UTPA students won 1st place at the 2008 IEEE Region 5 Robotics Competition held April 19 in Kansas City. UTPA's autonomous "Escorpion" robot competed with 30 other university teams from across the central United States, on a course including weight recognition, navigation, color recognition, and precision object placement. Congratulations to the members of the winning team: Marcelo Resendez, Viridiana Martinez, and Marcos Ochoa. UTPA's "Ironbot" robot, built by Paul Martinez, Jose Sanchez, and Alex Rodriguez also made it into the final round of competition. This is the second year in a row that UTPA has taken first place in Robotics.

In the Region 5 Student Paper competition, Jubail Caballero won third place for his paper "RFID Proximity Card System", which had already won awards at the local and area levels.

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This is the website for the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas - Pan American. Please explore the site to find out more about our

• ABET accredited Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering program
• Newly opened Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering program
• Rapidly developing Master of Science in Engineering program
• Modern, 120,000 sq ft building and well-equipped labs
• Alumni working in industry, education, and government throughout the US

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