Mechanical Engineering student Alain Achkar was invited to participate
in the International ASME Conference and Competition in Florida, USA.
As winner of the Lebanon ASME competition, Alain will be competing with
students from 17 universities worldwide in the Robot Design Competition,
Mars Rocks, to take place November 12-19, 2009. The competition’s aim is to
design a robot that can collect rocks from the surface of planet Mars during the
next NASA mission.