27 May 2010

Building a Team for DARPA Grand Challenges

Dr. Jayfus Doswell will conduct a live virtual presentation in NASA MICI at 3pm eastern time on June 9, 2010.  Dr. Doswell, is the founder of Juxtopia, a non-profit organization dedicated to to advancing underserved and disadvantaged learning and application of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) proficiency.  He will discuss how he organized the first Historically Black College and University (HBCU) team to compete in the DARPA Grand Challenge.  Dr. Doswell will explain how he mentored engineering students from Morgan State University Baltimore, Maryland to build an Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle (UAV) to compete in this contest.

His presentation will cover: how he helped organize the team, the goals of the competition, the obstacles students faced, and the impact the competition had upon the students.
He will also detail how the students had to:
1) Design the autonomous vehicle using CAD/CAM.
2) Purchase a vehicle.
3) Re-engineer the vehicle to accommodate the design defined in step #1.
4)Test the vehicle across a number of urban areas around Baltimore, Maryland.
5) Compete in the DARPA Urban Grand Challenge on November 3, 2007.
6) Expose inner city middle and high school age youth to autonomous vehicles and how math and science skills learned in the classroom may be applied to design/build these exciting type of robots.

This presentation will be open to Questions and Answers at the conclusion.  It is free to any student or faculty member registered in NASA MICI.  To register and/or attend this presentation visit NASAMICIconference.com

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