16th (virtual) International Submarine Races Awards Summary
A big SHOUT OUT to our corporate sponsors for their continued support of he races. Their contributions enable FURE to run the ISR and award the event prizes.
Event Sponsor: AMENTUM
Design Competition Award Sponsors: BMT Designers & Planners, Inc; Patrona Corporation; THOR Solutions, LLC; ELS, Inc.; Rite Solutions Inc.; A Friend of the Races; GRYPHON Technologies; Naval Submarine League; Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
Scholarship Donor: Poseidon International
Subsystem Design Challenge – Human Factors Engineering Design Process
A plaque and a $1000 award are given to the team that best presents a design report that recognizes the human as the critical interface for human powered submarine performance. Teams are required to submit a report that describes the design process used to interface the human into a human powered submarine design that can accommodate all required human functions within the submarine hull envelope. Additionally, teams are required to submit a rendering of the human in the design hull envelope. The runner up team will receive a plaque and $500.
First place: Human Powered Submarine Team, University of Washington
Runner-up: SUBC, University of British Columbia
Subsystem Design Challenge – Drivetrain Design
A plaque and a $1000 award are given to the team that best presents a design report that describes the approach used to determine the type of drivetrain selected for use in their human powered submarine. The report must describe, at a minimum, the factors considered during the selection of the drivetrain type, any tradeoffs that were considered, what constraints were considered, and the expected performance characteristics of the selected drive train. The runner up team will receive a plaque and $500.
First Place: SUBC, University of British Columbia
Runner-up: Human Powered Submarine Team, University of Washington
Honorable Mention: UVIC Submarine Racing Club, University of Victoria
Subsystem Design Challenge – Thrust Production Device Design
A plaque and a $1000 award are given to the team that best presents a report that describes the Thrust Production Device Design. Teams must describe the approach used to determine the type of thrust production device selected for use in their human powered submarine. The report also requires a description of how the device selected produces thrust, the factors considered during the selection, any tradeoffs that were considered, what constraints were considered, what material and manufacturing processes were considered and the expected performance characteristics of the selected thrust production device. The runner up team will receive a plaque and $500.
First Place: Virginia Tech
Runner-up: Texas A&M University
Honorable Mention: Godiva, University of Warwick
Subsystem Design Challenge – Maneuvering and Control Design
A plaque and a $1000 award are given to the team that best presents a report that describes the approach used to determine the type of maneuvering and control design selected for use in their human powered submarine. At a minimum, the report must describe the factors considered during the selection of the maneuvering and control design, any tradeoffs that were considered, what constraints were considered, and the expected performance characteristics of the selected maneuvering and control design. Additionally, a sketch of the control surfaces of the proposed human powered submarine was required. The runner up team will receive a plaque and $500.
First Place: Human Powered Submarine Team, University of Washington
Runner-up: Virginia Tech
Honorable Mention: Godiva, University of Warwick
The Future Submarine Technical and Design Challenge
A plaque and a $1000 award are given to the team that best presents a design report that identifies the design, technical, building, and testing challenges they believe they will have for their next in-water human powered submarine. The submitted design report requires that the teams identify and rank the expected challenges and risks; explain how the ranking criteria was developed; discusses how the challenges will be approached; identifies any technologies that will be required; and identifies resources that are required to address the challenges. The runner up team in this category will receive a plaque and $500.
First Place: Human Powered Submarine Team, University of Washington
Runner-up: SUBC University of British Columbia
Operational Problem Solving Challenge
A plaque and a $1000 award are given to the team that best responded in real time to a set of scenarios depicting several real-world problem-solving opportunities that might be encountered during a typical race event. Teams were judged on team interaction, internal team discussions, decision making, the technical validity of the decisions made, and action planning to respond to and resolve the issues identified. The runner up team will receive a plaque and $500.
First Place: Human Powered Submarine Team, University of Washington
Runner-up: Virginia Tech
Honorable Mention: Southampton University Human Powered Submarine (SUHPS), University of Southampton
2021 Foundation for Underwater Research and Education (FURE) Scholarship Winner
An award of $2000 is made to Ms. Hannah Douglas who recently graduated from Sussex County (Technical) High School. She is a member of the UMPTYSQUATCH team. Ms. Douglas will be matriculating to Wilkes University in Wilkes Barr, Pennsylvania this fall where she will major in Mechanical Engineering.