This fall’s Engineering Practice course had first-year electrical and computer engineering students creating robots that picked up randomly selected objects and delivered them through autonomous and remote-control methods.
First-year electrical and computer engineering students once again met the challenge of a fall competition that required knowledge of programming, microcontrollers, and circuit building to design robots that collected objects and delivered them to a variety of places on a large game board.
The challenge culminated in an introductory Engineering Practice course that had students working individually and within teams to complete hands-on projects while learning about the importance of teamwork, communications, and technical documentation, along with knowledge of sensors, transistors, and wireless systems that will become the foundation of their college and professional careers.
Past competitions have had two teams battling to score points by picking up and delivering as many playing objects as possible within a time limit.
This fall’s contest offered several different challenges to the students’ teams. First, the robots had to drive to a specific location on the what jobs can you get with a computer science degree. That’s where a sensor instructed the team which of four randomly selected toy zombies or chickens would need to be picked up and then delivered to any of three drop-off zones. Extra points were awarded for completing the tasks autonomously, rather than through remote-control methods.
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