CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES AT SNAME MARITIME CONVENTION
One of the most important functions of a professional technical society is to capture and make available useful knowledge to its members. This is done in many ways within SNAME:
- we organize the Annual SNAME Maritime Convention Technical Program
- we hold regular Section Meetings where topics of interest are presented and discussed;
- we sponsor and guide T&R projects and prepare and publish T&R Bulletins and a wide range of topics
- we prepare and publish a range of Textbooks, Journals, and our flagship Technical Magazine, (mt).
- we regularly prepare and host special Conferences, Seminars and Workshops on a range of topics such as
- Offshore Technology; Shipping Economics; Yachts and Powerboats; LNG as Marine Fuel; Ships and Structures in Ice; Green Shipping and Propellers and Shafting.
Further SNAME has maintained a continuing education program, primarily through delivering specific short courses at our Annual Meeting, (now the SMC).
We in SNAME are focusing our educational efforts on professional development and through-career learning, with an emphasis on changes in our profession where new techniques and technologies need to be understood by our members.
With that in mind we have prepared some new short courses which will be given at the SMC 2014, in Houston in late October. These courses will be one day events held on Wednesday October 22nd.
We will offer 3 new short courses and the return of one of our most popular short courses. For more details and sign-up information go to www.sname.org/smc.
NOTE: We do plan to offer these and other courses at other venues and are working on preparing online version for distance learning. We are also “experimenting” with partnering to deliver continuing education courses and as an example will be conducting a SNAME Short Course on Fueling Ferries with LNG, as part of the Marine Log annual Ferries Conference in Del Ray Beach FL., November 13/14
SMC Courses – October 22, 2014, Houston TX
New! – Course # 1 - Aluminum Vessel Structures
Instructors: Dr. Roger I. Basu and Dr. Robert "Bob" A. Sielski
Aluminum is an attractive material for the structure in weight-critical ship designs. While aluminum offers superior static strength-to-weight ratios compared with steel there are a number of challenges in using this material. The course discusses these challenges and provides a comprehensive introduction to the use of aluminum in ship structures covering the following topics: Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys, Extrusions, Corrosion, Fire, Loads, Design, Ultimate Strength of Structures and Fatigue and Fracture.
New! – Course # 3 - An Overview of the Design of Advanced Marine Vehicles
Instructor: Dr. Chris McKesson
The naval architect’s toolbox includes hull forms other than mono-hulls. For certain missions, catamarans, trimarans, SWATH and SES may be better choices. Yet naval architects may be hesitant to pursue such hull forms due to the absence of a "comfort level" with these options.
This short course introduces the design of these craft, providing a practicing naval architect with tools for understanding the niche that each one occupies – i.e. when this hull form might be the most appropriate for the mission – as well as an overview of the nuances of each one’s design. Thus the theme of course can be described as "What are the AMVs, what are they good for, and what is unique about designing them?"
New! – Course #4 - Global Analysis - An Introduction to MetOcean Data and Spectral Analysis
Instructors: Scott McClure, Jeffrey Reifsnyder, Khalid Soofi, and Chris Yetsko
In dealing with many offshore design and operation issues, naval architects and engineers are faced with a lack of site or route specific environmental information. The course will be in two parts, firstly an introduction to the development of met-ocean data and criteria and secondly on how to use such data in spectral analysis to obtain vessel motions.
The course is targeted at professionals already in the field who need to have a better understanding of how to obtain and interpret metocean data and on how to apply those data in engineering analysis, such as naval architects & ocean engineers involved in analysis with relevance to afloat motions, including crane & ROV operations, habitability, slamming, green water shipping, foundation design (stress and fatigue), and mooring system design/deployment.
Return of Popular Course! – Course #2 - Introduction to Offshore Engineering
Instructor: Professor Robert R. Randall
Floating offshore facilities continue to serve the offshore industry and provide energy around the world. The purpose of this continuing education short course is provide ocean engineers, naval architects, marine engineers, and other interested conference participants an introduction to the offshore engineering design practices for the development of floating offshore oil and gas facilities and associated systems. The topics covered include a brief history of offshore oil and gas facilities; general design process; regulatory and class societies; metocean data and extreme meteorological events (hurricane, typhoon); semi submersibles, tension leg platforms, spars, and ship shapes; vessel stability and dynamics; wind, current, and wave environmental forces; riser and mooring system analysis; and subsea systems and remotely operated vehicles. All participants will be provided instructor’s presentation slides and receive a certificate of completion. This course is targeted at engineers and naval architects at any stage of their careers who have interest in learning about the offshore sector.