The UMKC Robotics Team recently attended the IEEE Region 5 Robotics Competition, where they placed 2nd among the 23 teams in attendance. UMKC entered five robots in the 2015 competition held April 18, 2015.
This is UMKC’s 11th consecutive year to send a team to the competition. The event was held concurrently with the IEEE Region 5 Business Meeting and Conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in New Orleans, LA. In 2016, the conference and competition will be held in Kansas City, MO.
UMKC teams held the top two rankings in the ‘Fast Rat’ division through the qualifiers.
The top placing team from UMKC (UMKC 1) consisted of team members Matt Justus, Eric Gonzalez, Ryan Rouse, and Darren Cogan. A short video of their robot competing in the final qualification round is available online. The final results from the competition are listed below.
Other robots present (by order of placement), were:
- UMKC 3 (Connor Murphy, Kristen Bilgere, Stephanie Retzke, and Josh Herndon)
- UMKC 5 (Mladen Kojic, Chuck Collins, Josh Wears, Ryan Hamilton, and Sam Ringwood) (Senior Design Team)
- UMKC 2 (Scott McElfresh, Calvin Seever, Chase Peterson, and Chris Denniston)
- UMKC 4 (Michael Mahoney, Feras Alabdalla, Innocent Nsoh-Awasom, Brian Ruggiero, and John Koech) (Senior Design Team)
Chris Wolfe served as the project manager overseeing the progress of teams 1, 2 and 3.
Assistant Project Manager, Cody Kaspzyk, while unable to attend the competition this year, still served a vital role in organizing the teams.
Other UMKC students in attendance were Eric Godsil, Katie Graham, Colin MacDonald, Jacob Smith, and Matthew Mohler.
UMKC staff member Debby Dilks has advised the UMKC Robotics Team since it’s inception in 2004, and traveled with the team to New Orleans. SCE Associate Professor Reza Derakhshani served as the faculty adviser for the senior design teams, UMKC 4 and UMKC 5.
UMKC Robotics is a multi-disciplinary competition team including students from the Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science degree programs.
The senior design teams consist of senior students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering program.
Congratulations to all teams on a job well done!
Below are the final rankings:
1. University of Louisiana at Lafayette
2. UMKC Team 1
3. Lousiana State University
4. LeTourneau University
5. University of Houston Team 1
6. UMKC Team 3
11. UMKC Team 5
16. UMKC Team 2
16. UMKC Team 4
Other universities in attendance included:
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Texas at Tyler
- University of Houston
- Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville
- Oklahoma Christian University
- Lamar University
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