Students from Harvey Mudd College and Cal Poly are heading to Malta with faculty members to deploy underwater robots with the purpose of mapping coastal shipwrecks and developing new technology for marine archeology. Being located in the Mediterranean Sea between continental Europe and northern Africa, the island nation of Malta and its coastal waters are home to a large number of historical wrecks. Organized through a joint International Computer Engineering Experience (ICEX), the students will collaborate with Dr. Timmy Gambin, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Malta and faculty members from Cal Poly and Harvey Mudd College in addition to further international partners. The project goals are to develop an Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) system for intelligent shipwreck search, mapping and visualization. The 2015 ICEX team includes: Katherine Davis (Senior, Computer Science, Cal Poly), Ian Dunn (Senior, Software Engineering, Cal Poly), and Apoorva Sharma (Junior, Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College) joined by Harvey Mudd College faculty member, Professor Christopher Clark of Engineering and Cal Poly faculty member, Associate Professor Zoë Wood of Computer Science.
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