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Caption: Engineering Open House Guide - 2009
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22nd Annual AMD W.J. “Jerry” Sanders Creative Design Competition College students from around the world come to participate in the 22nd Annual AMD W.J. “Jerry” Sanders Creative Design Competition, a two-day contest of robotic design and engineering. This year, teams will need to move a weighted, air-filled balloon to play a large game of tic-tac-toe. Instead of Xs and Os, teams will play with colored balloons. Each team will be assigned a colored balloon to score with. To get their balloons, a team will first have to ‘unlock’ their balloons from a cage. Once released onto the field, teams can score by placing it into a box. Once scored in, the box will remain under the team’s control until another team takes control by scoring in that box. Unlocking Potential 5 Scoring: Points will be awarded for releasing balloons and scoring in a box. Additional points will be awarded if a team gains control over an entire ‘line’ in the tictac-toe grid. Points will be taken away for popping Schedule: the balloons. Competition will take place from 9 “Jerry” Sanders III graduated from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign in 1958 with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering. Since then, he’s gone on to start one of the most successful companies of our time. W.J. “Jerry” Sanders III co-founded Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in 1969. Under his leadership, AMD grew from being a “second-sourcer” of other companies’ products to its current position as the fourth largest semi-conductor manufacturer in the United States. Sanders also co-founded several prominent industry groups, including the Semiconductor Industry Association, the Santa Clara Manufacturing Group, the Semiconductor Research Corporation, and the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation. The Wall Street Transcript named Sanders the Best Chief Executive Officer in the semiconductor industry for the years 1983, 1984, and 1985, and runner-up in 1991. Mr. Sanders received the Robert N. Noyce Award from the Semi-conductor Industry Association (SIA) in 1998. In 2001, he received the Medal of Achievement for the AeA, the nation’s largest hightech industry association. Sanders’ continued support for the University of Illinois, and in particular this design contest, is a testament to his support for education and competition, both of which he thinks breeds success, creativity, and excellence. W.J. Sanders III Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Location and Time: March 13 and 14, 2009 Kenney Gym Annex University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign am to 4 pm on both days with final rounds starting around 1 pm on Saturday, March 14th. There will be rounds running at all times with bonus rounds and even crowd participation events spaced throughout the day. Towards the end of the competition on Saturday there will also be a demolition round where teams fight to have the last functional robot standing! W.J. “Jerry” Sanders Creative Design Competition Committee Director: Chris Reeg Rules Chair: Jim Lange Field Chair: Jon Hansen Publicity Chair: Dan McKenna Faculty Advisor: Dan Mast Treasurer: Renee Massey Teams Coordinator: Jack Pritz Programmer: Nishit Sharma
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