Jacobs School of Engineering undergrads inwards the MAE 3 shape this quarter had their robot competitor today over inwards the basketball courts at the one-time gym (check out the sugariness pano-photo on the MAE3 course of written report site linked above). We caught some of the students carting (literally) their robots, as well as plastic monkey trees as well as monkey cages across Warren Mall. The elevate of the robot contest? “Planet of the Apes Robot Contest.”
Zach Johnson, a sophomore bioengineering major, was business office of Team Catastrophe…though the robot competitor was anything only for him. He as well as sophomore bioengineer Jeff Lim, from Team Hazard, agreed that the robot competitor was a neat finals calendar week project, peculiarly since their grades were non riding on their, or their robots’ performance. Students were evaluated in conclusion calendar week based on their robot effectiveness.
Check out YouTube videos of all the teams, including Team Hazard’s perfect run!
We also ran into (and photographed) 2 of the department tutors for the class, Sara Taghizadeh (below), a senior mechanical engineering major, as well as Sam Jafarian (behind the cart), a minute yr mechanical engineering major who joked dorsum as well as forth alongside each other equally a crowd of pre- as well as post-exam students passed past times their big cart loaded downwardly to a greater extent than robots, trees as well as plastic-monkey cages.
This course of written report introduces the fundamentals of engineering graphics as well as the design. Emphasis is placed on applying engineering tools to pattern as well as fabrication of working machines. Course stuff volition live centered some 2 projects:
Model Clock Project (2.5 weeks): Students volition role AutoCAD to pattern an escapement bike as well as pendulum for a model clock, as well as brand the model using store tools.
Robot Design Project (7.5 weeks): Teams of students volition pattern as well as gear upward a machine for a competitor using DC motors, solenoids, as well as fabrication tools.
