The SDC and its many Panels continue to be active and productive. The last issue of TNT announced about our newest panel, SD-11 Safe Return to Port, chaired by Maggie Nate of Alion. A reminder that SD-11 has scheduled its kickoff meeting in conjunction with this year's WMTC/SNAME Annual Convention on Tuesday, November 3rd starting at 1:00pm EST at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island.
We are also pleased to announce a new chair of our SD-1 Weights Panel, David Hansch of Newport News Shipyard. And we express our sincere appreciation to our previous Chair, Bill Boze of Newport News Shipyard, for his years of outstanding leadership. SD-1 continues to be very active and collaborate with the Society of Allied Weight Engineers (SAWE) and to develop an Expanded Ship Work Breakdown System (ESWBS) to handle new systems like Integrated Power System (IPS).
Panel SD-3, chaired by Richard Sonnenschein, has been working on proposed Stability Guidance for Small Craft Designers and review of Stability-Related PNA draft Chapters. SD-3 continues to stay informed about work of the IMO Sub-Committee on Ship Design & Construction (SDC). others.
SD-5 Advanced Ships and Craft Panel, chaired by Bill Hockberger, has been focused recently on FAST 2015, which was held in Washington, DC on 1-4 September 2015, sponsored by SNAME. The FAST Conference is the biggest event of the advanced ship and craft community and is held every two years somewhere different around the world. For synopsis of click here (AAYA)
SD-4 Ship Arrangements Panel. TSDC Chair Bob Keane is seeking a chair for this panel. The objectives remain to conduct a series of workshops on ship arrangements design requirements and new computer-aided design tools.
SD-8 Naval Ships Panel T&R Bulletin. Tim Mierzwicki of NAVSEA, SD-8 Panel Chair and SDC Vice-Chair, submitted and published a new SNAME T & R Bulletin, “Guide for Conducting Technical Studies”, authored by Dr. Norbert Doerry of NAVSEA. The bulletin can be purchased here.
SD-10 Hull Form Design Panel. chaired by Jason Thomas at Gibbs & Cox is chair of this relatively new panel. Panel meetings focused on identifying Hull Form Design tools.
A Ship Design Certificate Program, is in the planning phase with SNAME headquarters. The program would include a number of videos of interviews of highly experienced ship design leaders and would emphasize the Principles of Good Product Development and how they were (or were not) applied to specific ship designs. Participants/students who would study the videos would receive CEU’s/PDH’s from SNAME, culminating at the completion of the Program with receipt of a Certificate from SNAME. The SDC is open to comments and suggestions.
Ship Design and Acquisition Lessons Learned Seminar Series. was a monthly event for over three years featuring experienced professionals whose careers in Ship Design and Acquisition totaled 100’s of years of experience. This series provided thought provoking ideas and shared with the Ship Design and Acquisition community the expertise and experience of our community’s veterans. The response to the seminars was outstanding. The group is now looking for a new host(s) or other means of disseminating the seminars to a wider audience.