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2019 Ieee Southeastcon Hardware Competition: A Systems Engineering Approach, Emily Sage
2019 Ieee Southeastcon Hardware Competition: A Systems Engineering Approach, Emily Sage
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Huntsville section invites college students to participate in their annual SoutheastCon Conference. Western Kentucky University sends a team of engineering students to the hardware competition, an opportunity for students to design and build autonomous robots. The 2019 hardware competition called for students to develop a robot that could collect and sort debris by color. This thesis outlines the project lifecycle of the WKU 2019 SoutheastCon robot with an emphasis on implemented systems engineering tools and techniques. Systems Engineering is an interdisciplinary approach to project management that focuses on treating the overall project …