The Fourth PEP Competition is Almost Here!
Funded by ONR Grant #N00014-23-1-2179
We are so excited to see you at Portsmouth City Park (Cpl J M Williams Ave, Portsmouth, VA 23701) on
June 27. There will be plenty of snacks and food onsite, and there will be 6-8 support boats in the
area to keep you safe. Some teams will be presenting their craft onsite, others are selecting to do
this presentation on Monday afternoon. The current versions of the competition schedules are below as are video updates.
If you have any questions, please email education@navalengineers.org!
We encourage your friends, supporters, industry connections, faculty advisors, and university
community to join us for a celebration of all the hard work you did to get to this point (and more
motivation to take home the gold on June 27). You can see information about the Multi-Agency Craft Conference as well.
As we continue to grow PEP, we are pushing our internship, scholarship, and job placement outreach.
If you are a PEP competitor still looking for work, please complete the "Students" survey
below. If you are an employer looking to hire engineers with real-world experience developing craft
from ideation through testing, please complete the "Employers" survey below. Please click
"Login" in the upper right corner above before accessing the survey so your results are recorded
properly.
Quick Updates! Keep checking back for more info
Rounding into the Homestretch
Here is the in-water schedule as of May 27th and we will continue to update it as we receive updates
from teams.
As we near the fourth PEP competition, it's incredible to see how far this community has moved
forward. The Office of Naval research has doubled down on their support, and has committed
significant resources through Fall 2025. The number of teams continues to expand, and we currently
expect 8 manned vessels and 12 unmanned craft. We have already seen impressive growth in existing
teams as they recruit new members, explore new designs, and build multiple crafts for competition.
As a community-led group, we are proud that the Student Leadership Committee worked on this year's
competition rules and continue to provide leadership locally and nationally.
Looking ahead, we are excited to visit YOU in your communities. Our focus right now is strengthening
each team's industry connections and local support. If you need anything to make these connections
more strongly, please let us know how we can help. We will be working closely with each team this
semester so we can reach the competition at the Multi-Agency Craft Conference as strong as possible.
A couple successes we want to trumpet:
- Washington College hosted a successful Earth Day Jam eRegatta! Check out their site: https://www.wacelectricboat.com/earthdayjam-eregatta
- The University of Pittsburgh team had a wonderful write up in Boating magazine.
Congrats on this great article!
- Texas A&M had a great write up in December about their first-place finish last May.
- Michigan Electric Boat has a wonderful new Sponsorship
Packet.
Did we miss something? Let us know! You can always
contact us at education@navalengineers.org.
This year's competition will occur during the Multi-Agency Craft
Conference on June 27-28 in Portsmouth, VA. The goal remains the same: five miles as
quickly as possible while remaining safe. Returning competitors will confirm this race is an
endurance and engineering competition masquerading as a race. Design for reliability!
We also have a series of events to support your professional growth and team building:
We are often asked how to begin. The only mandatory step is to complete this form (PDF & Word) by September 30 of each season.
We also suggest that you reach out and set up a meeting with Mike to talk about your plans, ask any
questions, and hear a little more about this year's unique opportunities. There are few race rules,
so we suggest your team quickly identifies and evaluates a few different designs and settles on a
baseline design that seems within your budget. Then, you will want to identify a system that you can
design and test before winter break. It's key to begin fabricating and testing before the spring
semester if you want to have time to test and improve your craft in the fall. We are happy to meet
with you as often as is useful for you. You are not alone.
If you have any questions, please email us! When
you are ready to submit the form, just email it to education@navalengineers.org
Interested in learning about PEP? You can email us directly or explore the documents in the
2023 Competition Information tab to the left. You may also want to review the Competition
Celebrations to see the range of designs in the manned and unmanned competitions.
Why do we Promote Electric Propulsion?
Check out these videos that introduced the 2022 PEP Competition. Dr.
Steven Russell is the Program Officer from the Office of Naval Research who has overseen and guided
PEP from the very beginning. CAPT Dale Lumme is ASNE's Executive Director and brings a unique
perspective of how PEP fits in the naval engineering workforce.
PEP: Powering the Future Workforce
The Naval Engineering community needs a more diverse, energetic workforce ready to tackle modern
problems. PEP empowers students with knowledge and real-world experience. This senior project is
consistently one of the most sought-after options in ME departments. This program brings new
perspectives and new voices to the naval engineering, and prepares them to be successful upon
graduation.
