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.
Visit the competition website AFRL SDR Challenge.
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Complimentary Software
MathWorks is pleased to sponsor the 2025 SDR University Challenge competition. MathWorks will provide software, training, and access to MathWorks engineering mentors and technical support to teams who have completed the Student Competition Software Request Form.
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