Note on Accreditation:
We are working to get these courses approved for continuing education credit for professional engineers.
Course 1: Ship Cost Estimating for Engineers
Instructor: Professor Thomas Lamb
8:00am - 5:00pm
This workshop will introduce Engineers to the total fabric of ship cost estimating including: Factors Influencing Ship Cost and Cost Growth, Cost Estimating & Industrial Analysis, Shipbuilding Cost Drivers, difference between Cost and Price, Learning Curve, Marine Cost Estimating, Parametric Cost Estimates, Detailed Cost Estimating, and Cost Risk Analysis. The objective is NOT to make engineers Cost Estimators but rather to enable them to understand how their decision impact Ship Cost. It will also provide them with parametric Cost Estimating spreadsheets that they can use in the future design decisions.There will be exercises so that by doing the material will be better retained and also will enable attendees to use the workshop for Continuing Education Credits.
Course 2: Early Phase Ship Design
Instructors: Sean Walsh and Ben Capuco
8:00am - 5:00pm
This course is an overview of the early stage ship-design process, encompassing feasibility studies and preliminary design to show how an integrated ship design is developed, starting with a statement of the owner's requirements, proceeding through the development and refinement of the requirements by means of ship feasibility studies and, finally, to the development a fully integrated preliminary design that satisfies all requirements. Topics addressed include preliminary performance studies, ship synthesis models; hull, machinery, combat systems, and systems engineering analyses, trade-off studies, design integration; and notes on the design of specific ship types, including high-performance ships. The course is of value to engineers new to the field in ship design or already working in the field but not familiar with the early-stage design process. It will also be a refresher course for those naval architects and marine engineers wishing to update their skills in early phase ship design. All participants will be provided with copies of the instructor's presentation slides as well as a certificate of completion. Opportunities will be available for discussion between learners and the lecturers.