These universities and ASNE's form two legs of a three-legged stool that includes industry. These
teams need industry partners to provide mentors, in-kind donations, and a window into professional
naval engineering. These student teams are meeting virtually throughout Fall semester providing a
unique opportunity for professionals to join the conversation for an hour or two, and help guide the
future naval engineering workforce.
PEP includes hundreds of college students in universities across the country. They need our help to
complete this education and find their career.
Interested in joining in the fun? The PEP program is still adding a couple more
teams for the 2023 competition. We give grants to schools to help them compete in PEP and connect
them with industry experts over the course of the year to facilitate their designs and fabrications.
Students conceive, design, build, test and race their own craft for a five-mile race.
PEP Updates
Before you head back to school, we invite you to join us
at these exciting events (free for undergrads):
Thanks to the new PEP grant, we are excited to finally come to see you in labs,
testing areas, and communities. In addition, we are excited to announce that we will
be using the boat ramp at Portsmouth City Park to organize the PEP competition on
June 27 (Cpl J M Williams Ave, Portsmouth, VA 23701). If you have not yet locked in
a time to meet with us, please email education@navalengineers.org and we will
find the time! We encourage your friends, supporters, industry connections, faculty
advisors, and university community to join us for a celebration of all the hard work
you did to get to this point (and more motivation to take home the gold on June 27).
Come see us at:
- Mar 4: Regional TSA Competition at Thomas Jefferson HS (Fairfax
County, MD)
- Mar 9: Aerospace Aviation Summit (Andrews Air Force Base)
- Mar 11: PAX River STEAM Event (Patuxent River Naval Air Museum)
- Mar 31-Apr 1: Dahlgren Innovation Challenge
- Apr 2: Sea-Air-Space STEM Day (National Harbor, MD)
- Apr 12: ODU Maritime Symposium (Virginia Modeling & Simulation
Center)
- Apr 22: Earth Day Jam eRegatta (Washington College;
Chestertown, MD)
- Apr 28: Stevens Institute Senior Design Day
- Apr 29: UCONN Senior Design Day
- May 3:University of Wisconsin-Madison demo day
- May 4: University of Michigan demo day
- May 5: Carderock Math Contest
- May 11: Texas A&M demo day
- May 13: Techstravaganza at Thomas Jefferson HS (Fairfax County,
VA)
We will continue to update this list of outreach events.
Already this year, we were excited to share the PEP competition videos and artifacts
with students participating in NSBE's Black Engineer of the Year Award STEM program
and the Fairfax County Career Fair.
Rounding into the Homestretch
As we start 2023, it's incredible to see how far this community has moved forward.
The Office of Naval research has doubled down on their support, and has committed
significant resources through Fall 2025. The number of teams continues to expand,
and we are welcoming 11 new schools to the competition. We have already seen
impressive growth in existing teams as they recruit new members, explore new
designs, and build multiple crafts for competition. As a community-led group, we are
proud that the Student Leadership Committee worked on this year's competition rules and continue to
provide leadership locally and nationally.
Looking ahead, we are excited to visit YOU in your communities. Our focus right now
is strengthening each team's industry connections and local support. If you need
anything to make these connections more strongly, please let us know how we can
help. We will be working closely with each team this semester so we can reach the
competition at the Multi-Agency Craft Conference as strong as possible.
PEP is well underway at 25 universities across the country! We are excited to see all
the student ingenuity as they address this open-ended engineering challenge with a
variety of innovative designs. In addition, our outreach at The Battery Show and
Fleet Maintenance Modernization Symposium are creating strong industry-university
connections. Companies: Now is the time to support these teams full of your next
hires!
Welcome aboard to these new schools joining the PEP competition:
- United States Naval Academy
- North Carolina State
- William & Mary
- University of Connecticut
- Christopher Newport
- University of Rhode Island
- University of Maryland
- University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Florida Atlantic University
- Florida Institute of Technology
Some of the PEP community were able to gather on the Eastern Shore for the
twenty-second Annual Wye Island Challenge. The race included an acceleration
challenge and the 24-mile endurance race around the island. It was great to see the
new U.S. Naval Academy craft take first place, and Washington College finish second.
Here are some images from a great day at the Wye Island Race in St. Michaels, MD.
Remembering Race Day 2022
Each team at Pohick Bay did an amazing job persevering
through challenges and finding ways to maximize success. Please upload
any photos and videos here as we compile these celebrations over
the weekend. Thank YOU for making PEP successful!
