Maroon Harpoon
Team Members Abel Medellin Ginny Wisenhunt Alex Knoll Joel Oriaku Arnold Valle Jonathan Davis Bryce Ford Lance Gordon Todd Shipman Carla Ibanez Michael Freyman Ben Collins Gary Liles Nathan Krohn David Massey Tim Fluitt Duncan Brotzman Cynthia Vittone (not present) Dr. Randall - Advisor
Overview Hull Construction and Considerations Life Support Safety Controls Drive Train Propulsion Testing Instrumentation
Hull Construction Kevlar Syntactic Foam Lathed Foam mold
Life support and Safety Primary Air Supply 60 ft 3 Tank Spare Air Emergency Buoy Strobe Light Driver releasable harness
Controls Steering column Steel cables Control planes Roll pitch yaw
Drive Train Gear Box Pedals Integrated deadman More reinforcement Adjustability Threaded rod receiver Gear box Emergency buoy bracket
Propulsion Propellers Variable pitch Hub
Propeller Test Determine most efficient prop. Load cell to determine thrust Variable RPM motor
Propeller Testing Results
Instrumentation Measurements Torque RPM Electronics Parallax Propeller Memory Stick
Sponsors Texas A&M Zachry Department of Civil Engineering Texas A&M Ocean Engineering Program Offshore Technology Research Center MTS (Houston Section) SNAME (Texas Section) Baumann Propellers, Inc Diab Group Oceaneering International, Inc. Resin Services Duna USA, Inc. TexStars Inc. Paradise Scuba Penske Truck Rentals