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NSWC Crane Challenges Students with First-Ever Undergraduate Design Contest

Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne students Michael Kretschmer (left), Thomas Butts (center) and David McVay (right) attach their solution to the weapon system.

Crane, Ind. (PRWEB) May 05, 2011

College students from across the Midwest ventured to Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) April 19 to compete in the first-annual NSWC Crane Undergraduate Design Contest.

Four teams totaling more than 20 students, represented the University of Louisville (UofL), Indiana University—Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW), University of Southern Indiana (USI), Butler University and Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in the contest. Butler and IUPUI formed one team because of the schools’ Engineering Dual Degree Program. All universities hold an Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA) with NSWC Crane, which allows for increased collaboration and a mutually beneficial relationship between the university and NSWC Crane.

Developed to provide students the opportunity to tackle a real-world engineering problem, the contest serves as an important learning experience for the students involved. USI students even used it as their senior capstone project. Contest sponsors American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) and Access Technology Across Indiana (ATAIN) awarded cash prizes of $ 1,000, $ 500 and $ 250 to first, second and third place teams.

“This contest perfectly mimics real-life engineering situations that our engineers experience every day at Crane,” said NSWC Crane Commanding Officer, Capt. Charles LaSota. “This is an exciting opportunity for students to take modeling and simulation to the next level while discovering the future possibilities that exist for them at Crane.”

In early January, students were presented with the problem: the camera mounted to a widely-used Naval weapon system blanks-out during firing. Students were tasked to engineer a solution that isolates the camera and minimizes vibrations, while allowing it to be continuously monitored during firing.

Students either collected or were provided data to analyze for the project. They reviewed engineering drawings of the weapon and camera mounts and witnessed first-hand the effects of the weapon’s influence on the weapon system during live fire. Teams communicated with NSWC Crane Weapon System Lead Engineer Jim Ernest throughout the months leading up to the competition and also had the opportunity to travel to NSWC Crane for one day to take their own measurements. Additionally, NSWC Crane loaned the camera to each team for one week for in-depth analysis.

Each team presented its unique solution to the judges, which was followed by a live-fire demonstration and testing of solutions. Judges included Ernest and Raymon Smith, ASNE treasurer and NSWC Crane engineer.

Ultimately, IPFW claimed victory and the $ 1,000 prize. UofL followed in second place, USI placed third and the Butler/IUPUI team rounded out the competition in fourth.

“We were presented with a problem that was very different than anything we have done in school,” said Michael Kretschmer, IPFW team captain. “This contest was not only a challenging learning experience but also a great opportunity to do work that will make a difference.”

Because all teams’ solutions proved successful, judges relied heavily on the engineering analysis performed by each team as well as the solutions’ viability and performance during live-fire to help determine the winner.

“I am very intrigued by all the solutions presented today and pleased with the overall results. Overall, IPFW presented the best in each category,” said Ernest. “They did a very thorough engineering analysis, dampened the key vibration issues in the camera and performed well during the live-fire testing.”

Slated to be an annual event, NSWC Crane hopes the competition next year brings the same amount of innovation and dedication from students.

Serving as a leader in technology-driven innovation and championing collaborative opportunities through university and school partnerships, NSWC Crane offers academia a critical mass of technical resources for educating our next generation workforce.

For more information regarding the Undergraduate Design Contest, contact Brian Thomas at brian.m.thomas1.ctr(at)navy(dot)mil or 812-854-8530.

As a Naval Sea Systems Command activity, NSWC Crane provides total lifecycle leadership in Special Missions, Strategic Missions and Electronic Warfare/Information Operations.

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‘Gator’ on the Loose: Olin College and Draper Laboratory Collaborate to Create Self-Driving John Deere XUV

The Draper SCOPE team with their John Deere ‘Gator’

Needham, MA (PRWEB) May 05, 2011

Over the past nine months, through Olin’s Senior Capstone Program for Engineering (SCOPE) program Draper Laboratory and Olin College have successfully continued their collaboration to build a capable, autonomous off-road vehicle. This partnership began last year when Draper Laboratory sponsored its first SCOPE project and charged Olin students with converting a standard John Deere Gator XUV into a robot capable of being controlled by a computer. This year, Draper’s second SCOPE sponsorship got them a new team of five Olin seniors (Nicholas Hobbs, Jacob Izraelevitz, Daniel Grieneisen, Ann Wu and Arash Ushani), who have enhanced this capable platform to command the Gator to drive itself through complex environments that require the vehicle to detect paths, and identify and avoid obstacles.

The vehicle first tackled navigation of parking lots and roads on the Olin College campus. Developing this capability required the creation of software that could enable the vehicle to navigate towards GPS waypoints while detecting and avoiding static and dynamic obstacles. Next, the Olin team took the vehicle to the forest where further development added the ability to recognize organic objects as obstacles and navigate through partially GPS-denied environments. During field testing, the vehicle has autonomously transported supplies through more than a quarter mile of densely vegetated dirt paths. Additionally, the vehicle has autonomously patrolled open field environments for extended durations.

To achieve these objectives, the Olin team has overcome challenging technical problems spanning many engineering domains, from artificial intelligence to advanced sensors and high speed computation. However, the students have not attacked these problems alone. Between their capable project partner Draper Laboratory and vehicle sponsor National Instruments, the team has had access to the tools they needed to accomplish this complicated task.

“Being a SCOPE sponsor is rewarding personally and professionally,” said Troy B. Jones, autonomous systems capability leader at Draper. “I get to work with excellent students and they provide me innovative ideas and demonstrations that our company would otherwise not have the bandwidth to pursue. Besides all that – it’s fun!”

About SCOPE

The Senior Capstone Program in Engineering (SCOPE) is the culminating experience of each Olin student’s education. In this year-long course, senior students work in multi-disciplinary teams, engaging in significant real-world engineering projects for partnering corporate clients. Each team of 5-7 students, along with a faculty advisor, dedicated project space and an Olin technical expert group, works on a project of value to the sponsoring company.

Sponsor companies are industry leaders, joining Olin College as catalysts for change in engineering education. These corporate partnerships drive industry awareness that engineers of the future will be trained differently – and that Olin College of Engineering is leading the way toward this goal.

Olin students have strong hands-on design skills, including rapid-prototyping and user-oriented design, training in entrepreneurship, as well as teamwork and project management skills resulting from cross-disciplinary group projects which they start the day they arrive at Olin College. In the SCOPE program, seniors are grouped together in appropriate labor workforce teams to match the needs of each sponsor company’s project. Sponsor companies find that these exceptionally bright engineering students look at problems in new ways and find unexpected solutions.

About Draper Laboratory

Draper Laboratory is a not-for-profit, engineering research and development organization dedicated to solving critical national problems in security, space systems, biomedical systems and energy. Core capabilities include guidance, navigation and control; miniature low power systems; highly reliable complex systems; information and decision systems; autonomous systems; biomedical and chemical systems; and secure networks and communications.

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