Student Programs

SDR University Challenge

The SDR Challenge, created by the Air Force Research Laboratory in partnership with the Wright Brothers Institute, seeks to create opportunities for student engineering teams to create extraordinary solutions to land, air, and sea communications challenges. They do so by identifying specific challenges and using software-defined radios (SDRs) to build real-world, over-the-air solutions for them. This competition fosters student learning in the areas of RF design, signal processing and communications, embedded software, and even AI.

The competition website is AFRL SDR Challenge | Sep 23 (zohobackstage.com).

Complimentary Software

MathWorks provides complimentary software for this competition. If your team is participating in this competition and needs software, fill out the software request form.

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Student Tutorials and Videos

Learn how to use MATLAB and Simulink to design algorithms, create simulations, deploy code, and speed up software development for your projects.

Video Tutorials for Your Team

Interactive Online Tutorials

Learn by doing! Our two-hour online courses provide a hands-on learning environment where you will interact with a web-based version of MATLAB and receive instant and contextual feedback.

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Simscape Essentials for Automotive Student Teams

Get started with the fundamentals of vehicle development for student competitions, such as Formula Student, using Simscape.

Making Vehicles and Robots See

Get started with practical approaches to design perception algorithms using these free training materials.

Mobile Robotics Training Videos

Learn to design and test autonomous robot algorithms using MATLAB and Simulink with these free training materials.