Team UV Transferring to EAF!
The purpose of this post is purely to serve as a disclaimer to anyone who visits this website while the website is being re-configured: TeamUV.org is transferring to EngineeringAFuture.com.
I launched EngineeringAFuture.com a few years back in order to generate interest in the world of engineering amongst my readers; however, I was way too busy at the time and simply could not get the website up and running. Flash forward to April 2014, when I founded my college senior project team (named Team UV, UV for underwater vehicle) with the goal of designing a very innovative, biomimetic, stealthy, unmanned underwater vehicle that could serve in a reconnaissance role to save lives by taking more troops out of the field. While leading this project team, I began to realize something: I was surrounded by a very intelligent, passionate, like-minded team that could take the dream of EAF (Engineering A Future) and make it a reality.
This team could do a lot to help to bring in the next generation of scientists and engineers; not to mention the fact that the team itself could grow in a very significant, positive way by learning to better communicate with a non-scientific audience as well as by being pushed outside of our comfort zones in the name of learning. Thus, in July 2014, my team and I created and launched TeamUV.org with a few main goals:
1. To help my teammates (and myself) to become better at communicating ideas, conducting research, and overall to help us all to become more well-rounded individuals.
2. To share some of the research we were conducting/had conducted along the length of the senior project (14 months).
3. To help to inspire interest in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields amongst the general public.
11 months later, our senior project has ended after a very successful run in which we designed, built, and tested both our propulsion system demonstrator SHEILA-D and our final vehicle DORY, presented at 2 conferences, 2 research competitions (one of which we won), countless other presentations, were selected to represent the Mechanical Engineering department at the Cal Poly Pomona Engineering Project Showcase (where we placed in the top 3 teams), ran our very successful TeamUV.org website (which as of tonight has received about 8,000 views and nearly 200 favorites from 115 different countries through 156 posts), and spent in excess of 5,000 man hours (between the five of us) over the first 11.5 months of our project doing research, designing, analyzing, manufacturing, testing, and losing sleep.
I could not be more proud of what my team has accomplished, but all things must come to an end at some point, which brings us to the main reason for this post:
EngineeringAFuture.com will be re-launching on Monday July 13th!
Sadly, TeamUV.org will be publishing its last post on Friday July 10th, but the same kinds of posts (the goal of which will be to continue to help spread interest in the STEM fields amongst the general public) will resume promptly on the following Monday here at EAF. Many of the same writers as before will be carrying over from Team UV to the EAF team (myself included), and I can assure you that we all look forward to bringing our “A-game” to our posts here at EAF. In the meantime, you will be seeing a lot of renovation on this website, so please do not be turned away from the current lack of content or the many changes to come in the next few weeks and for all our Team UV followers out there, please continue to support us by following our final few weeks of posts at TeamUV.org and we look forward to talking to all of you again soon here at EAF!
Thank you for your time,
Brian