We are continuing to build pages that show each team's
strengths and needs. Please let us know how we can better capture your team's
progress and 2023 goals, so we can collaborate on building your financial and mentor
networks next year. You can see all these pages in the PEP 2022 Competition
Celebration.
Overview
Promoting Electric Propulsion (PEP) for Small Craft is
an educational and competitive program to foster the development of electric boats
in the United States. College teams are granted up to $7,000 and
put in touch with mentors and online learning to ensure they can safely construct an
electric-powered boat that can complete a five-mile race. The third PEP competition
was held May 26, 2022 at Pohick Bay, VA. We look forward to hosting the fourth
competition during the Multi-Agency Craft
Conference on June 27, 2023.
Before you head back to school, we invite you to join us
at these exciting events (free for undergrads):
- June 1-3 (San Diego, CA): MegaRust is conducted annually to
provide a consolidated focus on Navy corrosion issues. Corrosion is a major
factor in the readiness and total ownership cost of naval systems and this
conference is intended to provide updated information on programs, policies,
standards and Fleet experience related to corrosion and to promote discussion
and sharing of information on technologies and strategies for controlling
corrosion. Registeration is now closed.
- June 14-16 (Philadelphia, PA): ASNE’s Technology, Systems and
Ships (TSS) Symposium will be highlighting inspirational women mentors and STEM
advocates. This event will present a diverse set of speakers. Topics that are
planned to be addressed include Women in Engineering, Artificial Intelligence
and Machine Learning, Workforce development, training and building the next
generation of naval engineers. Registeration is now
closed.
- July 20-21 (Philadelphia, PA): Advanced Machinery Technology
Symposium (AMTS) offers technical presentations, expert panels, and networking
opportunities to our community of professionals. Join us for part or all of this
conference. Registeration is now closed.
Looking ahead to PEP 2023!
ASNE is excited to announce that we are inviting student
leaders to join the PEP Leadership Committee. Possible roles include establishing
Race Regulations, Marketing & Outreach, and Supporting New Teams. Please complete
this survey to volunteer for this exciting leadership opportunity:
Thank you to all the teams that have found a few minutes
to debrief with us and help strengthen the competition. As we discussed in these
one-on-one sessions and dockside at Pohick, we are looking forward to adding a
Design Review component to the competition next year. We are also considering ways
to make the race safer and the design process more supported. Together, we are
strengthening this competition as a community—continuing the spirit of
cooperation that we see every time we get together. We truly want to hear from you
this summer if you have the time. Just shoot us an email and we will find
the time!
We want to say THANK YOU one more time to everyone that made the May 26 competition
at Pohick Bay such a success. We are looking forward to working with you in the Fall
and seeing the teams compete in Norfolk next May. If there is anything we can do to
help you professionally or help your team this summer, please shoot us an email.
In the meantime, here is the article Mike wrote for the Naval Engineers
Journal and the day-of video he recorded.
Throughout this school year, ASNE has promoted electric
propulsion through a grant from the Office of Naval Research. College teams
participating in the Promoting Electric Program (PEP) receive $7,000 to design,
build, test, and race their craft in a five-mile race. In addition, these teams are
closely connected to ASNE's scholarship program, section meetings, and our
various symposia. ASNE provides job/internship information to the competitors and
matches these dedicated engineers to jobs in our industry. On May 26, these
activities came to a head in Pohick Bay off the Potomac River for an exciting day of
competition and comradery of manned and unmanned races.
In the manned competition, Washington College's
beautiful wooden craft took first place completing the five miles in 22 minutes, 38
seconds. There ice water-cooled electric motor had more than enough power, and their
battery packs had plenty of storage. In second place, Old Dominion University
completed nearly the entire race in 25 minutes and 29 seconds. Using four marine
batteries in series and propeller on a five-foot-long axle, the team reflected their
dedication and ingenuity. As team lead Daniel Erdogan said, “It's not the size
of the team, it's the size of the heart within the team.” In third place, first
year competitors from Pittsburgh put in a solid performance completing 3 miles in
37:13. Zodiac Milpro generously donated their inflatable craft which served as the
foundation for a solid design that can be improved by the dozens of teammates that
came together this year to form the team. North Carolina A&T put in a solid showing
with their ruggedly-designed craft; they had more than enough power to complete the
five miles and put in a great showing. The Princeton manned craft had great power,
but suffered issues during the race—the team is on the right track for true In the
week before the event, Wake Forest University blew out a shaft coupler and the
University of Georgia had connections issues and did not make it to the start line.
