During my senior year of high school, I participated in an Office of Naval Research sponsored competition called SeaPerch. SeaPerch pits teams of students against each other to create a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) and complete a series of underwater challenges. Every day for the majority of my senior year, I would go from school to work and then home, where I spent every moment of my free time working on my team’s ROV. Countless hours were spent devising new ideas, testing them, and watching them sink uselessly to the bottom of my testing tank. On competition day, however, our team excelled, scoring third out of over 50 teams. Looking back on my feeling of triumph, I completely sympathize with the words of Thomas Edison, “I have not failed.
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Ever since I was a child, electricity was magic; I would spend countless hours trying to discover how it worked. Electromagnetism is now the focus of this childlike obsession, as it is as equally fascinating to me as the outlets were to the person of my youth. The Office of Naval Research has a department dedicated to electromagnetics research called Code 35, Naval Air Warfare and Weapons. The specific area within the department I would like to pursue is the electromagnetic railgun development. Currently the Navy is working to create a 32 Mega-joule railgun that can fire at least 10 rounds of ammunition per minute. While the proof of concept has been achieved, the firing rate is still a work in progress. Due to sustained Joule heating from current flow, the rails are at constant risk of deformation. Solving this issue would save millions of dollars in ammunition and would make ships much …show more content…
I think trying to perfect the wave generator used within the CHAMP would be an ideal area of study for me that incorporates my electrical engineering education with my physics background. This would be a stepping-stone to future technologies. For example, a small hand held HPM weapon would allow soldiers to eliminate visible or nearby enemy electronics without need for aerial support. Code 35 also has a directed energy division that interests me, the Applied Electromagnetics
Ever since I was a child, electricity was magic; I would spend countless hours trying to discover how it worked. Electromagnetism is now the focus of this childlike obsession, as it is as equally fascinating to me as the outlets were to the person of my youth. The Office of Naval Research has a department dedicated to electromagnetics research called Code 35, Naval Air Warfare and Weapons. The specific area within the department I would like to pursue is the electromagnetic railgun development. Currently the Navy is working to create a 32 Mega-joule railgun that can fire at least 10 rounds of ammunition per minute. While the proof of concept has been achieved, the firing rate is still a work in progress. Due to sustained Joule heating from current flow, the rails are at constant risk of deformation. Solving this issue would save millions of dollars in ammunition and would make ships much …show more content…
I think trying to perfect the wave generator used within the CHAMP would be an ideal area of study for me that incorporates my electrical engineering education with my physics background. This would be a stepping-stone to future technologies. For example, a small hand held HPM weapon would allow soldiers to eliminate visible or nearby enemy electronics without need for aerial support. Code 35 also has a directed energy division that interests me, the Applied Electromagnetics