What

The fuck
Are we doing

I don’t know either; I just do powerpoints

University Rover Challenge
● Send fake mars rovers to fake mars for real
missions!
● Compete against engineering schools with
CAD software worth more than my car!
● Fail because you’re relying on the same
unreliable wifi link as Stamford and Cornell!
● Rule loopholes you can drive a BFR through!
How do we compete against
top engineering schools
with no engineers?
Lateral thinking!
And rules abuse.
Lots of rules abuse.
(And maybe a little help from the community college)
Many teams are well
funded but
SHOCKINGLY
INCOMPETENT.
Even completing events is
successful for a rookie
team.
Seriously, this team flew over 7,500 miles to compete.

The rover’s all floppy.

How did this even happen?

But how?

➔ Build a team
Money. Personnel. Faculty. Power.
Influence. Capybaras. Porcupines. Wait,
where was I?

➔ Build cool shit

It’s not what we make; it’s that we make
it .
We have eighteen months.
We’re building a robot for URC 2022.
The rules aren’t released until
September.

How do we prepare?
Create stuff!
Building useful industrial projects
ingratiates us to the design
department and potentially serves
many more.
An open mandate and
other people’s money.
We’re building things to prove we can -
and learn how in the process.

What do you want to make?

You want to build it but
don’t have the skills or
resources?
This is Daniel’s old design homework.

We’re building it.

And sending it to NIOSH to compete for

$40,000 in grants.
We’re building
respiratory sensors,
3d printing new
impellers, and
including users in the
process.
Don’t know?
Come learn.
We don’t expect you to know
three-phase wiring, 3D printing,
current shunts, and T-shirt cannons.

After all, we’re not engineering

students either.
We need you!
Whatever your program, major, or interests, we
need your skills - on projects we haven’t even
dreamed of.
Even this doofus presenter in com photo.