Rich Mattes

Last updated July 15th, 2008

Rich is currently a Senior at Penn State University, working towards a B.S. in Engineering Science. He first became involved in robotics while attending Penn State Abington his freshman and sophomore years of college. There, he began working with table-top robots, and competed in the Firefighting Robot Competition. He also participated in the Mini Grand Challenge in April of 2007. Working on his own, he finished first place by completing just over half of the course. He transferred to University Park in the fall of 2007. At that time, he joined the Penn State Robotics Club and began working with the Mini Grand Challenge team. When the club was approached in the Fall of 2007 to enter in the IGVC competition, Rich volunteered to spearhead the project and became the IGVC team leader. He was elected President of the club in Spring 2008, for the 2008-2009 school year, succeeding Matt McLure.

General Information

 * Major:
 * Engineering Science


 * Projects
 * Mini Grand Challenge
 * IGVC