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About the Book

Underwater Robotics:

Science, Design & Fabrication • ISBN: 978-0-9841737-0-9 • Authors: Dr. Steven W. Moore, Harry Bohm, Vickie Jensen • Illustrator: Nola Johnston • Pages: 770 with bios, appendices, glossary and index • Over 500 illustrations, diagrams and photographs • Publisher: Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE)

Center, Monterey, CA • Ordering info: www.westcoastwords.com or www.marinetech.org • Price: $99.95 plus shipping

There was a time when designing and fabricating under- water robots to carry out subsea work was the domain of professionals, preferably those with lots of expertise and education. But things have changed. And how! Over the last decade, underwater robots have invaded hundreds of garage workshops and junior high, senior high, home school, and university classrooms, as teachers, students, and tech enthusiasts have been drawn to the hands-on learning that designing, building, and piloting these underwater craft can provide.

Many of these newcomers cut their teeth on Build Your

Own Underwater Robot and Other Wet Projects, an enthusiastic introduction co-authored by Harry Bohm and Vickie Jensen and published by Westcoast Words.

Student teams built and learned by participating in events such as the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center’s international ROV competition pro- gram, which annually challenges thousands of young inventors to create ROVs (Remotely Operated Vehicles) to grapple with a series of “real life” underwater scenarios.

But students and teachers wanted more. Building on this groundswell of enthusiasm for its ROV competitions,

MATE set out to write a comprehensive textbook that would provide more advanced information, answers, and ideas for teachers as well as both beginning and interme- diate students or do-it-yourself inventors. The result is

Underwater Robotics: Science, Design & Fabrication, by

Steve Moore, Harry Bohm, and Vickie Jensen and pub- lished by the MATE Center.

The MATE Center is one of more than 30 Advanced

Technological Education Centers established with fund- ing from the National Science Foundation.

Headquartered at Monterey Peninsula College, in

Monterey, California, MATE is a national partnership of community colleges, research institutions, professional societies, government organizations, and marine indus-

Preparing the Next Generation

Underwater Robotics

Science, Design & Fabrication 16 MTR November/December 2010