{"id":1513,"date":"2023-04-27T13:16:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:42:17","slug":"nikolas-bardis-23-mechnical-engineering-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/nikolas-bardis-23-mechnical-engineering-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Niko Bardis &#8217;23: Mechanical Engineering Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Some people go their entire lives not knowing exactly what they want to do, but SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) senior Nikolas \u201cNiko\u201d Bardis isn\u2019t one of them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think there was ever a point [in time] when I wanted to do anything besides make stuff,\u201d said the Plattsburgh native and Mechanical Engineering Technology major. \u201cI had an old notebook as a kid with ridiculous ideas and inventions I wanted to create.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>As part of an art project, one of Bardis\u2019 first creations was a chair made from welded railroad ties.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m a very visual person. I&#8217;m very good at imagining 3D objects, moving them around, so when someone asks me to design something, or there is an issue, I can pretty easily look at the situation and envision what&#8217;s going to work and what&#8217;s not,\u201d Bardis explained. \u201cI just kind of like that process. I think it\u2019s a really cool and interesting challenge.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>After earning his Associate\u2019s Degree at Clinton Community College, Bardis chose to further his education at SUNY Poly. It allowed him to be within a good distance of home, and after visiting the campus on Accepted Students Day and seeing the Wildcat Motorsports SAE Baja club, he was hooked.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Bardis has enjoyed the smaller class sizes at SUNY Poly, allowing for closer interaction and interesting discussions with professors. He also has enjoyed access to and learning how to operate various high-end equipment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>While many great inventions started with one person\u2019s idea, through coursework and his involvement with Baja, one of the most important things Bardis has learned is the importance of being team-oriented.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s really how the real world works,\u201d said Bardis. \u201cIt&#8217;s never just you. It&#8217;s always a group of people working together. If there are issues within the team, the whole project winds up failing.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Up until recently, Bardis served as the Baja club\u2019s vice president, helping manage the team, making sure everyone had a project and stayed on task.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1515\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/bardis-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Niko Bardis (center) with Capstone project peers.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/bardis-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/bardis-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/bardis-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/bardis-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/bardis-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nikolas Bardis, center, with Capstone partners Sam Carlin and Zackery Kleist.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>For their senior capstone project, Bardis and fellow seniors Sam Carlin and Zackery Kleist created a wood gasifier that converts biomass into combustible gas.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Bardis learned of the technology, which has been around for a long time, after watching a video online of someone creating a wood gasifier out of welded metal that was used to run a generator. The trio then got to work on making their own wood gasifier come to life.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cThe document we used to build it had been around since just after World War II,\u201d said Bardis. \u201cBasically, the wood gasifier is a device that when you heat up organic matter, it causes it to rapidly decompose \u2026 speeding up that process. We designed ours to work with wood, but you can technically do it with any organic matter.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Bardis explained that in their research they found that many companies have used this process in recycling. Instead of incinerating the garbage, they\u2019d gasify it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The process allows for more flexibility as it\u2019s able to gasify items such as tires, computers, medical equipment, etc. and is also able to take any metal off of those items. If done correctly, syngas \u00ad\u00ad\u2013 a clear substance that looks like propane \u2013 is created. Syngas can be used to make fertilizers, hydrogen, liquid fuels like gasoline or potentially even jet and diesel fuel.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1516\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/bardis-3-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Niko Bardis in the lab\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/bardis-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/bardis-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/bardis-3-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/bardis-3-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/bardis-3.jpg 1656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It\u2019s also a carbon neutral process.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s fewer impurities to it and you&#8217;re taking out a lot of the carcinogens and other crud in it. And it&#8217;s better for the environment,\u201d said Bardis, \u201cbecause if you put that garbage in a landfill, the greenhouse gases you get from it, like methane, are worse than if you burn it.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>After graduation, Bardis will be returning home to Plattsburgh. He\u2019s been hired as a manufacturing process engineer at Schluter Systems, where he had previously interned.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cI learned a lot,\u201d he said of his time at SUNY Poly. \u201cI made several good friends and connections. I&#8217;m excited to see what the future holds and I feel like SUNY Poly has given me a good base to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1517\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/PXL_20230328_180515480-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Materials for the capstone in user\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/PXL_20230328_180515480-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/PXL_20230328_180515480-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/PXL_20230328_180515480-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/PXL_20230328_180515480-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/PXL_20230328_180515480-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bardis is one of three seniors that built this wood gasifier that converts biomass into combustible gas.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people go their entire lives not knowing exactly what they want to do, but SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) senior Nikolas \u201cNiko\u201d Bardis isn\u2019t one of them. \u201cI don\u2019t think there was ever a point [in time] when I wanted to do anything besides make stuff,\u201d said the Plattsburgh native and Mechanical Engineering Technology &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/stories\/nikolas-bardis-23-mechnical-engineering-technology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Niko Bardis &#8217;23: Mechanical Engineering Technology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,25,9,26],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-engineering","tag-mechanical-engineering-technology","tag-suny-poly","tag-wood-gasifier"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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