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Our September meeting will be a joint one with the student chapter at UNC-Charlotte. The date is September 20 and the time is 6:30 PM. Jon Tedesco, of Keyence, will be doing a presentation on the topic of surface analysis. … Continue reading →

Hello wonderful volunteers, I hope everyone is having a great summer. As some of you might know, the NC Off-Season FRC event known as THOR (Thundering Herd Of Robots) is coming soon, and this year there will be two separate … Continue reading →

Students took a break from their research to celebrate recent successes at Dr Williams house with some food and gaming: -Alzarrio successfully defended his Master’s thesis -Pushkar received a job offer from JMAG in Japan -Kang received a Hydropower scholarship … Continue reading →

My colleagues Dr. Aidan Browne and Jim Conrad recently had their paper on robotics education efforts published in IEEE Access.  This work spanned multiple years and was supported by the Department of Labor Mission Critical Operations Grant. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7890432/ Aidan and … Continue reading →

Cameron Nye graduated with his MS in Applied Energy and Electromechanical Systems this May.  Cameron was a long time research assistant on the Mission Critical Operations project funded by the Department of Labor, where his contributions earned him Graduate Research … Continue reading →

Casey Nichols joins the magnetic gearing research team for the summer, after being awarded a NC Space Grant undergraduate research scholarship.  Casey is as Mechanical Engineering Technology major who was recently recognized as an outstanding junior at the ET department … Continue reading →

Students from the magnetic gearing research group presented at the annual NC Renewable Ocean Energy Program symposium in Wanchese, NC earlier this month.