This Senior Design project includes producing an unmanned electric boat. The purpose of the unmanned boat will be completing the 2-mile course at the Promoting Electric Propulsion Competition while carrying a payload of 60lbs. For this year’s team, it will be important to evaluate new propulsion systems and hull designs. To produce faster speeds, hydroplaning hulls will be used. To account for increased weight and suboptimal surface conditions battery capacity will be increased, and higher performing motors will be sourced. The cooling system will be designed to be as minimal as possible to reduce points of failure/leakage.

Our team collaborated with Electrical and Computer Engineering 13 on this project.