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Newsletter from the MIT Course 13 Student Engineering Association Spring 2003 Volume 2, Issue 3 = MMaakkiinngg WWaavveess SNAME Student Paper Night • Next 13SEAs The New England Section of SNAME held Lunch on March their Annual Student Paper Night on 19th Thursday, 13 February 2003, at the MIT Faculty Club. Over 60 SNAME members were in attendance with large contingents • Congratulations of students from the U.S. Coast Guard New Doctoral Academy and MIT. The evening began Students! with a pleasant social hour and tasty meal that progressed to an intense and intellectually stimulating series of student papers. Nine MIT students and one • Welcome New Graduate Students: Coast Guard Cadet presented eight Students! "Kemonaut: An Odyssey Class AUV papers at the meeting. The papers were: Platform for the NEREUS Underwater Mass Spectrometer" Richard Camilli Undergraduate Students: "Hull Form Optimization for Monohull Ships" "Modularity: The Multi-Mission Ship That by Justin A. Harper Highlights: Isn't" by Cadet 1/C Eric Burley (USCGA) "Computation of Acoustic Scattering from "A Chemical Sensor to Aid in the Search Axi-Symmetric Shells" by Charles Low Student Spotlight- for Underwater Archaeological Sites" by "Forecasting System and Theater Level Sophomore Women Johanna L. Mathieu ‘04 2 Impacts of Technology Infusion on "Drag Reduction of an Elastic Fish Model" Conventional Submarine Design" by Kostas Recap of Recent MTS by Karl-Magnus W. McLetchie ‘02 Psallidas and John Hootman Meetings "A SWATH Model for the Charles River" 3 by Meg Hendry-Brogan, '03 and Sheila We look forward to sending many of the Saroglou, '03 presenters to the National Meeting! ROV Teams’ Update 3 MIT Students Tour the ship replica Fame Recent 13SEAs Lunch During IAP, Fame (in the cold!), and met the man of the Seminars five 13SEAs operation himself, Harold Burnham. Their 4 students introduction to the 31 year old boat-builder, joined lofting who was standing on the lofting floor in a IAP Adventures and and design torn sweater, filthy jeans, and shoes with Classes classes “ventilation” for his toes, was quintessential. 5 during a visit Mr. Burnham’s family has been building to the H. A. boats on the same plot of land for centuries. Alumni Spotlight- Roger Maloof And even with his seemingly infinite Burnham Shipyard, a historic shipyard in experience, and the sense that naval 6 Essex, MA. The shipyard is building a architectural intuition ran in his veins, he Faculty Spotlight- Nick replica of the 1812 Privateer, Fame. humored questions with replies like “I don’t Patrikalakis know, I just make it up as I go.” We should 7 The group first toured the Essex all be so lucky as to have the level of Shipbuilding Museum to gain an craftsmanship and vision that he seems to 13.018 Final Project: understanding of historical context. They possess. Overall, the visit was a wonderful SWATH were then introduced to the basic methods sort of ‘grass-roots’ experience for 7 and tools used for centuries to loft and engineers! It was like being transported construct wooden vessels. Finally, they all back in time to the genesis of our industry! stepped foot on the lofting floor, spoke Special thanks to Kurt Hasselbach of the face-to-face with the chapped-faced, MIT Museum for coordinating the event! calloused-handed men who were crafting Making Waves Page 2 of 8 in AUVs and ROVs, but I have no idea, really, where I'll end up a few years Student Spotlight: Meet the Sop homore Women from now. Plus, what better than to For this month’s student spotlight, we Addie: I cam e to MIT with a very good spend a summer working on a boat have chosen to interview the three start on a math major with a possible someplace warm? I grew up near the sophomore women majoring in double maj or in course 9. However, ocean and enjoy swimming and playing Ocean Engineering, Olivia those pla ns changed thanks to the on the shore. Leitermann, Maggie Loftus, and advice of my dad. We decided that Addie Yandell (photo on page 3). since I love swimming and other water Maggie: I want to design sailboats, sports Oc ean Engineering would be a cruising yachts, and racing yachts good depa rtment to investigate. Fortunately, Melissa Harness, invited Why did you choose Ocean and hope to be in me to he r 13.018 presentation my Engineering? on the construction freshman year. I really liked the fact Olivia: I chose OE because it is a side in addition to that the O cean Engineering curriculum small department and the professors the design side. I