SNAME Student News
Special Feature
of the
December 1, 2006 Issue of the
SNAMeNewsLetter
Apprentice School at Northrop Grumman Newport News - Many have heard of, but few have seen the “ghost” fleet on the James River, a much talked about piece of news over the last several years in the Hampton Roads area. Originally the fleet was formed to ensure that in case of a war, the United States would have an adequate amount of ships to provide supplies to our troops. Now, most of the ships in the fleet are unusable. Read more ...
L’Institut Maritime Du Quebec - The SNAME Student Section at L’Institut Maritime Du Quebec held an informal get together on November 21, 2006 to learn more about the section and programs offered. Thanks to M. Jacques Paquin for hosting the event. One of the items discussed was networking among the students, and a website has been established to allow members to share email, photos and interests: www.imq.qc.ca/sname/accueil.asp. The Naval Architecture Department is currently working on putting together a list of potential employers in Eastern Canada. This valuable resource will be a great tool!
Stevens
Institute of Technology - The SNAME Student Section at Stevens
Institute of Technology has been very busy the past semester. In August of 2006,
some of the students were able to find the time to take a trip into New York
City to visit the Seamen’s Church Institute, where they were lucky enough
to be one of the last groups to use the ship simulator that has been used to
train captains for many years. The group also had the chance to view well-crafted
ship models and nautical art.
Read more ...
U.S.
Coast Guard Academy - The SNAME Student section at the United
States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) recently signed up the 22 2/c (junior) cadets
who are in the NA&ME major. These new SNAME student members join the 14
1/c (senior) USCGA NA&ME students who are already student members. On Thursday,
15 November 2006, members of the USCGA student section attended a local New
England SNAME meeting in Seekonk, MA entitled "Design of a Coastal Research
Vessel with Low Raditated Noise Signature." Then, in early December, the
student section visited Rolls-Royce Naval Marine in Walpole, MA to tour and
observe manufacturing in their propeller blade center. A representative from
Wartsila is expected to be aboard the Academy, in the beginning of 2007, to
give a talk to the cadets on current diesel engine Technology and applications.
University of California at Berkeley - Graduate
Paper Honor Prize was awarded to Robert Seah from the University of California
at Berkeley, for his paper “Resonant Modes of Rectangular Twin Hulls”.
Shown in the attached picture is SNAME President, Roger Compton, presenting
the Graduate Student Paper Honor Prize to Robert Seah at the SNAME Annual Meeting
on October 12, 2006. The SNAME Executive Director, Phil Kimball, is shown in
the background. Robert’s paper examined properties of a type of a resonance
possible in semi-constrained regions of water found in such designs as a moonpool
in a drill vessel, multi-hulls, and multi-leg offshore platforms. Robert attended
the annual meeting as a Cal-SNAME representative along with two exchange students
from Norway, Arnt Fredriksen and Frederik Dukan. Read
more ...
Virginia
Tech - The SNAME Student Section at Virginia Tech has had a
busy and exciting fall semester. We have had presentations from companies in
the naval architecture/ocean engineering industry, taken a trip to Ft. Lauderdale,
FL for the SNAME Maritime Technology Conference & Expo and Ship Production
Symposium, and fronted our first SNAME intramural co-ed flag football team.
Read more ...