Student Tribune

MCC Engineering Teams Won a National title at ASEE Engineering Design Competition

The Robotics Club from Monroe Community College placed third at the national 2024 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Two-Year College Division Engineering Design Competition in Portland, Oregon, on June 24.

Each student team will design and build an autonomous “Beaver Bot” robot to knock down 12 (popsicle sticks) trees and transport these sticks to either the river or pond areas of the 4’ by 8’ plywood play field. A circuitous black line path (electrical tape) is provided on the play field to assist the Beaver Bot in finding the 12 trees, the river, and the pond. Each tree is held nearly upright by 3D printed tree bases (or stumps). The robot must adhere to the rules of the model design competition which includes an exhibition session.

The objective of this competition is for students to experientially appreciate the challenges in every step of the engineering design process from start to finish. Designing and building something from an idea is probably why they chose engineering in the first place. This design competition is a platform to reinforce valuable classroom principles.

Professor David Pultorak and Geoff Berl prepared and led the team: Christopher Gillette, Brandon Nguyen, Clayton Behlok, and Tedy Sugar, to the competition and secured the national championship.

The ESP department would also like to acknowledge the Office of Student Life for the funding support.

ASEE is the premier multidisciplinary society for individuals and organizations committed to advancing excellence in all aspects of engineering and engineering technology education.

For more information, please visit the ASEE website (www.asee.org).

Kumar, Christopher
Engineering Science and Physics
06/26/2024