The Kentucky team showed true grit modifying their unmanned design to go manned,
overcoming a wiring issue in their initial heat, and put in a solid three mile
performance through their ingenuity and dedication.
In the unmanned competition, the stellar team from Texas
A&M set the overall PEP record, completing the five miles in 17 minutes, 42 seconds.
This team came together quickly this year and began testing early in the Fall
semester. With two seniors and three underclassmen in attendance, this team showed
engineering excellence throughout the year. In second place, Stevens Institute
narrowly edged out Johns Hopkins University. Both teams created strong designs but
faced mid-race challenges that necessitated quick thinking and fast repairs by the
operators of the craft. The University of Michigan Electric Boat team brought an
impressive 550-kg, hydrofoil design, and worked tirelessly to get it into the water.
Sadly, water found its way into their motors and they were unable to compete.
Princeton's unmanned craft demonstrated raw power, appearing to top 25 knots.
However, the system needed a bit more refinement in order to compete on the race
course. Virginia Tech also brought their unmanned craft but burned up too many ESCs
to compete.
PEP needs you! Teams can use mentorship
and technical expertise as well as in-kind and financial donations to help them
build their crafts. This year, ASNE's STEM Fund covered the cost of food and
drinks, and we look forward to providing a more robust competitor experience during
PEP 2023 in Portsmouth, VA. If you can help us grow, please reach out to education@navalengineers.org.
Before you head back to school, we invite you to join us at these exciting events
(free for undergrads):
- June 14 (Arlington, VA): Representative Rob Wittman (VA-01),
House Armed Services Committee, Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee
Ranking Member, will join the ASNE community to share his thoughts on current
congressional affairs. After his presentation, there will be an extensive
networking session. Free
registration for all attendees.
- June 16 (Arlington, VA): Women in Engineering keynote and panel
with Workforce Development panel to follow. Speakers include Ms. Margaret G.
Palmieri, SES, DOD Deputy Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer
(CDAO); Ms. Anne Sandel, SES, Principal Civilian Deputy to the Assistant
Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition; Mrs. Stephanie
Hill, Executive Vice President of Rotary & Mission Systems, Lockheed Martin; Dr.
Sandy Magnus, former NASA Astronaut, former DOD Deputy Director, OSD
Undersecretary, Research & Engineering, and former NASA Astronaut; Ms. Matice
Wright-Springer, Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, former Naval
Aviator (TACAMO); RADM Tony Lengerich, USN (Ret.), former ASNE President; Chris
Deegan, former President & CEO, Gibbs & Cox; Scott Porter, Director-Strategic
Initiatives, Thales Defense & Security, Inc.; Dr. Leigh McCue, Associate
Professor, George Mason University, former ASNE Executive Director; and Admiral
John Richardson, USN (Ret.), former Chief of Naval Operations. Register now!
The Office of Naval Research & ASNE community are excited for Thursday, May 26
ASNE and our sponsors at the Office of Naval Research are excited to see you on May
26 to celebrate another year of Promoting Electric Propulsion. We know your manned
and unmanned designs took lots of work and you are still testing to maximize your
race day success. Remember that this race is as much about endurance as it is about
speed; you may want to find speeds and battery usage rates that focus on protecting
your system rather than maxing out your design.
Over the course of this week, we are uploading materials to maximize your race-day
experience and ensure you know exactly where to go. Two requests:
- If you haven't signed the race-day regulations, please download and sign
it.
- We are excited to greet your guests, please email me with a head count so
we can be prepared.
We have been working hard with our industry partners to match PEP participants with
open job opportunities. If you did not complete the job-finding survey in the
Spring, please email your resume, web address for your LinkedIn page, and any
geographic/job role information that is important. We are excited to help you take
those next steps, and the ASNE community is not only providing food and water during
the event, they are excited to help you transition into our exciting industry.
See you at Pohick Bay on Thursday, May 26, 2022!
We are excited to
announce that the 2022 competition will be held at Pohick Bay Regional Park in
Occoquan, Virginia on May 26, 2022. The images in this tab show that the water is a
protected bay off of the Potomac River, and we have visited the site enough to know
that the water behaves very similarly to Arundel Creek, so the 2021 competition
videos are still a good representation of the water conditions you should anticipate
on race day. We have also expanded the awards available to teams. Please see the
"2022 Competition Information" and "Competition Rules" tabs for
these updated details.
Quick PEP Video Introduction
We are so excited to host our competition at Pohick Park on Thursday, May 26, 2022.
