ECE Participates in IEEE SoutheastCon 2024 Robotics Competition
April 15, 2024
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering was well represented at the recent IEEE SoutheastCon 2024 in the robotics competition with a group of fifteen student competitors from the university.
ECE Assistant Professor Ryan Green serves as the faculty advisor with assistance from ECE Associate Professor Bryan Jones. The team includes students from Mississippi State University’s Bagley College of Engineering, many of whom are students in ECE.
The team traveled to SoutheastCon, which is the annual IEEE Region Three Technical, Professional, and Student Conference, in Atlanta, Georgia. The region hosts a conference every year in the March-April time frame, and this year’s robotics competition was a space station theme. The Hardware Competition is a 2-3-day event where students bring robots designed over the previous year to earn points for their schools. In the first two days, students are encouraged to network with students from competing schools and refine their designs on conference-provided game boards. The last day is comprised of the competition rounds, including qualifying, semi-final and final rounds. At the final round, two to three student teams compete at a conference-wide banquet.
Undergraduate student competitors included the following:
• Kameron Case
• Logan Dubuisson
• Howard Edington
• Randy Flatness
• Leonel Giacobbe
• Alexander Jones
• Jacob McKelvey
• Emily Miller
• Alaa Mohammad• Sam Parker
• Austin Polk
• Anna Robinson
• Thomas Ryals
• Aden Sannutti
• Joseph Watkins
Graduate student advisors included Robert Calabrese, Kyler Farrar and Benjamin Wilkinson.
In 2025, the team will compete in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a space mining theme. More information about the conference and the competition may be found on the website for recent IEEE SoutheastCon 2024.
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University consists of 27 faculty members (including seven endowed professors), seven professional staff, and over 700 undergraduate and graduate students, with approximately 100 being at the Ph.D. level. With a research expenditure of over $14.24 million, the department houses the largest High Voltage Laboratory among North American universities.