
Dr. Shyam Madhusudhana, OES Student Poster Competition Chair Photo credits: Jhon Bermudez and Stan Chamberlain Col. Normal Miller envisioned and created the Student Poster Competition…

A Blast from the Past! . . . Student Poster Competitions
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief and Photographer Stan Chamberlain A major effort in OES is to ensure that we have an excellent Student Poster Competition…

The Student Poster Competition at OCEANS 2022 Chennai
Dr. A Malarkodi, SPC Chair OCEANS 2022 Chennai, Dr. Shyam Madhusudhana, OES Student Poster Competition Chair The Student Poster Competition (SPC) is a flagship event…

University of Victoria Submarine Racing Club
Josh Fernandes (OES student member), and team members The members of the University of Victoria submarine racing club (UVSRC) are a diverse bunch, ranging from…

Underwater Robot Competition @ Techno-Ocean2021
Co-chairs: Masakazu Arima (Osaka Prefecture University) and Kazuo Ishii (Kyushu Institute of Technology) Introduction The Underwater Robot Competition was held at Kobe Port Island Sports…

Breaking the Surface 2021 – Overview of field trial experiments
Nadir Kapetanović, Anja Babić, Ivan Lončar, Igor Kvasić, Vladimir Slošić, Barbara Arbanas Members of the IEEE OES University of Zagreb SBC organized a significant number…

The Student Poster Competition at OCEANS 2021
Shyam Madhusudhana, OES Student Poster Competition Chair On-site photographs by Stan Chamberlain A flagship event of the MTS/OES OCEANS conferences is the Student Poster Competition…

Breaking the Surface 2021
Nadir Kapetanović, Anja Babić, Ivan Lončar, Igor Kvasić, Barbara Arbanas, Matej Fabijanić, Jura Vuković, Maja Magdalenić, Goran Borković OCEANS 2021 activities In the week leading…

ARIEL, the AUV Won First Place in Underwater Robot Convention in JAMSTEC 2021!
Kazushi Yamamoto, Sehwa Chun, Yuki Sekimori, Chihaya Kawamra Introduction On August 28 and 29, students and enthusiasts gathered online to take part in the Underwater…

Report on SCHOOL Level Short Video Competition
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi ( IITD) OES Student Branch Chapter The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused a lot of damage and has affected the…

Strathclyde SBC Talks at NAOME – Amazon Web Services
Jake Walker & Iliya Valchev The IEEE OES Strathclyde SBC (Student Branch Chapter) was delighted to invite Michele Sancricca – Head of WW Technology…

IEEE OES UNIZG SBC Activities
Nadir Kapetanović, Igor Kvasić, Anja Babić, Ivan Lončar Despite the challenging time that we’re faced with, IEEE OES University of Zagreb Student Branch Chapter (UNIZG…

Underwater Robot Convention in JAMSTEC 2020 – All hands on deck! Online!!
Yuki Sekimori (The University of Tokyo) and Toshihiro Maki (Beacon Associate Editor, The University of Tokyo) 1. Introduction The Underwater Robot Convention in JAMSTEC 2020…

IEEE OES UNIZG SBC Activities
Nadir Kapetanović, Igor Kvasić, Kristijan Krčmar, Anja Babić After the success of student-organized lectures and hands-on tutorials during the International Interdisciplinary Field Workshop of Maritime…

IEEE OES SBC NAOME Poster Competition
Roberto Ravenna (IEEE OES SBC Vice president), Marvin Wright (IEEE OES SBC Webmaster), Olena Karpenko (IEEE OES SBC Chair), Andrea Coraddu (IEEE OES SBC Advisor)…

Breaking the Surface in 2020
Anja Babić, Nadir Kapetanović, Igor Kvasić The IEEE OES University of Zagreb Student Branch Chapter (UNIZG SBC) was one of the co-organisers of this year’s…

RoboSub Competition – OES Can Really Pick’em
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief At the 2019 RoboSub competition, OES gave the society’s Innovation Award to Team Inspiration, which was the only high school…

Open Ocean Robotics ASV Winch: University of Victoria Student Capstone Project
Ryan Foxall, University of Victoria Open Ocean Robotics is a Victoria based start-up that designs, builds, and operates autonomous surface vessels (ASV) for scientific data…

Research and Education Activities under the Coronavirus Pandemic
Takumi Matsuda, Meiji University, IEEE OES Japan Chapter, BEACON Associate Editor Introduction I have been studying the navigation methods of the multiple autonomous underwater vehicles…

Oceanic Engineering Society IIT Delhi, India
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) – OES STUDENT CHAPTER The Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE) established in 1971 has been engaged in…

Student Poster Competition going Virtual
Shyam Madhusudhana, OES Student Poster Competition Chair A flagship event at every MTS/IEEE OCEANS conference is the Student Poster Competition (SPC) in which student researchers…

New Phyto-Finders Tackle Improvements for Better Phytoplankton Sampling
Lexi M. Foster, Phyto-Finder, First Flight High School, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina USA First Flight High School (FFHS), located on the barrier islands of…

Finding Connectedness through the OES
Jeff Dusek, Student Activities Chair When I learned I had the opportunity to serve as the Oceanic Engineering Society Student Activities Chair in early February,…

Trajectory of the Team Clairvoyance
Kenichi Fujita, Yuya Hamamatsu and Hiroya Yatagai (The University of Tokyo) The “Team Clairvoyance”, the student team from the University of Tokyo for underwater robot…

Student Committee Activities IEEE OES – Escuela Superior Politecnica Del Litoral
Aguirre –Rojas Karen Elizabeth, ESPOL-Ecuador Chapter Chair This month (18/12/2019), we had the pleasure of welcoming 8 new members of IEEE OES, all of them…