The biggest news is that people are looking for you! We have created this survey to
figure out how many people will join us at the PEP competition AND help you connect
with these businesses:
We are lining up career talks for the next couple months. In the meantime, please
take a look at the job opportunities at Pure Watercraft, ServiceNow, Flux Marine, and Siemens
Also, our conferences are going virtual and they are still FREE for you. Feel free to
attend only the parts that are interesting to you. You can sign up now for:
My final word to you is one you heard in the fall: Get to
work!! Please take this opportunity to fabricate components and
integrate systems. These are huge projects that will require a lot of testing and
improvement. Waterproofing alone will take a good chunk of time to hone and protect.
Every minute you can work now will save you minutes of stress in April/May. If you
need anything, please do not hesitate to email us at any time.
See you at Pohick Bay on Thursday, May 26, 2022!
I have talked with many of the teams this fall and know that you are working hard to
get the project moving quickly. Please keep it up! The teams that were able to
finish fabrication in February/March and focus on testing and improvements in the
Spring not only had better results, they were able to sleep with less stress!
Don't stress yourself out, work hard now and complete tasks as soon as you can.
Two quick updates: First, we are excited to welcome these teams to the community .
And, secondly, please look at the PEP Talks and Internship tabs for the resources
that are freely available to you!
It was so great to culminate a year's worth of engineering, late nights, hard
work, and stressful testing with a competition in Arundel Creek at the U.S. Coast
Guard Yard Baltimore. Each team brought energy, ingenuity, and a collaborative
spirit. It was great to connect the teams with each other and to all the attendees
at the Multi-Agency Craft Conference. For more details about the day's events
and videos/images from the day, please see the 2021 PEP celebration
page.
Over the summer, we also added some new participants to the PEP competition. We are
happy to welcome aboard teams from Johns Hopkins University, Tennessee Tech,
University of Pittsburgh, and Wake Forest University. Some of these participants
were on-site in Baltimore in July and witnessed the excitement and ingenuity from
2021 and they are excited to add to the field in 2022.
At this point, we have sent out all funding checks for the upcoming school year and
awards from the victorious 2021 teams. If you do not have your money, please let us
know!
If you have any questions, comments, or things to share, please email Mike at any time. Thanks for
making PEP special!
https://www.navalengineers.org/PEP2021
Congratulations to all PEP Participants!
July 21, 2021 was a great day for all PEP participants. Teams came from hundreds and
thousands of miles after a pandemic-filled school year to enjoy the fruits of their
labor. We were excited that all teams were able to compete, show off, and network.
In the manned competition, the University of Kentucky Energized Outboards team
finished in front of Michigan Solar Sea, Michigan E-Jetski, and Old Dominion
University. In the unmanned division, Stevens Institute outperformed George
Mason's craft and Virginia Tech looks forward to the 2022 competition.
Click here to see our post-race recap.
Pre-Event Videos
These videos were part of the pre-competition outreach that generated more interest
and excitement about the race. These teams started designing their craft months (and
in some cases years) before race day. The hard work is done at the universities as
teams chase bugs in their code, bend plywood, and create truly watertight
connections. These videos document some of those excellent efforts.
PEP Celebration is now
Live!
Please feel free to share this link with family, friends and future competitors.
Thanks for making this event special!
https://www.navalengineers.org/PEP2021
Collegiate teams can recruit new student engineers with this flyer, and sign up using
this
sign-up sheet. You can send the sign-up sheet and any questions to education@navalengineers.org.
Questions? Email Mike at any time.
Get Excited for Stevens, GMU, Catholic, and Michigan!
We are excited to sharee that Dr. Maureen Foley presented Introduction to
Requirements Definition and Materials Selection in Developing New Components for
U.S. Navy Applications on March 19. Not only is she an expert in her field,
but she is particularly passionate about engaging engineering students and answering
their questions. You have investigated many materials through PEP and this
hour-long presentation and discussion will help broaden your horizons in this
critical, and growing, field. Register
today!
MACC traditionally has a sizeable international audience so we are planning a hybrid
conference. As you may have seen in previous conferences, we present technical
presentations 48 hours before the conference and then have a Q&A session. We
would love to have a video describing your design for this conference. This video
could simply be a recording of your capstone presentation. Or, if you want to make a
video after the semester that captures the engineering successes, you could also
choose to make a special presentation that presents your work to a professional
audience. As always, you can ask us
for help if you have questions, thoughts or concerns about this opportunity.
