Eglin AFB Campus Challenge

 Senior Design Opportunity

 

BYU has been invited to participate in the Eglin Air Force Base Campus Challenge.  The campus challenge is a competition between eight universities to produce the best design and technology development roadmap for a key technical challenge of interest to the Air Force.  This year, the challenge problem is

Miniature Self-Deploying Systems in Cluttered/Confined Environments.

We will be competing against teams from the following universities:  Georgia Tech, Ohio University, University of Colorado-Boulder, University of Florida, Florida State University, University of West Florida, and University of Alabama-Huntsville.  The top two universities will receive $150,000 to continue work on the project, which could lead to MS projects for interested students.

We need creative, hardworking, and technically skilled individuals to work on this project. 

The campus challenge is open to seniors in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, Chemical Engineering, and Computer Science.  For ECE and ME majors, the campus challenge will replace the quadrotor senior design project. 

In Fall 2009 we will research the challenge problem and generate a paper design for a compelling solution.  In Winter 2010 we will prototype portions of the proposed design, which we anticipate will include flying robotic systems.

To participate, students should enroll in ECE 493R for 3 credit hours each in Fall 2009 and Winter 2010.

Students interested in the project should talk to one of the following faculty members:

 

Prof. Randy Beard Electrical & Computer Eng. CB 450 beard@byu.edu 801-422-8392

Prof. Clark Taylor Electrical & Computer Eng. CB 449 taylor@ee.byu.edu 801-422-3903

Prof. Tim McLain Mechanical Eng. 435 CTB mclain@byu.edu 801-422-6536