Wednesday, October 19th

George R. Brown Convention Center

COURSE #1 – “Systems Engineering in Ship Design”
Room 305F
9:00am – 5:00pm

Instructor: William A. Hockberger

Course Description: This course will show how the approach and methods of systems engineering are overlaid on the basic engineering, analysis and management processes traditionally employed in ship design, making them more complete and improving their coordination and integration. The generic nature of systems engineering and its overall similarity as applied to all ship designs, whether naval or commercial, will be shown.

Systems engineering is not an engineering discipline in the same sense as mechanical or civil or electrical engineering. It is more about how engineering should be done rather than what is done. Moreover, it involves determining the objectives and requirements of an engineering project, at the beginning, and assessing results both during the process and at the end, when the best of several ways of accomplishing something must be determined and a selection must be made. It emphasizes attention to the total system—including the larger system outside the one being designed—and to the total life cycle consequences of decisions, including the economics.

Our overall objective should be to achieve the optimal balance between ship capability and the cost of obtaining it. That means the highest possible cost-effectiveness, if military, or the greatest profitability, if commercial. The degree to which this can actually be achieved depends on the way the design process is carried out, and systems engineering provides the framework for making that process as good as it can be.

Mr. Hockberger is a naval architect and systems engineer

The course is equivalent to 0.7 Continuing Education Units.

COURSE #2 – “Early Stage Ship Design”
Room 305E
9:00am – 5:00pm

Instructors: Mr. Peter Flemming and Mr. Benedict Capuco

Course Description: This one-day course is an overview of the early stage ship design process, encompassing feasibility studies and preliminary design. The lecturers are Peter Flemming and Benedict Capuco, naval architects with broad experience in all aspects of ship design. The course emphasizes how a ship design is developed, starting with a vague statement of owner’s requirements, proceeding through the development and refinement of the requirements by means of ship feasibility studies and, finally, to the development of a fully integrated preliminary design which satisfies all requirements. Topics addressed include: an overview of the ship design process; the traditional manual method of performing a feasibility study; ship synthesis models; hull, machinery, combat systems, and systems engineering trade-off studies during preliminary design; design integration; and notes on the design of unique ship types, including high-performance ships.

Mr. Flemming is Vice President, Operations Manager for Naval Architecture, JJMA Maritime & Industrial Engineering Group, Alion Science and Technology

Mr. Capuco is Vice President, LCS Program, LCS Program Manager for G&C
Lockheed Martin LCS Team, Gibbs & Cox, Inc

The course is equivalent to 0.7 Continuing Education Units

COURSE #3 – Introduction to the Design of Floating Offshore Oil & Gas Facilities
Room 305D
9:00am – 5:00pm

Instructor: Dr. Robert E. Randall

Course Description: Floating offshore oil and gas production, storage, and offloading facilities continue to serve the offshore industry and provide energy around the world. The purpose of this continuing education short course is provide naval architects, marine and ocean engineers, and other interested conference participants an introduction to the design practices for the development of floating offshore oil and gas production facilities. The topics covered include a brief history of offshore production facilities, general design process, regulatory and class societies, environmental data and extreme meteorological events (hurricane, cyclone) that control the design, evaluation of environmental loads, hull types (semi submersibles, tension leg platforms, spars, and ship shapes) and arrangements, weight distribution and stability, and mooring systems. Example calculations for the design of a selected floating offshore production facility will be conducted to demonstrate the design concepts presented. All participants will be provided instructor’s presentation slides and receive a certificate of completion.

Dr. Randall is Professor Ocean Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

The course is equivalent to 0.7 Continuing Education Units.