Our Mission
In the Fundamentals of Engineering 1182.01 course, the team was challenged to design and create an Advanced Energy Vehicle (AEV) for a given scenario that would efficiently complete the task and run on minimal energy. Each week, the team completed a lab through which the AEV was slowly designed, crafted, and tested.
The given scenario had a ‘Star Wars’ theme. The goal was to construct an AEV that would run on a monorail to transport R2D2 units and help the Galactic Empire rebuild their army following the destruction of the Death Star. The AEV has to be very efficient because there is limited power due to the ‘base’ being on a remote planet.
The AEV had to be designed to start on one side of a track, glide to the given sensors, open the gate, pick up a R2D2, move in the opposite direction, and then stop at the sensors where the AEV had first started. The team had to write a program and create an efficient, lightweight, and sleek design that would minimize the amount of energy needed to power the AEV.
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