College of Louisiana at Lafayette’s School of Engineering has created a sophisticated studying alternative for STEM college students in Lafayette Parish College System.
Beginning this yr, UL Lafayette college members and researchers from a number of School of Engineering departments will lead weekend mentorship periods in design and robotics
The Ramageddon Robotics crew will obtain educational steering, analysis experience and help for Lafayette Parish College System college students who compete in high-level robotics competitions. The initiative additionally features a $10,000 reward to the crew.
Led by Philip Ryland, the Ramageddon Robotics crew is comprised of scholars from a number of LPSS campuses. These campuses embody college students from Acadiana, Comeaux, Lafayette, Southside and the David Thibodaux STEM Magnet Academy excessive colleges. College students from close by parishes and homeschooled college students additionally take part.
The competitions additionally assist aspiring engineers achieve “real-world” engineering expertise and develop management abilities, mentioned Ryland, a instructor on the W.D. and Mary Baker Smith Profession Heart and lead mentor for Ramageddon Robotics.
Dr. Ahmed Khattab, dean of the college’s School of Engineering, mentioned that the school’s help of the Ramageddon Robotics crew represents “an funding that guarantees quite a few returns for the way forward for the engineering discipline, and we’re proud to be part of it.”
Workforce members design, construct, program and check industrial-sized robots. The hands-on instruction and steering will embody entry to laboratories and specialised gear on UL Lafayette’s campus.
“That is just the start,” Superintendent Francis Touchet, Jr. mentioned. “Lafayette Parish is lucky to have a college in our space to accomplice with and we look ahead to increasing these alternatives that enable our college students to excel.”