Senior year, I’m here, let’s go have a beer while we get in gear.  Have no fear… shed no tears

3 weeks in and I dislike only one class, which from what I understand is impossible to like in the first place, so I’m doing great.  Our design teams have been assigned and my team rocks.  We’re designing a submarine from scratch.  Only college team in the country designing a sub.  It’s going to be a hard, but rewarding, project.  I’m taking 2 research credits with Dr. Neu implementing the control system for the human powered sub.  I will probably spend all day saturday (minus the game) messing with it.  I’m supposed to give weekly status reports so I will probably start posting those to my blog.  I also feel I need a design blog cause I keep coming up with ideas.  Right now we’re trying to incorporate multiple Mission Configurable Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (MCUUVs, aka Mantas) into our sub.  Neat design, but there’s one inherent problem that I think I may have solved.  They basically take up a chunk of the hull, and when they deploy theres a depression in the surface that’s missing.  Since that’s only part of the exterior hydrodynamic hull, if there was something that inflated to take the place and smooth out the hydrodynamic profile of the sub, drag wouldn’t reduce when these Mantas are deployed.

In other news, I’m not playing the game.  It’s probably on but I just don’t care, and I couldn’t be happier.

Rock on

I pity the fool…