Hurd Wins First Place at 2015 ASME Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition
Carter Hurd, undergraduate research assistant in The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at The Ohio State University won first place in the Undergraduate Division of the 2015 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition, part of ASME’s annual International Design Engineering Technical Conference.
Hurd won a $300 cash prize and travel reimbursement for his entry, “Design of a Transformable Wheel Robot with Passive Legs,” after participating in a qualifying round. Participants were encouraged to bring prototypes of their entries to accompany their poster presentation in the final round. Supported by ASME, the National Science Foundation, and Misumi; and held at the conference in Boston, Massachusetts from August 2-5, the competition showcases students’ abilities in designing mechanisms and robots.
Hurd’s research group is part of the Design, Simulation and Innovation Laboratory (DISL) in MAE. “Carter designed a two-wheeled mobile robot that can transform from a circular shape for indoor locomotion to a legged shape for outdoor rough terrain,” said Associate Professor Haijun Su, Hurd’s advisor. “His prototype demo impressed the judges as well as the audience in this competition. We are very proud of Carter’s achievement.”
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ASME is a not-for-profit membership organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, career enrichment, and skills development across all engineering disciplines, toward a goal of helping the global engineering community develop solutions to benefit lives and livelihoods. Founded in 1880 by a small group of leading industrialists, ASME has grown through the decades to include more than 140,000 members in 151 countries.
