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Engineers Society

Honors John R. Kane

John R. Kane, vice president for engineering at Newport News

Shipbuilding, has been named En- gineer of the Year by the Penin- sula Chapter, Virginia Society of

Professional Engineers.

Mr. Kane received the award, given each year in recognition of outstanding service to the profes- sion, during a National Engineers

Week dinner, February 23. The

Peninsula Chapter, VSPE, is a prestigious group of 13 organiza- tions representing all engineering disciplines on the Peninsula. Dur- ing the special week, engineers throughout the nation met to dis- cuss the theme "Engineering—A

Better Environment Through

Technology."

As the top engineer at Newport

News Shipbuilding, Mr. Kane is responsible for the activities of more than 2,600 engineering and design personnel at the Tenneco subsidiary. The award is in ob- servance of Mr. Kane's engineering accomplishments during his career which, according to the Society, "are inseparably bound with the engineering advances made by his company and reflected by its en- gineering reputation."

The shipyard vice president pio- neered efforts in the first major application of high pressureJhigh temperature steam systems and boilers for ship propulsion. He was instrumental in design devel- opment and testing of nuclear pow- er plants for submarines and air- craft carriers and was responsible for engineering work on machin- ery systems for cargo vessels and tankers.

During his career at Newport

News Shipbuilding, Mr. Kane's ef- forts and direction have led to the extensive use of computers in en- gineering calculations and design, providing a capability for analysis of indeterminate structure, system routing, and the semi-automation of material control.

A life member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine

Engineers, Mr. Kane last year was awarded that Society's highly

The New York Metropolitan

Section of The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers met on February 15 at the Sea- men's Church Institute, New York,

N.Y.

After a social hour and dinner, a paper was presented entitled "A

System for Reduction of Tanker

Cleaning Hazards and Pollution

Abatement," by M.M. Brauer,

Texas Instruments, Inc.

The subject paper describes a systematic human-factored combi- nation of equipment, facilities, per- sonnel and procedures that, the au- thor states, obviates the existing esteemed David W. Taylor Medal for his "notable achievements in marine engineering."

John R. Kane

Mr. Kane began his employment with the shipyard in 1936 as a draftsman and, in 1951, was ap- pointed engineer of the engineer- ing technical department. Four years later, he was named assist- ant chief engineer of the machin- ery design division and was pro- moted to chief engineer of that division in 1957. He was appointed director of engineering in 1966 and was elected a vice president of the company in December 1972.

He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from the

University of Michigan and his master's degree from the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology. technique in favor of a cost, time, and safety-effective approach; per- sonnel are used where they per- form best, and machines are like- wise allocated to the tasks that they do best. The proposed system is based upon the use of freon as the cleaning agent, in a continu- ous-stream closed-loop in-port ac- tivity. The proposed system, it is claimed, greatly reduces the hu- man hazard from toxicity, explo- sion, fire, and asphyxiation. A brief trade-off analysis is included to compare the existing technique with the proposed system.

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SNAME New York Section Discusses

Reduction Of Tanker Cleaning Hazards

Shown at the New York Metropolitan Section meeting, left to right: Donald B. Car- penter, Section vice chairman; Charles W. Wilson, chairman; M.M. Brauer, author,

Texas Instruments, Inc.; I. Hilary Rolih, chairman, papers committee; Nicola F.

Pergola, executive committee, and Robert G. Mende, national secretary, SNAME. 16 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News