This annual event, now shortened to
RoPro
, takes place on February in Nedderman Hall in conjunction with the beginning of UTA's Engineering Week activities.
In addition to the simple original navigation contest, we now have also an object finding contest for the autonomous robots and a more challenging navigation contest in which the maze has virtual walls.
The competing teams have included students of many ethnicities and genders.
With our years of experience now, we are very excited about this year's Sixth Annual
RoPro
Robotic Programming Contest
which will be held on Saturday, February 4, 2006 in the Nedderman Hall atrium.
We will be contacting high schools again to invite them to join us once more and new high schools are always welcome to contact us if they are interested in joining the competition.
Additional information about RoPro, the Robot Programming Contest, can be found at the website below or through the activities link of the CSE@UTA website.
Presentation of RoPro 2003 Contest
Picture Gallery of RoPro 2002 Winners
Webtronics Competition Multi-Media Web Development Contest In the 2005-2006 school year we are adding a new high school and community college competition which is designed to recruit students into our Software Engineering degree program. This contest, called the Webtronics competition, will allow students to design and build websites for specific purposes. The competition will be judged on not only the website design but also its functionality and the quality of the documentation produced as part of the competition. The Webtronics competition demos will be held in conjunction with RoPro on February 4th, 2006 although contest entries must be submitted electronically two weeks prior to the competition date. Details for this contest can be found at the website below or through the events link of the CSE@UTA website.
Field Trips
After the RoPro contest some years, we have hosted high school students - from schools that had competed in RoPro - on field trip visits. The students have heard a presentation about the MavHome project from CSE and visited the Wave Scattering Lab (EE), the SAE Race Car team (MAE and others), the Nanotechnology Fabrication Lab (EE), and the Robotics Lab (EE). We also provide information about the CSE department at UTA. We were very pleased to have had so many students come visit and we have heard that the visits have inspired a few of them to come to school here. Yay!
If you would like to arrange a field trip for students to visit us at CSE@UTA, contact Dr. Tiernan (tiernan@cse.uta.edu) or Sally Hoelke in the UTA College of Engineering Counseling and Advising Center (smhoelke@uta.edu).
We are always looking for more ways to interact with potential CSE@UTA students. If you have an interest and would like more information, please feel free to contact me at 817-272-3588 or by e-mail tiernan@cse.uta.edu.
