Seeking Upper Kanawha Valley Students Grades 9-12. Community Aviation Team opportunity. Solving world problems. Please call 304-590-9291 for more information. The Challenge for the year 2014-2015: ******We are providing $50,000 scholarships from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to each student on the national winning team. ******We are providing a $1,000 stipend to the teacher who best integrates the Real World Design Challenge into their curriculum. The Real World Design Challenge (RWDC) is an annual competition that provides high school students, grades 9-12, the opportunity to work on real world engineering challenges in a team environment. Each year, student teams will be asked to address a challenge that confronts our nations leading industries. Students will utilize professional engineering software to develop their solutions and will also generate presentations that convincingly demonstrate the value of their solutions. The RWDC provides students with opportunities to apply the lessons of the classroom to the technical problems that are being faced in the workplace. Challenge: This year’s challenge represents a means of identifying a strategy and associated unmanned aircraft system (UAS) design for the targeted application of pesticides to ensure the health of the crops from predation, while reducing the negative effects of blanketed, broad-based application. Unmanned systems, including UAS, unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), and other robotic systems, represent remotely controlled assets used to perform tasks requiring precision and repetitive function, operations in environments carrying a high degree of risk, or tasks beyond the capability of manned platforms (i.e., dull, dirty, and dangerous). There are multiple private companies, researchers, and governments developing unmanned systems to perform a variety of tasks, including precision agriculture, conservation, wildlife monitoring, damage assessment, infrastructure inspection, and research. One common focus of such development is the integration of a diverse mix of components and capabilities into a single, unified framework. While the uses, designs, and operations of the systems vary, they all rely on a common organizational composition based on payload (e.g., sensors, manipulation component, and transported material), remote vehicle, command, control, and communication (C3), support equipment, and crew.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:11:31 +0000