Congratulations to Laxmi! He won the 2018 ASME-CIE Graduate Research Poster Competition, and will be awarded $750 travel support to present his PhD research on the topic of “Design of Multi-Robot Systems with Evolving Multi-Level Constraints” during the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference in Quebec City, Canada, during August 26-29, 2018. There were 23 applications submitted this year, of which the top twelve were nominated for the awards.

I have been serving as a small group adviser of a group of five senior students on a capstone design project that is collaboratively conducted between another team of five senor EE students and Tyson Foods Inc. The project is to design a high-fidelity prototype of a conveyor system equipped with barcode scanning technique to automatically sort and transport packages to different destinations. In the 2nd annual Engineering Design Poster Competition held by the College of Engineering at the UA, our senior design team won the FIRST place. Congratulations to the them! Great team work.