Collaboration plan

My name is Gilberto Gonzalez. I am a Mechanical Engineering major with a focus on Robotics. Robotics and AI is rapidly growing not only in industrial settings, but for many other applications such as consumer and military. Eventually, all applications of human life will have some sort of robotic/AI system to make lives easier. My passion for this topic has led to this project. Especially revolving around the growing issue of un-detected landmines creating dangerous environments for our world. After our project, I hope to have enhanced current and built new technical skills that can be translated throughout my career as a robotics engineer, as well as built my leadership skills and learn how to effectively lead a team to a common goal.

Hello! My name is Karla Jimenez, and I am a senior at FIU pursuing a double major in Environmental Engineering and Interdisciplinary Engineering with a focus on IoT/Big Data/AI.  From a young age I have had a wide range of interests which led to my choice of adding on a second major in Interdisciplinary engineering. This project will allow me an opportunity to work on a discipline I have had little exposure to, such as robotics, and develop skills that pertain to it. In addition, I believe that a task as endangering as locating un-detected landmines could be greatly assisted by autonomous vehicles. Through this project, I hope to expand my technical skills and leadership skills by working with a range of disciplined engineers towards a common goal.

As a little boy I was fascinated by robots and the mechanics of things, I've always been curious about how thing works and questioning how. What seem like pure magic just drove my curiosity to which, I would come to learn and pursue this love for anything mechatronics and robot related. Learning the physics, math, motors and sensors that goes into a masterpiece of machinery is my pride and joy. It's been a pleasure working among amazing engineering for this project. Working with my peers have allowed me to grow by communications and project management skills. It has allowed to better my technical skill of coding, designing and additive manufacturing skills.

I am pursuing a major in Interdisciplinary Engineering with a secondary field in Industrial and Systems Engineering, and at the same time, I’m pursuing a master’s degree in Engineering Management. When I was a girl, I didn't know clearly what I wanted to study, but I was always good at math. For that reason, it seemed interesting to me to look for something related to that discipline, and I said to myself "why not engineering?" At the beginning of studying the career, I was impressed to see the enormous relationship that existed between the numbers and everything that surrounds us. I understood that numbers are a language, a way of explaining the composition of the things that are within our reach. One of the big reasons I decided to study industrial engineering was because of the great curiosity I have about how things work. When I understood the great importance and the enormous responsibility that industrial engineers have, I realized that I wanted to be part of that group.

Since I was a kid, I grew up around engineers. This allowed me to see motors, wires, electrical units and small robotic projects all around my house. This created in me a curiosity of how everything worked and why. To get to the point when I would ask "Why?" to everything. When I was a teenager, I discovered I wanted to be a mechanical engineer. While taking classes since the moment I started using CAD I realized that I loved working with CAD and applying knowledge from different areas as heat transfer, Mechanical design, dynamics and others to create simulations. For this project my goal is to apply the knowledge I have in CAD and learn more to create our final design and to create accurate simulations, as well as work on the robotics and manufacturing part to have a working prototype at the end.