Berkeley, CA – VIMANA announced that company founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Will Sobel will be leading a webinar for the MTConnect Student Challenge.
The MTConnect Student Challenge is an innovation competition that seeks student created ideas and applications utilizing MTConnect. The MTConnect Student Challenge is an opportunity for all U.S.- based undergraduate and graduate students to build relationships with potential employers by demonstrating initiative to learn about their needs and propose solutions. Industry stands to benefit from the new and innovative ideas and applications generated during this Challenge.
The primary goal of the MTConnect Student Challenge Program is for students to develop innovative and deployable manufacturing intelligence utilizing data acquired via the MTConnect standard. This goal will be met through two concurrent, yet distinct, competitions – Idea Creation and Application Development. A total of $33,000 will be awarded – $10,500 for the Ideation Competition and $22,500 for the Application Development Competition.
William Sobel has over 20 years of industry experience in successful startups managing the development of innovative application infrastructure software products. In recent years, as the principal author and architect of the MTConnect Standard, Mr. Sobel has led the industry toward significant advances in collection and analysis of machine data.
