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Sleepless Summer Nights - Certificate Design Challenge

Another System Design and Management certificate program started this summer. The event ended with a robot design challenge which I managed along with Hamid and Kandarp. With just three organizers there was lots of work but it was a rewarding experience.

This is a part of an article that appeared in the SDM alumni newsletter:

“Certificate students spent the last two days of the workshop completing the Design Challenge (DC) Competition. SDM Fellows - Kandarp Bhatt, Avi Latner, and Hamid Salim - designed this challenge using the latest LEGO Mindstorm NXT kit with several stages of events having increasing difficulty. A primary premise of this particular exercise was that the events stressed different (sometimes conflicting) performance requirements, forcing teams to perform critical design tradeoffs. This year's teams exhibited outstanding inter-team collaboration during the long hours of the DC process.

First place Design Challenge winners were: Nick Biersdorf, Brad Hitchler, David Kapparos, Lisa Steinhoff, and Steven Stone.

As has been the case with other DC exercises, these weary but happy participants found it the highlight of their week.”

Source: http://sdm.mit.edu/alumni_newsletter/#summer

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