Extension and Minority Engineering Program (MEP)
MEP MITE Summer Program
July 2024, MARS lab participated in the Multiethnic Introduction to Engineering (MITE) program and offered multiple lab tours for Minority Engineering Program (MEP) students. MITE is an outreach strategy aiming to attract underrepresented students, i.e., African American, Native American, Hispanic American, to pursue engineering at Purdue.
Mandela Washington Fellowship
June 2024, Dr. She presented about autonomy and robotics to young African leaders with the Mandela Washington Fellowship. This is the flagship program of the U.S. government’s Young African Leadership ( YALI), and has brought nearly 6500 young leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa to U.S. for academic and leadership training.
MEP PREFACE Summer Workshop
June 2024, MARS lab participated in the Pre-Freshman and Cooperative Education (PREFACE) residential summer workshop and offered multiple lab tours for Minority Engineering Program (MEP) students. PREFACE is an early outreach strategy aiming to attract underrepresented students, i.e., African American, Native American, Hispanic American, to Purdue.
Blue Sky Summer Scholars Program
May 2024, MARS lab collaborated with Blue Sky Summer Scholars program and offered a interactive lab demo session for Ivy Tech Community College students.
K-12 Education
Robotics Hands-on Practice
April 2024, Purdue MARS lab offered an interactive session for high school students from the Southport High School, 971 E Banta Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46227. Students enjoyed to play with the robotic teleoperation systems and high-resolution vision based tactile sensors.
Robotics Lab Tour
May 2023, Purdue MARS lab offered a lab tour for the high school students from the Dayton Regional STEM School, 1724 Woodman Dr, Kettering, OH 45420.
Robotics Summer Camp
June 2022, Dr. She participated a week-long Summer Camp and delivered a robotic introduction seminar for the Purdue Polytechnic High School Students.
Student Competition
ASME Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition (SMRDC 2022)
Part of Annual Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR) & ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC)
Images from SMRDC
August 2022, Dr. She co-organized the 2022 ASME Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition.
ASME Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition (SMRDC 2021)
Part of Annual Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR) & ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC)
Images from SMRDC
August 2021, Dr. She co-organized the 2021 ASME Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition.
ASME Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition (SMRDC 2020)
Part of Annual Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR) & ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC)
Images from SMRDC
August 2020, Dr. She co-organized the 2020 ASME Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition.
Robotic Expo
Robotics Panel
Images from RISE
March 2024, Dr. She gave a Spotlight Talk and participated in the Panel: Robotics Round Table for the second Autonomous Robotics Club (ARC) of Purdue Robotics and Intelligent Systems (RISE) Expo!
Robotics Expo
Images from RISE
April 2023, Autonomous Robotics Club (ARC) of Purdue, with Dr. She's supervision, organized the inaugural Institute for Control, Optimization and Networks (ICON) Robotics and Intelligent Systems (RISE) Expo!