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Coming Up Soon: The 2008 NAIT/IJME Annual Conference
The 2008 NAIT/IJME Annual Conference is November 18-22, 2008, at the Airport
Marriott in Nashville, TN. The 2008 IJME Conference is co-located with the
NAIT conference this year, and IJME sessions will be scheduled on
Wednesday, November 19, 2008. There will be a registration discount if you
want to attend both conferences.
For more information on the Conference, click
here to visit the
2008 NAIT Conference web site. Click
here to visit the IJME web site.
Collaborative Research Page
In order to facilitate collaboration between EECT members who have similar research interests,
the EECT web site now features a Collaborative Research page listing the
interests and contact info of some of its members. Please visit the page
(fourth button down on the left navigation bar), and then email the
EECT webmaster to have
your name and research interests added to the list.
EECT List Serve
The
EECT List Serve provides
a safe and convenient way for our members to communicate on a continuing
basis.
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Congratulations to Millersville University of Pennsylvania!
Winner of the 2007 Best Electrical/Control Methodology Robotics Award
Congratulations are in order for the NAIT student chapter from Millersville University
of Pennsylvania, who won 1st place in Electrical/Control Methodology, 1st place for Best Poster, and 3rd
place in the overall robotics competition.
Pictured below is the robot, called Magnet Finder 1 (MF-1), that beat all the competition in the tele-operated and
fully-autonomous robotic manipulator contest. The goal of the competition was for the manipulator to sense and
find a magnet in the sand, and place a steel NAIT pin on it. The MF-1 utilized a
metal detector, a digital compass and a vision system along with three separate
wireless control frequencies (Vision, Compass Data and Drive/Actuator).
There are five equally-weighted criteria in the
rubric for the Best Electrical/Control Methodology Award:
- Use of Sophisticated Electrical/Control Components
- Innovation of Design
- Design Methodology Soundness
- Craftsmanship
- Documentation
The complete grading rubric can be viewed by clicking
here.
Winning team members include: Emily Colburn, Heather Heltzinger, Josh Hosier,
John Jenkins, Juan Rodriguez, Greg Schmell, Ale Sgro, Stephen Sickel, and Matt
Wince.
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