Offering:
ENGR498-F2024-S2025
Award sponsor:
BAE Systems
Award amount:
$2500
Award description:
Software has become an integral part of the operation, management and control of complex systems comprising mechanical, electrical, and optical elements. This award recognizes the best use of software in a system design to enable task automation, object recognition, system robustness, data collection, or other impressive features that would be difficult to achieve without software. Teams will be judged on the reliability, robustness, maintainability, reusability, originality and testability of software embedded in their designs.
Award self-nomination requirements:
Teams that wish to be considered for this award must provide their Software Design Document (SDD) and a one page write up summarizing the excellence of their software design prior to Design Day. The write up should give specifics on how software best practices were followed during the development process, discuss how they verified the proper functionality of their software, and how their software is critical to the success of their project.