This article was featured on the front page of the Rutgers Electrical and Computer Engineering department website.
Spring semester 2010: my sophmore year
I'm in the red Rutgers shirt and our team got to meet Grant Imahara from the televsion series Mythbusters.

ECE Students Compete in Vex Robotics World Championship

The Vex Robotics College Challenge World Championship is a gathering of top college robotics teams from around the world to celebrate their accomplishments and host a robotics competition. This year's Championship was held in Dallas, Texas from April 22 through April 24.

ECE students Michael Koval and Alex Weiner with MAE student Nitish Thatte travelled to Dallas and competed with 29 other college teams for the title of world champion.   After three days of competition, Rutgers had 7 wins and 2 losses placing the team 10th out of 29 overall, and tied for third place if considering only win/loss records.

The Rutgers Team was also awarded the College Challenge Innovate Award for developing the HAX (Hardware Abstraction for Vex) abstraction layer and programming all of the competition software on MacOS and Linux computers.

For more information see the IEEE Robotics Homepage and the IEEE Robotics Vex competition preparation.

Congratulations to Michael Koval, Alex Weiner, Nitish Thatte and the entire IEEE Robotics Club !