really care about the students and has a group design project that involves so many aspects of think it would be how they are doing. After my first fun to see my term, I had had about enough of engineering. I got to know some people in OE and decided that I really Maggie Loftus project go from giant lecture start to finish and liked the people and size of the classes. Also, department and got a great UROP! to know that I was important in making OE is a neat it happen. field where What extracurricular activities you have to are you involved in? Addie: AUVs definitely, but I haven’t consider entire figured out what about them is so Olivia: I play hockey when there is ice systems, and appealing. I think the cool toy aspect and rugby when there is not. You need to learn may have something to do with it. should all play rugby. And hockey too. about the I am also an EMT and I work with electronics, Do you have a UROP or a fluids, SEMS on campus. Occasionally I do structures, Olivia Leitermann theater things, mostly tech. current research project? Olivia: During the fall semester, I had a software, power systems, and Maggie: I am on the sailing team. And UROP with John Leonard. I took the everything else that goes into a I am in AXO, so I do a lot of stuff Edgerton Center machine shop class vehicle. Since I'm still not sure what planning events with them, but other and made a pressure housing for a I'd really like to be when I grow up, than that I'm not in any organized camera that may be installed on an learning some about a bunch of groups. I spend a lot of time on my ROV. different things is a huge advantage. UROP. The systems approach also goes a Maggie: I have a UROP in the Water long way towards helping students to Addie: I am in Sigma Kappa and am Tunnel helping Melissa Harness with consider everything that's going on, the PR Chair for 13SEAs. I am the her research. We are studying the and making better engineers of us by Vice-Chair of the Undergraduate forces generated by a foil flapping in not looking at any one aspect of a Association Judicial Review Board. I 3D. Right now we are trying to vehicle exclusively. am also a member of Campus Crusade determine how efficient the propulsion for Christ here at MIT and am one of a is so we can determine if the foil can Maggie: I chose OE because I really team of directors for Park Street be used on vehicles. There is actually love the ocean and boats. The Church. Finally, during the last an AUV in construction right now that is curriculum includes most of the semester and IAP I was involved with going to use foils like ours. different kinds of engineering, and I Leadershape as the Logistics and On- like the idea of integrating all of those Site Coordinator. I also absolutely love Addie: I used to work with Victor aspects into one project instead of swimming and spend every spare Polidoro and Stephen Licht on their just focusing on the electronics or the moment in the pool. You could say Flapping Foil AUV, however this mechanics or something. I like the that I’m double majoring in semester I have switched over to the challenge associated with extracurricular activities. MATE ROV design competition. My waterproofing all of our components, team is designing a ROV that will go and the projects that we do interest What are your research down into a mock Titanic and pick up me more than a lot of the other interests? PVC sea probes. It has been fun so majors. far and has given me a chance to Olivia: Personally, I'm most interested couple my interest in cool toys with my interest in leadership. Page 3 of 8 Making Waves 13SEAs Members Attend MTS New England Meetings During IAP, a group of 13SEAs members drove down to towsled. In attend the Janua ry meeting of the MTS New England particular, he section at SAIC in Newport, RI. This meeting featured a discussed the talk about th e current and future developments of UUVs strengths of the given by Mike Keegan of the UUV division of the Naval different kinds of Undersea Weapons Center (NUWC). This talk highlighted underwater the present and future of AUVs and discussed a few vehicles, and the potential paths to create the AUVs of the future. In design particular, Mike spoke about on of the current AUVs used improvements by NUWC, the Manta (MTV). He discussed proposed fleet made over the offensive and defensive activities that we will strive to first Jason ROV. develop in the future. There was also discussion of the The tour important role that UUVs will play in the future of Naval Addie, Katie, Meg, & Justin in Newport.