LEXINGTON, Va., April 14 -- Virginia Military Institute issued the following news release:
LEXINGTON, Va. April 14, 2026 -Connor Bott '26, a mechanical engineering major at Virginia Military Institute, has designed a modern adaptation for an ancient devise with his honors senior thesis project, "Design and Analysis of an Electromechanical Marine Wreck Anchor."
From the Eastern Shore town of Exmore, Virginia, Bott's hobbies include fishing, boating, and scuba diving. Through these interests, he observed that small boat anchors, crucial for positioning the boat as well as for safety, often get stuck and have to be cut loose and abandoned, which inspired him to research better anchor designs.
He began his presentation with explaining how an...