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FACES IN THE CROWD Future Leaders

Maritime Logistic Professional’s now popular feature involves highlighting the pro? les of today’s future mari- time professionals. Taken from maritime academies and schools focused on maritime disciplines, these cadets from around the country – some International – represent a large subset of the future professionals who will one day provide the leadership, innovation and technical expertise for the greater waterfront – here and abroad. Working with those schools and students that chose to participate, these pro? les will let readers and employers know who is coming up; it lets the students themselves shine a bit and gives the academies a chance to showcase their best and brightest. The pro? les center around ? ve questions for each student – we call it “? ve questions in ? ve minutes.”

This edition’s selections are all impressive, but this month, we begin with Alexander Dzinbal from the Webb

Institute, who is majoring in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. Three more pro? les round out this solid quartet, taken from four different maritime campuses around the country.

Alexander Dzinbal

Webb Institute

Major: Naval Architecture and Marine

Engineering

Graduation Year: 2017

Why this school? engineering degrees would be nearly impossible without the

I grew up sailing in the Paci? c Northwest, and fell in love innately collaborative nature of the class and the school as a with boats and the water at a young age. I’ve always enjoyed whole. Because we all take classes together, we all work on math and science, the idea of creating something new, and the same projects and homework at roughly the same time, engineering, fascinated me. My mother actually found Webb and we all help each when we need it. Everyone is natural-

Institute my freshman year of high school after I told her I ly inclined towards different subjects and disciplines and by wanted to design boats. I visited a few other schools with working together the entire class bene? ts. Making it through a competing Naval Architecture/Marine Engineering programs semester is always a team effort. You hear about other presti- and was really impressed with everything Webb had to offer. gious engineering colleges and the inter-student relationships seem almost hostile. They’re constantly competing with ev-

What keeps you here? eryone else in the program for the best classes, the best op-

The extremely supportive and non-competitive atmosphere portunities, and the best rankings. That simply doesn’t occur of Webb is incredible. Double majoring in two very intense at Webb. There’s a joke we lifted from medical school – “do 20 Maritime Logistics Professional 3Q 2016| | 18-33 Q3 MP2016.indd 20 8/17/2016 11:30:39 AM