Over the past several years our UMKC IEEE Robotics team and the UMKC IEEE student chapter has substantially increased the number of SCE students, both currently enrolled and alumni, involved in STEM outreach activities. Sharing their passion for programming, gizmos, gadgets and robots, IEEE student organization and team activities were featured in the UMKC Today [...]
The UMKC-IEEE Robotics Team participated in the Annual IEEE Region 5 Business Meeting and Student Competitions which were held in Baton Rouge, LA on April 15-17, 2011. The student competitions featured a variety activities ranging from paper presentations, poster contests, circuit design competition, ethics competition, to the popular robotics competition and an SPAC (Student [...]
What started as a joint venture five months ago between the IEEE Student Branches at KU and UMKC will come to fruition next Saturday, February 5 when UMKC hosts the Student Professional Awareness Conference (SPAC) in the theater in our new UMKC Student Union. World class speakers are scheduled to talk about their experiences with [...]
Matthew Parish, Madhurima Poddar and Kevin Wisniewski – team UMKCPLUSPLUS – competed in the 24 hour competition – IEEExtreme 4.0. IEEExtreme involved teams from all of the world with 971 registered teams, 756 of which submitted at least one problem. There were a total of 17 problems in the competition with new problems released throughout [...]
The UMKC SCE IEEE Robotics Team traveled to the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, MO on Aug. 15th. They manned an information booth and gave a demo of their robot that they took to an IEEE competition last April in Grapevine, Texas. Many folks visited with our UMKC SCE IEEE team at the ShowMe Robots event in the Assembly Hall [...]
At the April 18, 2009 IEEE-R5 Annual Meeting & Green Technology Conference at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, UMKC SCE entered two events – the annual Robotics Competition and the Student Paper Contest. Jim Surber, a SCE undergraduate Electrical Computer Engineering student, entered a paper titled Better Clarity in Spinal Imaging. The judges were very [...]
