Stryker Engineering Challenge 2019
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| Posted on April 4, 2019
Michigan Colleges Alliance (MCA) team from various colleges including Andrews University won the 2019 Stryker Engineering Challenge on Friday March 22 against teams from University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Michigan Technological University, Western Michigan University, University of Notre Dame, and Purdue University.
March 21-22, 2019, the University Recruiting department at Stryker Medical in Kalamazoo held the 9th annual Stryker Engineering Challenge. Teams of four sophomore engineering students compete against each other for an opportunity to get a $1000 scholarship and an interview for a Stryker Internship position for summer 2020. MCA has been invited to send a team to the competition since 2015.
The challenge began around 7pm on Thursday and all work ended at 1:45pm on Friday. The competition part of the challenge began at 2:30pm. The teams had to leave the building from 2am to 6am on Friday, but Stryker had motel rooms reserved for all teams at a local Hampton Inn.
The main part of the challenge was to design a remotely controlled vehicle from a supplied build kit. This vehicle was used in a 30 minute pick-up Lego people competition where all teams work at the same time, and in an obstacle course race where two-three teams raced at a time to see who could complete the course with the fastest time. Each team has to use three different drivers during the race.
In addition to the competition, the teams could collect points on technical challenges before the competition and on homework that was collected around noon on Friday.
The MCA team was second overall after the homework and technical challenges, trailing Michigan State by 13 points. During the picking-up Lego people, MCA took the lead and was 24 points ahead of Michigan Tech before the race. Western won the race followed by Michigan Tech and MCA, resulting in MCA winning the challenge overall by a single point over Michigan Tech.
The MCA team worked really well together and maximized their performance by working well together and making good design decisions.
Sponsors: Andrews University Engineering Department
Related Website(s): https://www.andrews.edu/cas/engineering/index.html
Contact:
Simon Ok
beomjun@andrews.edu
269-932-2619
Related Website(s): https://www.andrews.edu/cas/engineering/index.html
Contact:
Simon Ok
beomjun@andrews.edu
269-932-2619
