ASRA :: Engineering Design - Underwater ROV

Explore how Engineers design and build our magical modern world. We will learn about the process of Engineering Design with a hands-on, project-based approach . . . first in a series of small, fun engineering challenges, and then by employing what we've learned to design and build actual remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROV's). An underwater Quidditch match will test just how well the ROV's perform. If time and weather permit, we will mount underwater video camera's to the ROV's and go out to explore a nearby lake bottom. You will learn and do all sorts of practical things from basic electronics, to the physics of buoyancy, to mechanical design. You will also find out how to focus your creativity, knowledge, and reason into decisions that matter. But what's more, you will start using lots of things you already know, to do things you never thought you could.

About the Instructors

Ed Moriarty is an instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Edgerton Center. He helps to support over 20 MIT student clubs and teams the are actively engaged in engineering activities ranging from building and racing Formula SAE cars, to Solar Electric Vehicles that compete in the World Solar Challenge in Australia; from a multimillion dollar biosatellite to study the effects of Martian gravity on mammals to Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. He mentors a FIRST Robotics team (#97) and is involved with numerous Boston area high schools to bring hands-on, project-based learning into the mainstream of public education. He has taught a Saturday engineering outreach program for over 15 years where students work on technologies ranging from Lego Robotics, to Underwater ROV's, to interactive art. He is coming to ASRA along with his son Tom.

Vincent is a member of the UAF MAST team that went to Norway in 2007 for an international competitition in underwater ROV.

• Ed Moriarty
• Vincent Weibel