Intelligent Systems Club Update

[Intelligent Systems Club | UofM-Dearborn]

Hello everyone in ISC,

Thank you for a fantastic year! As we begin to approach a summer filled with IGVC work, summer jobs/internships, vacations, and summer classes, ISC will continue to be meeting throughout the summer!

Before we look on to the future, lets look back to what we have accomplished this year!

Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition | Oakland University, Rochester, MI

June 6th - 9th, 2014

Team Ohm 2.0 | Angelo Bertani, Team Lead

Zachary DeGeorge, Yanchen Shang, Erik Aitken

Place: 2nd, Auto-Nav Challenge

Award: $2,000

Autonomous Snowplow Competition | St. Paul, MN

January 22nd - 25th, 2015

Team Zenith 2.0 | Benjamin Pollatz, Team Lead

Jason Spurlock, Parham Moassesi, Scott Zwally, Ryan Sheen

Place: 1st Overall

Award: $7,000 + Golden Snow Globe Award

Autonomous Snowplow Competition | St. Paul, MN
January 22nd - 25th, 2015

Team Yeti 5.0 | Erik Aitken, Team Lead

Angelo Bertani, Jean Paul Denoyer, Samir Assofe, Nasser Obad, Wesam Haddad, Abdulaziz Abuzir

Place: 2nd Overall

Award: $4,000 + Silver Snow Globe Award

Autonomous Aerial Vehicle Competition | Dayton, OH

April 28th - 29th, 2015

UAV Team | Trevor Lerner, Lead

Nicolas Rosa, Miguel Rocha, Brandon Haycock, Jason Spurlock, ISC

Professor Samir Rawashdeh, Benjamin Dale, Dmitri Sandler, Saeid Jafari, from Dr. Rawashdeh's Research Team

Place: 3rd Overall

Award: $2,600

This year, 21 students teamed up to continue to show that the University of Michigan - Dearborn students are truly the Leaders and Best. By applying what we learn in the classroom, with help from our awesome faculty in the ECE Department, including our faculty advisor Dr. Nattu Natarajan and also Dr. Samir Rawashdeh, we were able to represent the College of Engineering and Computer Science through our results, which includes over $15,000 in prize money! 

Apart from our competitions, we also had many changes this year, including our move to a brand new lab space in the Institute for Advance Vehicle Systems. We also engaged in several outreach programs for the university, including Maker Faire Detroit, Engineering Experience Day, Celebrate Engineering Day, and other outreach programs for several area schools, such as Robichaud High School in Dearborn Heights and Henry Ford Elementary in Dearborn.

That being said, we are looking forward to another great year! Now that the summer semester is in full swing, our new president and leaders will continue to promote excellence through learning. While Jason Spurlock was going to take the Presidential role, he decided to concentrate on his classes this semester. Thus, Parham Moassesi will be taking over as President of the club! I have full confidence in Parham's abilities to manage and lead the team going forward, as well as Jason's role in an advisory capacity.

The other leaders:

Executive of Business: Erik Aitken

Executive of Public Relations: Ken Yesh

Executive of Logistics: Ryan Sheen

Team Zenith: Ben Pollatz

Team Yeti: Erik Aitken

Team Ohm: Angelo Bertani

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle team: Trevor Lerner

While this year's IGVC is still in progress, looking forward to a great competition in the next few weeks, we have other projects that we would like to see happen this year, including an underwater ROV (MATE) and a NASA Mars Rover.

If you are interested in learning more about what we are doing this year, or have any specific questions, please feel free to reply to this email! I also want to encourage you all to attend the next general meeting on Monday, June 1st at 6:00 PM, or stop by the club room in the IAVS High Bay and check out some of our ongoing projects!

Thank you!

Ben Pollatz

Former President, Intelligent Systems Club

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