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Nick Goumas, Research & Development Engineer and Gideon Billings, Robotics Ph.D. Student with the DROP Lab (droplab.engin.umich.edu) test out underwater robot on the Great Lakes.

Underwater 3D Mapping: Swim with the robots

With a customized Iver 3 underwater drone, the Deep Robotic Optical Perception (DROP) Lab have a new set of underwater eyes that provide a window into the health of the world's lakes and oceans.

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Historic Marine Hydrodynamics Lab gets makeover and new name

The 112-year-old “tow tank” in West Hall recently got a fresh face and a new name through a renovation project ending this month.

Students Win Ship Design Competition

Claiming 1st place prize four times in the past seven years in the Dr. James A. Lisnyk Student Ship Design Competition, UM students prove they are the ones to beat.

Ship Shape

The bulbous bow, the punched card, and a new direction in ship design that shook the world.

Set-Based Design

Professors Matthew Collette and David Singer work with the Navy to usher in a modern approach to shipbuilding.

Portrait of Jing Sun, NAME department chair. Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering.

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Students in NAME 403 learned how to sail and operate components of Areté, a vessel that competes annually in a series of races across the world, on the Detroit River on October 4, 2016.

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High school students from Clinton HS test their underwater vehicles at the Marine Hydrodynamic Laboratory at the University of Michigan. Students developed their underwater robots for competitions.

Tow Tank Live Feed

Watch testing in the Tow Tank 24/7 with our new live feed cameras.

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2017 Peachman Lecture: Future ship, offshore and nautical research Since 2011, Dr. Bas Buchner has been the president of MARIN (Maritime Research Institute Netherlands), the largest independent maritime research institute in the world.

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