UTSA Student Branch Projects Report Spring 2015 IEEE Central Texas Section January 24 th, 2014 San Marcos, Texas

Phase I Projects Short Name Amount $ BudgetedAmount $ ExpendedPercent $ Expended Percent Effort Complete Plan to Complete Promotion Membership Events Fundraising $ % Fall 2014 Student Interest Groups Robotics $ % Fall 2014 Professional Events Seminars/Meetings $ % Fall 2014

Phase II Projects Short Name Amount $ Budgeted Amount $ Expended Percent $ Expended Percent Effort Complete Plan to Complete Membership Events $200$15075%0% Early - Late Spring 2015 Professional/Technical Workshops and Events $ %0% Early – Late Spring 2015 Student Interest Groups Robotics $ % Mid-Spring 2015 Promotion $100$5050% Late-Spring 2015 S-PAC $300$400133%100% Fall 2014 Membership Incentives $ % Mid-Spring 2015

Robotics Team Approximately 18 active members Embedded Developer Kits: –The Robotics team has created 10 kits that contain:  Breadboard, Resistor/Capacitor kits, Servo motor, AVR Microcontroller, In Circuit Serial Programmer (ICSP), DMM, LEDs… –IEEE Members can check out kits for free in order to practice the basics of robotics and AVR Embedded Systems programming

Region V We plan to participate in the 2015 Region V Robotics Competition –5 Team members interested in attending the conference As well as participating in the Circuits Competition –2 Team members In doing so, we have created a section of students dedicated to teaching software programming for engineering. The main language for higher level software is Python, while embedded systems use C

Software Programming The following is a Python script that creates a maze, while another function maps the maze

Mechanical Design Mechanical Engineers design schematics on Solidworks which are then created in the machine shop This picture is a shoulder joint for a mechanical arm, which the mechanical engineers will learn how to program using embedded C for microcontrollers and Python for higher level controls such as joysticks

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