Welcome FIRST Teams
Welcome FRC team members! We hope you take a minute to see why you might be interested in robotics and technology at UDM. Please check out:
- UDM's commitment to FIRST
- UDM's recent robotics competition wins
- Why you should consider UDM's Engineering programs
- Who you might want to talk to
UDM believes in the mission of FIRST
UDM's College of Engineering & Science (E&S) has been mentoring FRC teams since 1997's Toroid Terror and supporting the Michigan FIRST LEGO League program since 1999.
Our commitment to robotics extends into our undergraduate and graduate engineering programs where FIRST students can continue their passion.
Good luck this year to all FIRST teams!
Recent UDM robotics triumphs
Here are a couple of UDM students' accomplishments from 2008...
2008 IGVC Champions
The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) is an international competition for universities, and the UDM team were the champs in 2008! UDM's μCERTOPS team created a fully autonomous, unmanned ground robotic vehicle that could perceive its outdoor environment (no remote control!) and negotiate istelf around an obstacle course.
The IGVC is one of the great design experiences you can have at UDM that is on the cutting edge of engineering education. It is multidisciplinary, theory-based, hands-on, team-implemented, outcome-assessed, and based on product realization.
Forty-one national and international IGVC teams competed in June of 2008. UDM earned the Grand Prize.
2008 ASME Student Design Contest Winners
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) sponsors an annual student design competition. UDM's mechanical engineering team placed first in the Northeast District with their autonomous window washer based on the VEX robotics platform.
The UDM team will go on to compete at the national competition in Boston, October 2008. Pictured is the winning team, which includes two former FRC students from Team RUSH (#27) and da Bears (#247).
Take your passion all the way!
If you like robotics, science and technology, you owe it to yourself to check out the Engineering programs at University of Detroit Mercy (UDM). As an Engineering student at UDM, you'll learn how to design, build and improve machines, circuits and systems of all kinds.
At UDM, we want you to be a system-designing-technology-developing-alternative-fueled-solutions-generator!
Here are a few of UDM's programs that might excite you:
We'd love to talk to you.
To talk to someone about robotics, engineering, UDM, or anything FIRST-related, contact:
- Jonathan Weaver, Chair of Mechanical Engineering, 313-993-3372, weaverjm@udmercy.edu
- Mark Paulick, Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 313-993-3365, paulikmj@udmercy.edu
- Katherine Snyder, Chair of Mathematics and Computer Science, 313-993-1503, snyderke@udmercy.edu
- Dan Maggio, Pre-College Program Director and MI FLL Tournament Partner, 313-993-1435, maggiodd@udmercy.edu
- Admissions, 1-800-635-5020
- Visit Day Information.
Good luck to all FIRST teams!
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