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Marine Design Meeting

Set for May

The Ninth International Marine

Design Conference (IMCD) is to pro- mote all aspects of marine design as an engineering discipline with particular emphasis on issues of synthesis.

The four focus areas of the IMDC are

Naval Ship Design, Commercial Ship

Design, Offshore Design, and Inland and Great Lakes Design.

IMDC 2006 will be held at the

University of Michigan from May 16 to 19, 2006, with the presentation of 50 technical papers, six state-of-the-art reports, an invited opening lecture enti- tled "The Fascination of Ship Design,” and two luncheon speakers from U.S. naval ship design and the offshore design fields.

Complete details of the conference can be obtained from the web site www.umich.edu/~imdc06 2006 Ship Production

Symposium Call for

Papers

Submissions for the Ship Production

Symposium will be accepted in one of two categories: 1. Published paper with a presentation at the conference. 2. Presentation (PowerPoint) at the conference (no paper prepared for publi- cation).

The goal for the SPS sessions is 2/3 published papers with presentations, and 1/3 presentations only. The SNAME

Ship Production Committee, composed of the NSRP Ship Production Panel

Chairs, will make the determination as to which submissions will be accepted.

While any topics related to ship produc- tion will be considered, this year's theme is Design/Build and What's In Between!

Papers relevant to this theme might include, but are not limited to, the fol- lowing: 3D Modeling - Ship Design

Operations (i.e. sortie rates, shipboard firefighting, stores load-out) 3D Modeling - Life Cycle Issues (assembly/disassembly/removal/re- install) Design for Production Guidelines - producibility in shipbuilding Integrated Master Planning and the

Role of Simulation Pre-production Planning based on

Common Constraints - space, time, and labor Facility Capacity Issues and

Potential Solutions Managing Contract Execution and

Cost Effective Change Management - from Contract Award through Delivery Environmental, Safety, and Health

Issues and their Impact on New Design Modern Design Standards in Naval

Ship Classes - HME (Hull, Mechanical,

Electrical)

Important Dates April 20, 2006 Abstracts due May 5, 2006 Authors notified June 23, 2006 Rough Draft due for review and comment July 21, 2006 Final comments passed onto authors August 8, 2006 Final electronic submissions due for publication

Rough Draft papers may be submitted on or before April 20th and are encour- aged. For details on submitting papers and PowerPoint presentations, visity www.sname.org/author_instructions.ht m. All abstracts, papers and presenta- tions should be submitted to Dolly Pelto at [email protected].

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