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Here’s a preliminary drawing for a wheeled submarine carrier I’ve been working on for the team.

I thought a quick update on the teams progress was far overdue. Now that most of the team has returned from co-op, we are able to get right back into things and improve the submarine for the next competition.

As far as the submarine is concerned we are planning on overhauling the majority of the internal systems, including the gearbox and drive train, steering system, and the emergency buoy. While we’re working on all of this, we also have a 4th year capstone team working a on the design of a new hull.

With the school year once again starting that means that another IMAGINE Day has come to pass at UBC. SUBC held a booth with Skookumchuck, our ISR 11 entry from this past summer.  There was lots of interest in the submarine and it was great to be able to show off our finished product.

After a few week in which an amazing amount of work was put in, we have finally arrived in Bethesda Maryland for the 11 ISR. We have been briefed by the event organizers will be starting to go through the requirements for racing tomorrow.

Thanks to everyone who helped get us here, and wish us luck!

Here’s a picture of the hull so far.

SUBC’s booth at this years E-fest managed to get the team some media attention. The
article – entitled “Engineering careers build strong teams” – contains contains interviews with members from UBC Steel Bridge, Formula UBC, and of course myself.

In other news, the team now has a tentative name for the sub – “Skookumchuck”.

The event was a great success! A special thanks to everyone who helped put on the event, and all the people who showed interest in SUBC and the fields of Engineering and Geoscience as a whole.

SUBC will be attending E-Fest this Saturday (i.e. tomorrow) at the Vancouver Public Library. The event showcases all kinds of great student teams, companies, and organizations relating to the disciplines of Engineering and Geoscience. So if you are interested in learning about Engineering or Geoscience or would just like to see some cool creations, drop on by. The event runs from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Hope to see you there!

So at this point we are nearly one full can of Bondo into the particularly dusty step of fairing the hull.  The first half of the hull is coming along quite nicely and the second half – although it still needs some work – should hopefully be following suit as soon as we get a warm(er), dry day.

More good news, SUBC managed to acquire sponsorship from CD-adapco, who have graciously offered to supply the team with several licenses for STAR-CCM+. With this powerful fluid dynamics software the team can now work on designing more efficient control surfaces and propulsion systems.

Finally, we are hoping to have a booth at this years upcoming E-fest at Vancouver Public Library. I will post more information once we have confirmed we will be there.