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OE Graduates!

• Welcome new Joint Program Students!

• Congratulations Award and Scholarship Winners!

Highlights: 13.017 Project 1 OE Grad’s Future Plans 2 iQuarium Project 3 Webb Students visit MIT 3 Awards Announced 4 Seminar Series Recap 4

ISODC Competition 5 DOE Announcement 5 Alumni Spotlight-

Dave Ricks 6 Rotorship Model 6

Student Spotlight- Claudio Cairoli 7

Newsletter from the MIT Course 13 Student Engineering Association

From Waves to Watts: A Sustainable Energy Device

Summer 2003 Volume 2, Issue 4

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The class, taught by Dr. Tom i and Dr. Franz Hover, was composed x OE juniors: Kate Baker, Jeremy bers, Matt Greytak, Johanna

ieu, Brian Mueller, and Katie erman. Together they managed to ssfully complete half of the stated nge—determining the amount of energy in the river and designing a e to turn this energy into electricity. fall in 13.018, Design of Ocean ms II they will attempt to complete the d half of the challenge.

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mine what sorts of wave energy rsion devices have already been oped, the advantages and vantages to these devices, and their ability for use in the Charles River. previous attempts at producing inable energy from waves were doned in the late 70s because of low ncy and lack of funding. However, , with new technologies, lower cost , and the ever-growing need for ative energy sources this field of rch is particularly important for us to back into.

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the First Lieutenant on the USS Preble, a Navy destroyer. After my 1 1/2 years or so on the ship, I hope to finish my Navy service in oceanography. LT Erik Oller I have been assigned to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire to take part in coordinating the overhaul and upkeep of submarines for the US Navy. Justin Harper I will be working at a private ship design firm in the Annapolis, MD area this summer, as well as traveling. I'm also pursuing a patent for a low-resistance hull form design that I developed, with the help of the MIT Technology Licensing Office. Bertrand Renard My short-term plans include another Masters or a PhD, either in Ocean Acoustics, Fluid Dynamics or Cryogenics. My long-term goals lie in applied research or research engineering, and possibly a shift to administrative work in France. Parker Larson I am moving to San Diego to work at the shipyard for General Dynamics-Nassco as a Production Associate. Also, I’m getting married in August. John Hootman I have accepted a position as a Naval Architect in a Navy civil service professional development program based out of NSWC Carderock Division. I will rotate through a number of Navy offices doing work ranging from research and development to shipyard supervision. My goal is to be involved in the design and management of future naval vessel concepts. In the meantime, I will be taking the summer off to take some vacation, buy a truck, and spend some time camping, and eventually to move myself to the DC area.

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for Commander, Submarine Forces Fleet. I will be the Type Desk Officer 4 (Submarine Maintenance) Office

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Propeller water tunnel testing at MIT, by members of the Webb senior class.

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Karl has also been awarded a

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Great job! Katie Wasserman and Johanna

Mathieu have each been awarded a Dean Horn

Scholarship for their excellent research projects!

Katie has also won an MTS ROV Student Scholarship and

the ASNE Undergraduate Award!

Press Release!!

Harold Burnham's latest schooner, FAME, a 62-foot

replica of a War of 1812 privateer, was launched

June 14th from the Essex Shipbuilding Museum.

Visit www.SchoonerFame.com.

Welcome… new MIT/WHOI Joint Program

students Celeste Fowler, Brendan Gotowka,

Jasper Hartsfield, and Taiwei Wang.

Looking for speakers…

for the fall lunch seminar series. Email amichel@mit.edu if you

would be interested in presenting a talk to the OE

department!

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ty of Washington presented the Project on March 19th. The project’s goal is to set up a

of underwater observatories in cific Ocean. Over 3,000 rs of fiber-optic/power cable will to allow scientific instruments to n the ocean floor for conducting

m studies of the seafloor and At this seminar, students

about all of the components that needed to build this complex tory. Ocean engineering will ey role in building the Neptune as new instruments, AUVs, and s will be needed.

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and Theater Level Impacts of ogy Infusion on Conventional ine Design” won the Graduate rize and Richard Camilli with

aut: An Odyssey Class AUV for the NEREUS Underwater pectrometer” came in a close with the Graduate Paper Award. L. Mathieu with “A Chemical to Aid in the Search for

logical Sites” won the aduate Honor Prize and Karl- W. McLetchie with “Drag

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Meg and Katie have completed the basic weight, balance, hydrostatic and hydrodynamic design of a TLP. The TLP is modeled after Brutus, a Shell owned vessel operating in approximately 3,000 ft of water in the Green Canyon Block of the Gulf of Mexico.

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The 6th Annual Discover Ocean Engineering Freshman PreAugust 19 to Friday, August 22. We are looking for Ocean Estudents to participate in our activities and talk to our DOE

sister/brother to a scared, impressionable incoming froshotherwise help a new student adjust to life at MIT. We ne

Tuesday, 8/19: 5pm - cookout and sailing on the CharWednesday, 8/20: Noon - Lunch with the DOE students

6pm – Dinner cruise on the Charles Ri

Thursday, 8/21: Noon - Lunch with the DOE students Afternoon – O.E. Lab Tours

Friday, 8/22: 2pm - Boston Harbor cruise on the RV(from the New England Aquariu

6pm - DOE final party

If you have an interest in one or more of these activities conEda Daniel (eda@mit.edu). You can learn about DOE at

ere analyzed to determine the stress and ey might experience due to Vortex Induced at the specific location the TLP is designed for t different current profiles. Katie and Meg have ed modeling the hull and superstructure in use finite element analyses to determine its

to gravity and wave loadings. The web page, .mit.edu/ktwass/Public /isodc.html contains atlab code, VIVA results, and basic info on the ost of the interesting results are in the s link off of the Design Report webpage. Many ign issues pertinent to offshore platform design ally covered in the basic undergraduate . As a result, the students have independently bout Bretschneider spectrums, VIV, eddy

events, mooring and other geotechnical and many other interesting and important g issues.

esigning a system that weighs well over 35,000 sits in 3,000 feet of water and subject to and rogue current events is extremely g and rewarding. Katie and Meg are very Professor Triantafyllou for his patience and his ou are interested in keeping track of their keep checking the webpage!

2003 Needs You!

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