{"id":7105,"date":"2015-04-26T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T14:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=7105"},"modified":"2015-04-29T19:02:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T23:02:56","slug":"student-hexapod-design-wins-wpi-me-provost-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2015\/04\/student-hexapod-design-wins-wpi-me-provost-award.html","title":{"rendered":"Student Hexapod Design wins WPI ME Provost Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hexapod<\/a><\/p>\n

The \u201cDesign and Manufacture of a 3D Printed Wireless Hexapod\u201d won the 2015 WPI Mechanical Engineering Provost Award. \u00a0The multi-discipline engineering team of Tyler Collins<\/strong>, Cody Woodward-Wallace<\/strong>, Aras Nehir Keskin<\/strong>, Andrew Beaupre <\/strong>brought together mechanical design, engineering analysis, electrical design, computer engineering, software programming and control theory to take the top prize.<\/p>\n

\"SolidWorks<\/p>\n

\"SolidWorks<\/p>\n

The Master Qualifying Project, MQP, senior capstone, is an advanced, team based, 1 year project, that culminates what students have learned in 4 years of engineering study.<\/p>\n

\"Final<\/p>\n

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The Provost award recognizes the most outstanding student team MQP for design excellence in a chosen academic discipline.<\/p>\n

\"SolidWorks<\/p>\n

Competing against 57 teams, judges from industry and academia had a difficult decision.\u00a0 The Hexapod team stood out by designing and constructing a working prototype that was low cost, reliable, serviceable, \u00a0modular, and wireless control for research use.<\/p>\n

\"Robotic<\/p>\n

Students made difficult decisions on the design of components for their terrestrial Hexapod (six legged robot) and the use of additive and subtractive manufacturing techniques based on functionality, time and cost.\u00a0 For example,<\/p>\n