Welcome to the BC Engineering Club!

Monday, 19 March 2012 00:00 Mark A. Taff

A collage of engineers at work. Thanks for stopping by! Our Spring Quarter 2012 regular meetings are Thursdays, 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Engineering classroom, B113. Anyone interested in engineering is welcome (and encouraged) to come to any regular meeting!

Club information is also posted on the bulletin board in the rear of the engineering classroom, B113. For directions to the B-building, see the campus map.

Current projects include building the ROBERT Sub and the Quick 'N Dirty Boat-Building Contest.

If would like to participate, you can create a website login account and come to one of our regular meetings.

If you would like to participate, but scheduling conflicts prevent you from attending a regular meeting, send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and inform her of your situation, and ask to be added to the discussion email list. There will be opportunities to participate even if you can't make it to the regular meetings. Additionally, by being on the discussion list, you ensure that you can participate in choosing future meeting times!

Last Updated ( Monday, 02 April 2012 13:59 )

RobertsUI Programming Update - March 2012

Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:09 Mark A. Taff

Winter Quarter 2012 is finished, so now is a good time for an update on the programming progress we have made in the 2.5 months since SAMI notified us that we won the grant to build ROBERT Sub.

RobertsUI is the submarine controller's user interface program. The program is responsible for accepting commands from a human controller, processing the commands and then sending the commands to the sub, and also for receiving, processing, and displaying data from the sub, including videos and sensor data.

As of March 22, 2012, we have written 5,165 Source Lines Of Code (SLOC), which the SLOCCount program estimates to be about 13 person-months of effort and a cost to develop of $157,150.00 USD.

We have currently implemented an IDEAl interface, a configuration editor, an About dialog, a web browser, and an pre-alpha version of a navigation widget that overlays controls on top of the navigation video.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 22 March 2012 19:05 )