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Session Description

Free ticketed event
This workshop is based on a successful, 100-level introductory course for mechanical engineering students at Cal Poly, Pomona. In this course, students build and program an Arduino-compatible robot. They learn about gears, assemble a gearbox, get introduced to basic electronics, circuitry and soldering, build a robot, integrate sensors, and learn to program in C. In addition, students design and build attachments for the robot using a 3-D printer.

In this workshop, participants will work in teams of two to build and program the robot. They must bring a laptop computer so they can program their robot.

Speakers

1. Dr. Mariappan Jawaharlal

   California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

   Mariappan "Jawa" Jawaharlal is a professor of mechanical engineering at California State Polytechnic University and recognized as an outstanding educator for his innovative and engaging teaching pedagogy. Before joining Cal Poly, Pomona, he founded and developed APlusStudent.com, Inc., an online supplemental education company focusing on K-12 math. He also served as a faculty member at Rowan University and at Kettering University.

2. Dr. Paul Morrow Nissenson

   California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

   Dr. Nissenson is an expert in the field of e-learning who taught the first MOOC course at Cal Poly, Pomona. He also has taught the freshman robotics course that this workshop addresses.