CSUN continued to excel at the Intelligent Ground Vehicle competition, sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and the U.S. Army’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC). The competition requires teams to design and build an autonomous ground vehicle,[Read more…]
Student Competitions: Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition
Student Competitions: SS12 Code for a Cause
What started as a project for a student competition has ended up as an Android mobile app available through the Google Play store, thanks to the success of five CSUN computer science students. The students, who were initially coached by tutorial coordinator Doris Chaney and later by assistant professor of computer science Adam Kaplan, entered the SS12 Code for a Cause competition, sponsored by Project Possibility, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating open source software for people with disabilities. [Read more…]
Student Competitions: Steel Bridge
CSUN’s Steel Bridge team upheld a long, proud campus tradition by qualifying for the national competition for the 11th time in 15 years. The competition, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers, requires teams to design, fabricate and build a scaled steel bridge in response to a mock request for proposal. The bridge is then judged on such characteristics as stiffness, lightness, construction speed, aesthetics, efficiency and economy. [Read more…]
Student Competitions: Cybersecurity competitions
They call themselves Layer 8—a club that strives to go beyond the existing seven layers of cybersecurity by learning different defensive and offensive computer and network security protocols. And although they have only been an official club since May 2012, they have already been making a name for themselves in cybersecurity competitions. [Read more…]