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UA, Shelton State students take top prize at NASA lunar robot competition (video)
The Alabama Lunabotics team beat out more than 50 teams to earn the Joe Kosmo Award for Excellence at the third annual NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition.
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ProfessorAl said...
Thought you might like to know:
The UA engineering team, consisting of students from Electrical, Computer, and Mechanical engineering, won the 2012 NASA Robotic Lunar Mining championship on Saturday at the Kennedy Space Center. UA won 1st place in a field that consisted of approximately 70 teams from some of the top engineering schools from all over the world (US, India, South Korea, Mexico, Canada, Bangladesh, Columbia).
As the faculty advisor for this team, I can say UA engineering is on the rise and these students represented UA in a top-notch manner in every possible way.
The UA team placed 1st in the presentation category, 1st in team spirit, 2nd in mining, honorable mention (top 3) for innovation for their robot design, and 1st overall.
This is a tough competition having to navigate a robot through simulated Lunar soil having obstacles such as large rocks and craters, then collecting soil and transporting it to a collection bin where it is deposited and weighed. Time limit is 10 minutes.
Details of the competition can be found on youtube, facebook, etc by searching for 2012 NASA Lunabotics Competition. I included a facebook link NASA used to disseminate info related to the competiton.
Auburn participated and UA beat them in EVERY CATEGORY!
I am proud to be part of this effort and will continue to work to improve UA engineering in every way.
Roll Tide!!!!
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ProfessorAl said...
Thought you might like to know:
The UA engineering team, consisting of students from Electrical, Computer, and Mechanical engineering, won the 2012 NASA Robotic Lunar Mining championship on Saturday at the Kennedy Space Center. UA won 1st place in a field that consisted of approximately 70 teams from some of the top engineering schools from all over the world (US, India, South Korea, Mexico, Canada, Bangladesh, Columbia).
As the faculty advisor for this team, I can say UA engineering is on the rise and these students represented UA in a top-notch manner in every possible way.
The UA team placed 1st in the presentation category, 1st in team spirit, 2nd in mining, honorable mention (top 3) for innovation for their robot design, and 1st overall.
This is a tough competition having to navigate a robot through simulated Lunar soil having obstacles such as large rocks and craters, then collecting soil and transporting it to a collection bin where it is deposited and weighed. Time limit is 10 minutes.
Details of the competition can be found on youtube, facebook, etc by searching for 2012 NASA Lunabotics Competition. I included a facebook link NASA used to disseminate info related to the competiton. I added the team's website.
Auburn participated and UA beat them in EVERY CATEGORY!
I am proud to be part of this effort and will continue to work to improve UA engineering in every way.
Roll Tide!!!!
Roll Tide!
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Uncle Rico said...
This is awesome! One more thing I get to rub in the face of all the booger engineers I work with. They always laugh when someone brings up UA engineering. Commercial space travel is really big at my company. We need good young engineers to keep it going so my employee stock will go through the roof!!! Haha... Roll Tide Professor!
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