Our MATE ROV competition team
2024 MATE ROV Pioneer Class World Champions, Grover Award winners, and Oceaneering ROV Co-Pilot Award recipients. Now competing in the 2026 Explorer Class season.
No experience required — just bring your curiosity and willingness to learn.
Engineering Renaissance is a student-run engineering club at Clovis Community College, dedicated to promoting excellence in STEM and higher education. Our mission is to further STEM in the Central Valley and showcase Clovis Community College internationally. With our collaborative efforts, we continue to show that Crush has depth.
Our club brings together diverse disciplines — mechanical, electrical, software, and business — into one cohesive unit. Through competitions like MATE ROV, hands-on projects, and community outreach, members gain real-world experience with engineering concepts, CAD software, programming, and technical skills that prepare them for careers and transfer to four-year universities.
A diverse team of engineers, programmers, designers, and business professionals working together to build championship-level underwater robotics.
Meet the leadership team driving Engineering Renaissance forward
No experience required — just bring your enthusiasm and willingness to learn!
Engineering isn't learned in a lecture hall — it's learned by building. Our project pipeline takes members from their first breadboard to competition-ready systems, with real deliverables at every stage.
The starting line for every new member. These initial group projects are designed to put a foot in the door of the world of actual engineering — no prior experience needed. You'll work alongside teammates on real hardware and real software from day one, building foundational skills that carry through every project after.
Members get introduced to embedded systems using Arduino and ESP32 microcontrollers — learning how to read sensors, drive motors, and write firmware that interacts with the physical world. On the design side, hands-on 3D modeling work with Onshape and SolidWorks teaches you to think spatially, design for manufacturing, and iterate fast.
Following up the intro group projects with a more technically intensive prompt — Halloween edition. These projects ramp up the complexity while keeping the energy high, giving members more exposure and hands-on opportunity with a fun, seasonal twist.
Think animatronics, sensor-triggered scare machines, LED-driven displays, sound-reactive installations — all built from scratch using the skills picked up in intro projects. It's the bridge between learning and ownership, where members start making real engineering decisions on their own.
Our project pipeline keeps growing. From competition vehicles to interdisciplinary collaborations, there's always something new being built. Check back or join the club to get in on the next one.
From deep-sea exploration to marine archaeology, our ROV is engineered to tackle the most demanding underwater missions.
Stay tuned for our 2026 competition technical details
Built for speed, agility, and precise maneuvering. Our custom thruster configuration provides 6 degrees of freedom, allowing complex underwater operations with unmatched control.
Tested to withstand high-pressure environments and extreme conditions. Every component is carefully selected and stress-tested to ensure mission-critical reliability.
We believe engineering should reach beyond the lab. Through interdisciplinary collaborations and community partnerships, we're bringing hands-on STEM to the Central Valley — and building things that matter.
An interdisciplinary project where biology and engineering majors collaborate to design and build a robotic prosthetic hand controlled by EEG brain signals — created for amputees in need. This partnership between Engineering Renaissance, the MEDLIFE Club, and MESA represents exactly what happens when disciplines converge on a problem that matters.
Engineering students handle the embedded systems, signal processing, and mechanical design. Biology and pre-med students from MEDLIFE bring the neuroscience and human factors expertise. MESA provides the framework for underrepresented students to participate in cutting-edge research.
Beyond competitions, we're committed to growing the engineering community in Fresno and the surrounding region — through education, demonstration, and direct collaboration with local organizations.
Your support helps us push the boundaries of underwater robotics and provides valuable hands-on engineering experience to students at Clovis Community College.
Thank you to our amazing partners who make our mission possible
Help us compete at the highest level and inspire the next generation of engineers.