Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] University Competition

["D. Blake" <dblake@bright.net>]

It reminds me of grad school at OU.  Every other year is a turnover and new
beginning.  This is a commentary on faculty's reluctance to build on
knowledge gained through past experience in an attempt to educate new
students.  There are fundamentals that must be learned through a process of
cognitive dissonance ie: trial and error.  In other words, you must learn
the hard way for the knowledge to be effective as a part of your overall
knowledge base.
We can provide help which will illustrate the resourcefulness of design team
members, but will do little to illustrate the team's ability to create from
originality.  Still, I'am provoked.  Let's help these dudes design an
outragious sub that will walk all over the competition.
Big Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Wade Carson <wacarson@interchange.ubc.ca>
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 4:46 PM
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] University Competition


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>Stan, it is the same race.  I'd love to see some of the pictures you might
>have.  Unfortunately, due to funding problems and the fact that we have no
>past members on the team, we are looking more for something functional than
>spectacular.  Although, it's not my section I would also be interested in
>hearing any advice on ballast systems and what would be effective.
>Additionally, our assumption thus far is that roll will not be a
significant
>difficulty and any variations in roll can be corrected by weight
>distribution (e.g. moment caused by propeller).  Initially, I thought it
>would be foolish not to include some sort of provision for roll control,
but
>I was voted down by the other members.  Any thoughts there?
>
>Wade
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