Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Tech Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lifford McLauchlan, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Jayson Durham, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific)

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

Sensor-net Self-Organization and Control (SenSOC) and other next-generation capabilities within a broad rangeof potentially unanticipated operational contexts”9 which aids improved mission planning andrehearsal.9-10 Modeling and simulation environments such as AUV Workbench present engagingPBL opportunities to introduce students to interactive simulations based on vehicle test data andphysics based models thereby supporting science and technology research and education.The Introduction to Electrical Engineering course at Texas A&M University-Kingsville wasrecently replaced by a new freshman seminar course. Under the new course format, studentshave less time in the lab, as the new structure has two contact hours in the lab/class versus

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Tech Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W. Whalin PE, Jackson State University; Qing Pang, Jackson State University

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

power levels of thelate 1950's early 1960's. During the past two decades the Corps of Engineers district offices havecontracted more and more of their planning and design studies to the private sector. This trendhas included contracting with foreign coastal and ocean engineering firms to detriment of theprivate sector US firms in this area. Sometimes design studies have been contracted to foreignlaboratories. Furthermore the European Economic Union has mandated the oil companies andother corporations drilling in the North Sea and other areas perform any laboratory studiesneeded in European laboratories. This situation leads to US firms helping support foreignlaboratories. Through the last three decades, continuous pressure on mission agency

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Tech Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.)

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

; 2. The experimental measurements, data acquisition and analysis; andThe use of an energy harvesting circuitry to charge a battery and a super-capacitor bank 3. Energy Harvesting Systems for Costal MonitoringThis project is an underway project for MET 421/422/423 (Senior Project Design), preformed bya team of four students, two electrical and two mechanical seniors. MET 421/422/423 is asequence of three-quarter capstone project design courses required for all the BSET majors. Thecourse focuses on planning, development, and implementation of an engineering design project,which includes formal report writing, project documentation, group presentations, and projectdemonstrations. The goal of these courses is to demonstrate the ability to