{"id":34415,"date":"2024-04-08T15:48:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T19:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/newengineer\/?p=34415"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:27:35","slug":"engineering-students-solve-soldiers-problem-at-lightning-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/mae\/engineering-students-solve-soldiers-problem-at-lightning-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering students solve soldiers\u2019 problem at lightning speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"uf18-body-copy\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UF students design device to camouflage Army vehicles\" width=\"1640\" height=\"923\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iAa5XP6lJeQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It started as a class project for University of Florida senior engineering students, and it became a viable solution for soldiers who needed an easier, faster, and safer way to camouflage their vehicles on the battlefield.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Students from Matthew J. Traum\u2019s mechanical engineering capstone course received real-world training last year when they partnered with peers at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Civil-Military Innovation Institute, or CMI2, to design and produce a vehicle camouflage deployer for the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a successful collaboration that tackled a problem faced by soldiers in the field \u2014 and much more rapidly than the Army\u2019s conventional process,\u201d said Traum, Ph.D., an instructional associate professor in the UF Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"uf18-body-copy\">\n<p>Traum said a prototype of the UF-designed vehicle camouflage deployment device was delivered to Fort Stewart at the end of the fall 2023 semester and replicated in-house by the Army. The device is currently being field tested.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ufl.edu\/2024\/04\/vehicle-camouflage-device\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full story on news.ufl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Florida mechanical engineering students received real-world training last year when they partnered with peers at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Civil-Military Innovation Institute, or CMI2, to design and produce an easier, faster, and safer way for soldiers to camouflage their vehicles on the battlefield. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":34421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,25,45,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mae","category-engineering-education","category-icymi","category-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37491,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34415\/revisions\/37491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}