This year, the Florida A & M University-Florida State University
College of Engineering is continuing its interdisciplinary
collaboration between the Electrical/Computer Engineering and the
Mechanical Engineering Departments for their Senior Design Projects.
The goal of the project is to expose senior students to the
concepts of design, project management, engineering team
organization, and professionalism.
Five undergraduate students from both universities have been
selected to participate in this project, as well as five graduate
students for advising and construction assistance. The requirements
of the Lunar Regolith Excavator Student Competition are as follows:
design a robot capable of excavating 10 kg of regolith in 15 minutes
while weighing less than 80 kg.
The team is tasked with creating a robot capable of meeting and
exceeding all requirements set forth by NASA for the competition. As
the students are designing, constructing, synthesizing and analyzing
their robot, they will perform community outreach for K-12 grade
students in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
(STEM).