The OMER human-powered submarine team: From classroom to competition

Author

Joncas, S. ; Belleau, C.

Author_Institution

Ecole de Technol. Super., Montreal, QC

fYear

2008

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

The Omer Human Powered Submarine team is an engineering student club founded in 1991 at the Ecole de technologie Superieure in Montreal, Canada. Student members of the club design and build submarines to participate in international races. For the last decade, the team has been performing extremely well, often dominating the race class they compete in. The team currently holds the speed records of three categories, namely the one-person propeller category with 7.192 knots, the two-person propeller category with 8.035 knots and the one-person non-propeller category with 4.642 knots. This article exposes some of the elements contributing to this success. Design characteristics, student background, faculty support, team management and infrastructure will be some of the topics discussed.

Keywords

design engineering; propellers; student experiments; team working; underwater vehicles; Ecole de technologie Superieure; Omer Human Powered Submarine team; design characteristics; engineering student club; international races; one-person nonpropeller category; one-person propeller category; team management; two-person propeller category; Educational institutions; Engineering students; Humans; Laboratories; Marine technology; Propellers; Propulsion; Student members; Underwater vehicles; Vehicle safety;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS 2008

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2619-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2620-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.2008.5151825

Filename

5151825