MATE's 2002 & 2003 ROV Summer Institute Participant Curriculum Products

David Low

Perkins Course Sequence– Marine Engineering/Underwater Technology

This two-year progression of courses develops students’ skills in a number of related areas, which are brought together during the process of creating student projects using those skills. The junior sequence, titled “Marine Engineering/Physics”, is a twenty-week curriculum which contains units in drafting, CAD, analog electronics, soldering, pneumatics, remote control, physics and a Remotely Operated (underwater) Vehicle (ROV) project at the end of the half-year, double period (1 full Carnegie credit) course.

ROV Design Specifications
ROV Design Team Evaluation
ROV Design Team Evaluation Rubric
Rubric- Reflection
Buoyancy Worksheets
BUILD A HYDROMETER (Courtesy of Kevin Hardy at UC San Diego)
Displacement Worksheets

The senior, full-year, double period course (2 full Carnegie units), titled Marine Engineering/Underwater Technology, explores in greater depth those topics first encountered in the junior curriculum, moving into advanced solid modeling in CAD, BASIC stamp control, fundamental logic, hydraulic systems, robotics, data logging, programming, project planning/team management, guidance systems/GPS and sub-sea physics. Long-term student projects include construction of: a Conductivity/Temperature/Depth sensor, a fresh-water Remotely-Operated Vehicle (ROV), and an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. The culmination of the year’s work is a student-built ROV for entry in the National ROV Competition. Students are expected to submit a design layout, budget/cost analysis, electrical schematic diagram, and written summary of their methodology for completing the given tasks. In addition, all participants maintain a project journal and expense spreadsheet, and make a presentation complete with poster display and project report to the panel of judges at the national competition. Emphasis is placed on the design, engineering and project management processes, including testing, evaluation and re-design of numerous systems on the way toward completing a final project.

Unit Plans for both courses

Photos from the semester-ending competition of the
junior Marine Engineering class
        
 Five bots battling      Four bots battling      Obstacle Course       Students piloting 
 

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