The ASNE scholarships may not make sense for graduating seniors, but if you
are considering graduate school or have undergraduate teammates, please share these
$4,000 scholarship opportunities. We hope you
apply. The scholarship is open to all students are engaged in engineering
disciplines related to naval engineering. PEP participants and future PEP
participants are at a particular advantage since you are already showing your
involvement with naval engineering.
Before we get to MACC, ASNE is hosting the Intelligent Ships Symposium. Teams
that investigated unmanned systems are particularly encouraged to investigate the
agenda and drop in for a session that piques your interest. As always, registration
is completely free for undergraduate students.
We have been touching base with your teams and know that this is a busy time in your
schedule. I hope you find enjoyment in how much you, individually, and your team,
collectively, are able to produce in this short period of time. Your first semester
plans have probably shifted in some ways, but that planning is providing you with
the structure and foundation to see this through to the end. We are so excited to
you see you dockside on July 21, 2021 in Baltimore!
ASNE knows that PEP participants are working hard at all hours to get all the
coursework done. Now that we have finally reached winter break, I wanted to
personally reach out and see how we can work together before the start of the Spring
semester. Here are a couple things you can use from now until December
31 to dive more deeply into aspects of naval engineering and electric
propulsion:
- Fleet Maintenance & Modernization Symposium included numerous keynotes,
presentations from materials engineer Dr. Maureen Foley, and presentation by the
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that you should definitely
consider at some point in your career (recordings here).
- The Advanced Machinery & Technology Symposium included technical paper
tracks on propulsion, power systems, controls, cybersecurity, energy storage and
data analytics. The papers, PPTs, and videos of their Q&A are available here.
- November's Combat System Symposium focuses more on the navy warfighting
systems. Unless you have been really careful with your budget and an aggressive
race strategy, there may not be as many useful resources here. But, keynotes and
the voices of engineers in the field are always useful and you can check it out here.
Scholarships are now available! Independent of the PEP program, ASNE
offers $4,000 scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students engaging in naval
engineering career paths. You can find all the details on the ASNE Scholarship page. Please consider it for
yourselves and pass this information along to your friends.
We are looking to update the FAQs. If you have open questions that
are still causing issues OR questions you had to resolve that would be better
addressed in the beginning, please email us those details at education@navalengineers.org. Now
that you can do exactly what you want, please push yourself to be the best engineer
you can be!
This Fall all the hard work is being led by a dozen teams across the country. They
have been imagining electrical power systems to ensure their craft can complete the
five-mile course this summer. Some teams have spent time procuring the perfect hull
for their crafts while other teams have designed their hull from scratch. This work
involves engineering concepts like propulsion, drag, and power output. It also has
forced teams to work with project management concepts like risk, budgets, and
project timelines. They are also integrating technology like microcontrollers,
simulators and computer-assisted design programs.
If you want to support this program, please email us at education@navalengineers.org.
Thanks so much to all the PEP teams for your hard work this semester!
PEP is concluding its active recruitment of new teams; get your applications
in soon! Our Summer 2020 pitch: If you are planning your senior
capstone activities, count PEP in! We can grant your department up to $7,000 to
ensure your PEP team has a successful year. Given current conditions, we foresee
teams being able to connect virtually, work with design software, and share
analyses. If you foresee a full school year of distance/modified learning, then we
suggest the December deliverable is a Gantt Chart or 4D model that outlines how the
team can assemble the components while meeting your school's social distancing
regulations and best practices as outlined by the CDC.
We are here to help! Email us education@navalengineers.org this
summer, in the fall, whenever you want to discuss how to make this project work with
your unique situation. Or, simply complete the Corporate/University
sign up form (only complete what addresses your situation). Thanks so much
for your hard work to make this a productive year for these developing engineers!
Traditionally, May is when college seniors celebrate their hard-earned degrees and
take a breath before joining the workforce or professional degree programs. PEP
competitors added one key task to their year-end activities: documenting and
distributing their work to future PEP teams. With this hard documentation work,
2020-2021 teams will be able to complete fabrication and testing. ASNE personally
thanks each team member for spending the extra late-night hours on the PPTs, the 3D
models, and the virtual documentation that will ensure the next PEP competition sees
this design work through to the finish.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the MACC conference and the PEP competition will be
postponed until July 2021. Although we are saddened that this year's teams will
not be able to participate, we are proud of the work PEP participants did to make
this year a success despite incredible challenges. These students worked tirelessly
to design and document these projects. THANK YOU for your hard work and dedication!