Design of an Autonomous Pace Car for Athletic Training: a Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Experience.

The article presents an example of mechatronics applied to athletic training and shares a unique undergraduate multidisciplinary engineering research experience in a small liberal arts college setting. It discusses the project set-up, educational goals, challenges and opportunities and provides a closer look at the technical design of the project. IT also discusses educational goals to propose insights and recommendations for instructors working with similar experiences or sets of challenges.