ROV competitions for students: improving marine technology education and helping to meet workforce needs

Author

Zande, Jill ; Sullivan, Deidre ; Michel, Damien

Author_Institution

Monterey Peninsula Coll., Marine Adv. Technol. Educ. Center, Monterey, CA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2003

fDate

22-26 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

2263

Abstract

What started as a back-of-the-envelope type of idea to engage students in marine technology and connect them to marine industries has turned into a program that involves more than 300 students, working in teams, to design and build ROVs for missions based on real-world problems, with more than 50 organizations and 45 technical professionals contributing to make the program a success. When the MATE Centre and the Marine Technology Society´s (MTS) ROV Committee came together to establish the framework for a student ROV competition program, we had no idea that it would grow into something that involved so many students, educators, employers, and working professionals.

Keywords

educational institutions; marine systems; oceanography; seafloor phenomena; MATE Centre; Marine Technology Society; ROV competition program; education; marine industry; marine technology; organizations; students; technical professionals; Collaborative work; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Educational technology; Employment; Engineering profession; Machining; Marine technology; Remotely operated vehicles; Shipbuilding industry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS 2003. Proceedings

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-933957-30-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.2003.178259

Filename

1282837