Harvard College Engineering Society

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The Harvard College Engineering Society is a student-run organization at Harvard College aimed at promoting engineering and cross disciplinary collaboration on campus through participating in competitions and working on various engineering projects.

Upcoming Events

  • The Harvard College Engineering Society and the Harvard-MIT Robot Soccer Team (RFC Cambridge) will be hosting the US Open Robocup competition for the small-size robot soccer league this year. Students from the CS199r class and RFC Cambridge will be participating in this competition and have an opportunity to show the progress made over the year against former World Champions Carnegie Mellon, and a new team, Georgia Tech. The main event is on May 9th and open to Harvard affiliated spectators.

    May 9th (Saturday)
    1pm - Event Opens to Harvard Folks and Friends
    1:15- Game 1: Carnegie Mellon Vs. Georgia Tech
    2pm - Game 2: Carnegie Mellon Vs. RFC Cambridge
    3pm - Game 3: RFC Cambridge Vs. Georgia Tech
    4pm - Technical Challenge 1: Shooting and Passing
    5pm - Technical Challenge 2: Navigation

    May 10th
    1pm - Finals
    2pm - Awards Ceremony

    Location: Hilles Library Penthouse in the Radcliffe Quad
    URL: RFC Cambridge Homepage

Other Announcements

  • RFC Cambridge, our autonomous robotic soccer team, is back from competing in the RoboCup US Open in Pittsburg, PA in May. Our mechanical systems proved robust and all robots survived intact and ready to development this coming year.
  • We updated our goals for the upcoming year.
  • Among other things, we are reviving Women in Computer Science dinners.
  • Talk to Geneva Trotter (gtrotter [at] fas) or Kyle Lawton (klawton [at] fas) if you are interested in non-RoboCup side projects. We are submitting budget proposals for the 2008-2009 academic year.

HCES Activities

RFC Cambridge

If building soccer-playing robots is your thing, then we have the club for you. Questions? E-mail Geneva Trotter (gtrotter [at] fas) or Julie Henion (jhenion [at] mit [dot] edu).

Women in Computer Science

Even if you are not a woman and/or not in CS, you will be welcome to attend our fall events (to be announced).

Lunches with Professors

We are planning to continue these lunches during the '08-'09 year. Last year we had with Profs. Radhika Nagpal, Mike Smith, and more…

Student Projects

We are expanding to support non-RoboCup projects. More…