{"28001":{"#nid":"28001","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Robotics Team Receives National Accolades","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA robotics team from Georgia Tech-Savannah received a design award during the recent Marine Advanced Technology Education Center\u0027s (MATE) 2009 International Student Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Competition. The Georgia Tech team was among more than 20 collegiate finalists competing in the challenge to design and build ROVs that function as submarine rescue systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe MATE competition, a first for Georgia Tech-Savannah, was held at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. The Savannah team received the \u0022design elegance\u0022 award and was commended for their ROV\u0027s design aesthetics, simplicity and functionality.\n\n\u0022The success of this team exemplifies Georgia Tech-Savannah\u0027s close community of undergraduates and graduate engineering students,\u0022 said David Frost, director of Georgia Tech-Savannah.  \u0022Their inspired creativity and work ethic is typical of our hands-on approach to education.\u0022\n\nFaculty sponsor Fumin Zhang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, provided limited direct guidance. \u0022Virtually all the labor, ideas, programming and fabrication came from the students,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We started with a core group of four Georgia Tech-Savannah students six months ago,\u0022 explained team captain Justin Shapiro, an interdisciplinary robotics Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Tech who came from Rutgers University. \u0022We realized that this project would allow us to apply what we learned in class, and then push beyond what we learned.\u0022\n\nAlong with Shapiro from Cranbury, N.J., the Georgia Tech-Savannah team included the following members: Angel Berrocal, Silver Spring, Md.; Chasen Born, Tarrytown, Ga.; Steven Bradshaw, Cleveland, Ohio; Spencer Burch, Brunswick, Ga.; Matt Carroll, Lavonia, Ga.; Brandon Groff, Lancaster, Pa.; Scott Hales, Frisco, Texas; Winton Key, Fort Knox, Ky.; Jasmine Magerkurth, Warner Robins, Ga.; Leslie Maldonado, Miami, Fla.; Sean Maxon, Richmond Hill, Ga.; and Richard Nguyen, Marietta, Ga.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Ga. Tech-Savannah Group Receives Design Award"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"A robotics team from Georgia Tech-Savannah received a design award during the recent Marine Advanced Technology Education Center\u0027s (MATE) 2009 International Student Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Competition.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ga. Tech-Savannah ROV team receives design award"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2009-07-23 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:29","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3415","name":"Ga"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"3417","name":"ROV"},{"id":"3416","name":"Tech-Savannah"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"Lisa Grovenstein\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-8835","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}