Courses: Drillbotics Club
College: Enginnering & Technology
Faculty: Abdennour Seibi and Others
Utah Valley University has recently launched a new engineering department to serve the community needs and satisfy the increasing demand for engineers in Utah and nationwide in the years to come. The challenge that might be faced by these newly established programs is having the means and tools of attracting quality students, providing them with a rich learning environment, and engaging them in various academic activities to promote student retention. To achieve these objectives, the new engineering programs must develop extra-curricular activities that can be integrated in various engineering courses. As a result, students will be involved in multidisciplinary projects as early as their first semester. The goal of this project is to build bridges between the various departments in the College of Engineering & Technology by establishing a Drillbotics Club to involve students from different programs (Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Architecture) in a multidisciplinary project related to the design, construction, and commissioning of an automated drilling rig “Drillbotics”. Students from various backgrounds and academic standing can participate on this project on a voluntary basis with the aim of identifying qualified and active students to form a team that will participate in an international competition.