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Marine Energy Collegiate Competition Submission Due on 30-September

Just a reminder that the DoE Marine Energy Collegiate Competition is accepting applications (5 pages) through September 30th.  This is a good opportunity to get insight into marine renewable energy research and a student team from NC A&T State university … Continue reading

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Undergrad Research Assistants….Upgraded

With all of the uncertainty out in the world these it is nice to have some familiar faces returning this Fall. Peter and Tyler graduated with BS MET degrees back in May and supported the magnetic gearing research team through … Continue reading

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Waves To Water Success

In all the chaos and uncertainty that has characterized the summer, I am happy to report some good news.  The WaterBros team was successful in the second round of the Waves to Water competition and will be moving forward in … Continue reading

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Sina’s new journal article to be published in August

I am proud of all of the hard work that Sina did to get this paper to publication.  It took diligence from the initial experiments and simulations all the way through the revisions and submission process.  Thanks as well to … Continue reading

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Local Makers Contributing PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic

I’ve been impressed by the response of makers in the Charlotte community to the need for PPE in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.  It would be easy to just crank up the 3D printer and think that you are … Continue reading

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Magnetic Gearing Students produce…Mechanical Gears

Tyler and Peter were able to help out the NASA Lunabotics team this semester by doing the CAM work in Fusion 360 to replace a couple of custom gears that had worn out over the years.  The group has produced … Continue reading

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Waves 2 Water: Round 2

Even with all of the COVID-19 chaos in the background, Landon and I got our submission into the Design Stage of the Waves to Water Prize.  We ended up bringing in some UNC Charlotte to help us get across the … Continue reading

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