ASME FIU Student Section - Design Project Competition
Mine Madness - ASME Student Design Contest 2004
Mechanical Design I Class Fall 2003:
Farvet, Michael -
Harvey, Kirk -
Infante, Fernando -
Jaramillo, Fernando -
Martinez, Rosalee -
Melo, Christian -
Natsui, Edward -
Reid, Dennisha -
Salick, Nigel Devindra -
Sirpal, Parikshat -
Valdez, Neida Xicxi -
Vargas, Mauricio Alejandro -
Vesga, Juan Pablo.
Team A: Kangaroo
Kirk Harvey -
Parikshat Sirpal -
Mauricio Vargas -
Juan P. Vesga.
Team B: Hole in the Pocket
Fernando Infante -
Fernando Jaramillo -
Neida Valdez.
Team C: Frankestein
Michael Farvet -
Rosalee Martinez -
Christian Melo.
Team D: The Big Wheel
Edward Natsui -
Dennisha Reid -
Nigel Salick.
Robotics Class Fall 2003:
Dede, Can -
Marini, Hector -
Puligari, Chandrasekar -
Senior, Andre -
Ye, Shusheng -
Garcia, Ricardo -
Martinez, Sandra -
Mora, Alejandro -
Potens, Brandon -
Szuri, Laszlo -
Wojcik, Patrick.
Team 1: Double Jeopardy
Brandon Potens -
Patrick Wojcik.
Team 2: El Cheapo
Sandra Martinez -
Alex Mora -
Shusheng Ye.
Team 3: Finding Nemo
Ricardo Garcia -
Chandu Puligari -
Laszlo Szuri.
Team 4: Pooper Scooper
Can Dede -
Hector Marini -
Andre Senior.
Team Frankestein: Michael Farvet, Rosalee Martinez, and Christian Melo.
Rosalee Martinez, Michael Farvet (l to r), and Christian Melo (r).
Rosey sets up Frankestein, the Robot.
Frankestein fits in the minimum allowed box.
Now it is let loose.
Team Kangaroo: Juan Vesga, Mauricio Vargas, Parikshat Sirpal (l to r), and Kirk Harvey.
Juan explains his contributions.
Mauricio shows his work and how the robot works.
Parikshat gets some help from his team mates to present his part of the design work.
Team Double Jeopardy: Brandon Potens, and Patrick Wojcik.
Patrick Wojcik demonstrates his robot.
The base carries the small robot over the barrier.
Small robot is being released over the first barrier.
The robot captures a mine and retrieves to the base robot.
Salim Nasser, Sandra Martinez, and Shusheng Ye.
Rosey Martinez and Mom.
Mauricio Vargas and Kirk Harvey (l to r).
Michael Farvet, Neida Valdez, Mauricio Vargas, Kirk Harvey, and Parikshat Sirpal (l to r).
Experienced ASME competitors Sandra Martinez and Alex Mora wait for their turn.
Team Hole in the Pocket: Fernando Infante, Neida Valdez, and Fernando Jaramillo.
Hole in the Pocket up close.
Fernando Jaramillo and Neida Valdez.
Hector Marini, Andre Senior, Can Dede, Chandrasekar Puligari, Fernando Jaramillo,
Neida Valdez, and Christian Melo (l to r).
Robot competition peaks Dr. Levy's interest.
Neida inspects the robot.
Neida Valdez, Chris Melo, Marisa Henry (ASME Rep), and Fernando Infante (cw).
Patrick Wojcik, Laszlo Szuri, Brandon Potens, and Chandrasekar Puligari (l to r).
Rosey explains.
A creative design by Shusheng Ye, Sandra Martinez (51%) and Alex Mora as Rosey Martinez and Marisa Henry of ASME watch.
Enthusiastic and skillful driver Sandra. Alex later showed he is just as good.
It's Patrick Wojcik and Brandon Poten's turn -- after Patrick demonstrated their
robot for two days.
Hector Marini, Andre Senior and Can Dede put final touches. This is Team Pooper Scooper.
Finding Nemo: Generation II by Ricardo Garcia (the creator of semi-finished version I),
and Chandrasekar Puligari and Laszlo Szuri.
Team Finding Nemo: Chandrasekar Puligari, Ricardo Garcia, and Laszlo Szuri.
Team Pooper Scooper: Andre Senior, Hector Marini, and Can Dede.
The Pooper Scooper.
Hector is in control now.
Edward Natsui, Dennisha Reid, Andre Senior, Andy Beregszaszi, Neida Valdez,
and Fernando Jaramillo (l to r).
Team Hole in the Pocket relaxes: Feranando Jaramillo, Fernando Infante, and Neida Valdez.
Team El Cheapo gives a demo after the competition: Alex Mora, Sandra Martinez and Shusheng Ye.
Team Big Wheel: Andy Beregszaszi, Dennisha Reid, Edward Natsui (l to r), and Nigel Salick.
Marisa Henry, our ASME Representative, inspects all participants to recommend
next year's ASME RSC competitors from FIU.
Team Finding Nemo: The First Generation Robot by Ricardo Garcia.
Ricardo explains his robot design.
It's been a long day...
Dr. Sabri Tosunoglu - Department of Mechanical Engineering - FIU Miami
