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When it comes to senior design, there are many tasks one has to constantly be aware of and be able to overcome. Deadlines, design reports, sponsorship packets, executive summaries and advisement presentations — on top of actually designing the product you were set out to create in the first place. With such a full plate of work to do, it is very…

For the past three years, I have been working as an undergraduate research assistant for Professor Pierre Larochelle in the Robotics and Spatial Systems Laboratory at FIT. Not only is this a fantastic resume builder, but I have also gotten tons of learning experience working with different robots like Pantherbot and Mottoman. This job has also landed me internships like…

Although many students at first aren’t too crazy about the area the school is in, Melbourne has a lot to offer in terms of entertainment and culture. So even though many students call the town Mel-boring, I however, love this cute little town that has so much to offer no matter what your interests or hobbies are. For example, a…

With senior design projects, and the final core classes needed to graduate (WHOOHOOO!!!) it’s very simple to get caught up in the same rut of only thinking how we’ve been taught to do for the past four years. As an engineer, we always have to think analytically, focusing on math, numbers and equations that always have a concrete answer. And…

After a long and relaxing winter break, I jumped right back into my very last semester of my undergraduate career ready to keep working furiously on my senior design project. Before winter break, my senior design team and I had managed to design an almost-finished concept of our Rover and UAV combo, write up our Critical Design Review paper, and…

If you are one of those types of people who doesn’t mind getting down in the mud and enjoys driving over anything other than asphalt, then the SAE Mini Baha senior design project is just for you. The Mini Baha makes up another third of the Florida Tech Motorsports family, along with the Drag Car project. However, unlike the Drag…

Florida Tech administration and students were really excited to establish our very first panther football team back in my freshman year. With the advancements the football team has made, and this being their second year competing against other teams, the school stands strong to support its team in any way. This year, the mechanical engineering department at Florida Tech decided…

Apart from cars and robots, Florida Tech’s senior design also dives into new and developing technologies in order to further develop and contribute to a possible growing market. In previous years, Florida Tech has worked on various technologies such as developing a black box for Northrop Grumman and a portable, man-powered water purifier for the Water for the World program.…

For the past few years, Florida Tech has invested a very large part of the motorsports budget and dedication into one of the largest collegiate design and race competitions held in various locations around the world: Formula SAE. This senior design project is also the one with the largest student team behind it, in hopes of placing in the top…

For the past three years, Florida Tech has been a part of NASA’s annual NASAbotics competition, formerly known as NASA’s Lunabotics competition. Florida Tech has been progressively improving in this competition, moving up in placement from fifth to second place last year, and with hopes of taking over and winning the competition this year. This multidisciplinary team consists of mechanical,…