Team 10

ENGR 0715 - Engineering applications for Society

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Rebecca S. Belan

Mary E. Biddle

Michael R. Fehr

Bradley W. Lyons

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Team 10 at E-Week

Final Report

(From Left to Right) Mike Fehr, Mary Biddle, Brad Lyons, and Rebecca Belan

Community Partner

Our community partner for this project is the Carnegie Science Center

Project Description

Design a robot aimed at gradeschool age children out of Lego Mindstorms for exhibition at the Carnegie Science Center during Engineers' Week 2009. In addition, our team will be helping the Carnegie Science Center refine their exhisting Summer Camps in robotics for ages 8-9 and 10-12.

Problem Statement

Engineering Week, or E-week, is a nationally recognized week in February devoted to engineers and the engineering sciences. The Carnegie Science Center each year during E-week invites engineers and engineering groups to present small table top presentations to the public to help build interest in today’s youth about engineering. Professor Daniel Budny, under the employ of the University of Pittsburgh, wishes that our group will utilize Lego’s Mindstorms Robotics to create this table top display for the University’s presentation. The design should be interactive as well as helpful in educating youth about engineering and should attract said individuals to the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering. This process is to be done with the Mindstorms parts available, utilize a C style of programming language, and be finished by E-week in February. As requested by the Carnegie Science Center, the team will refine various parts of the exhisting lesson plan utilized in the science center’s summer camps in the new Roboworld exhibit as well as find/create a robot kitfor the take home portion of the classes. For a more detailed process layout please reference the Statement of Work and the Gantt chart sections.

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