SNAME / MTS Joint Meeting & Student Design Projects

SENIOR DESIGN PRESENTATIONS AND OCEAN ENGINEERING INDUSTRY PROJECTS

SNAME TEXAS SECTION, MTS HOUSTON SECTION

TAMU MTS/SNAME STUDENT SECTION

Friday, March 31, 2017

Garden Room (room 1130), Student Recreation Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Time	Topic	Speaker
9:00-9:30	Registration (Student Recreation Center, Garden Room)	-
9:30-9:50	Remotely Operated Crawler for Beach Profiling	Ocean Engineering Students
9:50-10:10	Materials Offloading Facility for Western Australia	Ocean Engineering Students
10:10-10:25	Break	-
10:25-10:45	Three-Column Production Semi-submersible for the Gulf of Mexico	Ocean Engineering Students
10:45-11:05	Stress Monitoring of a Drilling Riser Elevation Joint	Ocean Engineering Students
11:05-11:35	Risers & Flowlines	Partha Sharma, DNV GL
11:35-12:20	BBQ Buffet Lunch (Garden Room)	-
12:20-1:00	SNAME & MTS Business Announcements, MTS Outstanding Ocean Engineering Student Award, SNAME Academic Excellence Award, Omega Epsilon Honor Society Induction	-
1:00-1:30	Status of Numerical Wave Basin with Emphasis on HPC	Jim O'Sullivan, TechnipFMC
1:30-2:00	Current Trends in Deepwater Anchoring	Evan Zimmerman, Vryhof
2:00-2:15	Break	-
2:15-2:45	Developments in the Production of Deepwater HP/HT Reservoirs	Chuck White, Frontier Deepwater
2:45-3:15	Recent Research into Floater Vortex-Induced Motions	Arun Anthony, Houston Offshore Engineering
3:15	Adjourn	-

Registration

Type	Register by	Member (SNAME or MTS)	Non-member	Student
Regular	March 24	$40	$50	$20
Late	March 27	$50	$60	$25

Please register on line at http://www.snamesymposium.com/sname-mts-meeting/

TAMU faculty and students should register in the Ocean Engineering Office or by phone 979-845-4515 or email to lpollock@ocen.tamu.edu by 5 pm, Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Late registration will be inside the Garden Room at the Student Recreation Center on Friday, March 31, 2017.

Parking Instructions: The cost of parking is not included in the registration fee. Visitor parking is available in the West Side Parking Garage (WSG), 100g beside Reed Arena, and 100j beside Olsen Field. Park vehicle in numbered visitor space and go to pay station. Pay by cash or credit card, print out the receipt and place it on the dashboard. Parking from 9 am to 4 pm should cost $11. A visitor parking map is available from the website: http://transport.tamu.edu/parking/visitor.aspx. Enter the front or rear entrance to the Student Recreation Center (SREC) and follow signs or ask directions to the Garden Room on the first floor.

Driving Instructions: Texas Business 6 to George Bush Drive West, Turn Left on George Bush West, take George Bush West across Wellborn Rd and railroad tracks, Turn right on Olsen Blvd, Park in WCG or other visitor parking (blue lots), enter Student Rec Center (SREC) front or rear (by Olsen Baseball Field), ask for location of Garden Room.