FIRST Robotics Day at the VCU College of Engineering champions STEM education
The VCU College of Engineering celebrated FIRST Robotics Day on March 31, 2026, highlighting a 26-year commitment to STEM education through hands-on learning, industry partnerships, and new academic initiatives like the robotics minor.
VCU Engineering Hosts Celebration for Inaugural Virginia FIRST Robotics Day
The celebration brought together nearly 150 attendees, including representatives from Richmond’s regional robotics teams, members of FIRST's board of directors and various corporate and academic partners.
VCU Engineering students attend ASME EFx events, placing in multiple competitions throughout the event weekend
The VCU College of Engineering’s student section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) recently competed in the annual ASME EFx competitions, hosted by Virginia Tech and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Beating the heat with Engineering students’ robotic gripper
The team’s invention was one of the finalists in the 2022 Collegiate Inventors Competition, which notes the gripper is designed to lower production time while reducing the cost of the part- making process.
Her combined passion for people and robots leads to a graduate research fellowship
She believed the combination of both her passions - robotics and biomedical engineering - could lead to solutions that supplement thinly stretched health care workers while also reducing medical errors.
A cane that steers? A glove that finds unseen objects?
Cang Ye, Ph.D., professor in VCU’s Department of Computer Science, is an internationally recognized inventor of assistive robotics for people with visual impairments, but that wasn’t his original plan.
