like Viloria, Manriquez, and Huerta reflects their commitment<br \/>\n                        to hands-on learning and modern problem solving. Congratulations to all participating<br \/>\n                        seniors for their impressive work and successful presentations and best wishes as<br \/>\n                        they take the next steps in their academic and professional careers.<\/p>\n<p>                              <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/industrial-automtion-senior-project-Dec2025-SQ2.jpg\" alt=\"four wheeled project on display at open house\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/industrial-automtion-senior-project-Dec2025-SQ1.jpg\" alt=\"student discussing his project to event attendees\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/industrial-automtion-senior-project-Dec2025-SQ4.jpg\" alt=\"male student discussing his project with two onlookers\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/industrial-automtion-senior-project-Dec2025-SQ3.jpg\" alt=\"project billboard with description of the project\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/industrial-automtion-senior-project-Dec2025-H2.jpg\" alt=\"overhead shot of open house event with attendess and projects on display\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, December, 2025 Each year, the Industrial Automation Department at Bakersfield College hosts their Senior Projects Open House&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-98049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}