S&B Infrastructure Ltd.’s New Orleans based naval architecture and marine engineering consultancy TAI Engineers LLC (TAI) has appointed Amer Kalla director of production design. Based in Houston, Kalla will leverage his extensive experience to develop and evolve TAI’s production design capabilities for the maritime sector.
Prior to joining TAI, Kalla was a senior engineering program manager at Tesla, where he led the full design and engineering of the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, from...
The Shearer Group Inc. (TSGI) reports that the latest addition to its naval architecture, marine engineering, and marine surveying team is Mitchell Levi.
Levi, who has joined TSGI as a naval architect, holds a master of science and a bachelor of science in engineering in naval architecture and marine engineering from the University of Michigan. For his undergraduate research, he examined the highly coupled relationships between propulsion loads and cooling system
While studying at the University...
https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/inland/mitchell-levi-joins-the-shearer-group/
Future ship designs are expected to be influenced by this work as reported by UpStream.
Feasibility studyUsing an LH2 storage tank design, US contractor McDermott’s storage business line CB&I and South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering want to conduct a feasibility study for a big liquid hydrogen (LH2) carrier.
Daewoo will look into and develop the general design of the vessel to install the LH2 storage tank while CB&I will assess its LH2 storage tank design for ocean-going ships.
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The largest independent naval architecture and marine engineering firm in the U.S., Arlington, Va., headquartered Gibbs & Cox Inc., has been awarded a $29.5 million contract that could be worth almost $319 million if all options are exercised.
Awarded by the Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., the contract is for supporting surface combatant ship design and engineering efforts for the Navy’s Future Surface Combatant Force, primarily in support of the DDG(X) program, as well as other...
Bristol Harbor Group Inc. (BHGI), Bristol, R.I., recently announced that Tommy Linden is the company’s most recent addition to its naval architecture and marine engineering practice. Linden has joined BHGI as a naval architect. He graduated from the Webb Institute in Glen Cove, N.Y. with a B.S. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
During his time at Webb, he interned at BHGI, the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, Eagle Bulk, Newport News Shipbuilding, and General Dynamics...
The most common perception people have when introduced to the field of ocean engineering is that it deals with ships, floating bodies or the ocean. While this is not wrong in its entirety, it is easy to mistake ocean engineering with several other fields such as naval architecture, naval engineering, marine engineering and other maritime courses. In reality, ocean engineering is an exclusive area of study that is exclusive in its own right.
These varied courses have different aspects about them...
Despite the recent growth and attention on the marine industry in Nova Scotia, a new Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship (COVE) examination, the Student Intentions and Perceptions Study, found that only 12% of grade 6-12 English, French, and Mi’kmaq Kina’matneway students in Nova Scotia are interested in career opportunities in the marine industry.
Led by Dr. Sherry Scully, director of Learning & Organizational Development at COVE, the voluntary study measures students’ attitudes and...
Webb Institute, Glen Cove, N.Y., announced that students Taylor Campbell and Reneé Tremblay are recepients of the Crowley Maritime Corporation’s Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial Scholarship for the 2018-2019 academic year.
Campbell, of the class of 2019 and Altoona, Pa., and Tremblay, of the class of 2020 and hailing from Bristol, R.I., were chosen by the Webb scholarship selection committee “for their hard work, academic excellence, volunteer efforts, and superb leadership skills that they...
https://www.workboat.com/news/people-and-products/webb-institute-awards-crowley-scholarships/