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  • Marathon Marine Engineering Company has named John S. Laird III as manager of engineering and has appointed David R.

    Lewis to the position of chief structural engineer.

    The announcement of these two appointments was made by Robert E. Bradbury Jr., president of Marine Engineering Company.

    Prior to his appointment as manager of engineering, Mr. Laird served as chief structural engineer for Marathon Marine Engineering Company. He is a graduate of the University of Houston and holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering. He is a Registered Professional Engineer (State of Texas).

    David R. Lewis joined Marathon Marine in 1979 as a structural engineer and served as assistant chief structural engineer from 1981 until his more recent appointment as chief structural engineer. He holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri- Rolla and a M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Houston.

  • Maritime Organizations (NAMO), Propeller Club International Governing Board, North American Marine Environment Protection Association (NAMEPA), the University of Houston, College of Technology Dean Advisory Board, and he has been recognized as Distinguished Alumni, University of Houston – College of Technology

  • Kury has been with the company since 1954, and has been actively engaged in the marine transportation industry for 22 years. He attended Texas A & M University, and is a business administration graduate of the University of Houston. Marmac Corporation is composed of the McDonough Marine Service Division

  • in Samson braided rope products for the utility, commercial fishing, and heavy marine and industrial markets. Mr. Williamson attended the University of Houston, Texas, where he majored in petroleumgeological engineering. A student of naval architecture, he has designed several large sailboats.

  • associated with Brown & Root, Inc., Houston, Texas, for more than 20 years. Mr. Remkes has a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Houston. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Petroleum Institute and the Marine Technical Society. C-E

  • Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y., where he was graduated in 1973. He also performed postgraduate studies in engineering at the University of Houston, and has been a lecturer/instructor in naval architecture at Texas A & M University Maritime Academy, Galveston, Texas, since 1975. IMODCO

  • be to supervise the firm's engineering design and analysis programs. Mr. Tubbs received his B.S. degree in industrial engineering from the University of Houston. The new vice president of engineering has had extensive experience in design and construction of marine equipment for the offshore oil

  • , and as sales manager of Denison Hydraulics, Japan, Ltd. He attended college preparatory and technical schools in Germany, and studied in the University of Houston College of Engineering. Robert L. Holmes has been promoted to manager-sales administration, and heads the division's newly formed

  • to senior vice president of project operations. Mr. Heffler formerly was senior vice president, engineering operations. A graduate of Rice University with a degree in civil engineering, Mr. Pieper has more than 20 years' experience with Brown & Root in design and construction engineering of

  • . He holds a B.S. degree in metallurgical engineering f r om the University of Texas at El Paso, and an MBA degree in finance from the University of Houston.

  • . Ruffner is a 1963 graduate of Hartwick College, Oneonta, N.Y., with a major in business administration. He has done graduate studies at Washington University, St. Louis, and the University of Houston. He is currently a member of the board, Calumet Traffic Club; vice president, Illinois River Carrier

  • paper titled "A New Approach To Computer-Based Preliminary Ship Design." The authors were Dr. Farrokh Mistree and Timothy D. Lyon, both of the University of Houston. The following paragraph is a brief abstract of their discussion. This paper presented a new computer-based method to carry out

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    Wabtec is huge, pervasive in power across in- the journey to your present position? dustries, but not broadly known globally in the I graduated from the University of Notre Dame with an maritime sector. Please give a ‘By the Numbers’ undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering and started with look at the company

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    Battery Pack with Liquid Cooling”; L.H. Sawa, A. A. O. Taya and L. Winston Zhang; The Department of Mechanical Engineering, National About the Author University of Singapore, Singapore Dr. David Sundin is Founder and 2. “Thermal Management of Lithium-Ion Battery Systems”, David Sundin, Ph.D. En- gineered

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    . supportive of new vehicles organically built in Japan. Fortunately, that sort of extreme accuracy really isn’t required Recently, we supported Cornell University with a specially to capture operationally useful temperature, salinity, and sound con? gured and calibrated sensor for remote study of a deep

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    the path toward commercialization. By Greg Trauthwein To start us off, can you give us a by the numbers look at in Ocean Engineering at Oregon State University, which is Mocean Energy today? where I ? rst started working on Wave Energy. Next I went to Mocean Energy has been operating since 2016, today

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    of Commerce, acting and Deputy Administrator of the ence degree from Shang- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and hai Ocean University in 2018. He proposed making thick wall Oceanographer of the Navy. He has a bachelor’s degree from glass spheres to Nautilus Marine Service/Vitrovex

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    Index page MR Dec24:MN INDEX PAGE 1/9/2024 4:37 PM Page 1 ANCHORS & CHAINS METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS Harvest Technology Group Limited, 7 Turner Avenue, Technology Park Bentley WA 6102, Australia , tel:61 Anchor Marine & Supply, INC., 6545 Lindbergh Houston, R.M. Young Company, 2801 Aero Park Dr.

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    most transformational periods in its history. Campe has had a long and varied career, a career with his Masters in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology as a foundation, and an entrepreneurial career built on research and develop- ment, including a stint working for famed Dutch astronaut

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    to build an autonomous underwater drone following a student research project at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich), a public university in Switzerland. Professional divers and the Tethys ROV Underwater drone from Tethys Robotics with the after an underwater inspection operation

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    Floor research project at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule During Tethys Robotics’ ? rst discussions with Nortek, the Zürich (ETH Zurich), a public university in Switzerland. DVL500 Compact had just been released. This is a 500 kHz Tethys Robotics’ goal was to build an autonomous under- DVL in a small

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    SEAFLOOR MAPPING All images courtesy Curtin University Digital 3D model of WA Shipwreck he underwater remains of a ship built in Fremantle in reconstruction,” Professor Woods said. 1876 and which sunk off the coast several years later can “The new 3D model of the Star allows the wreck site to be now be

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    NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation undersea infrastructure, naval mine warfare, maritime security (CMRE) in La Spezia, Italy, the University of Porto’s Labo- operations, force protection, underwater warfare, amphibious ratory for Underwater Systems and Technology (LSTS), and operations

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    of Commerce, acting and Deputy Administrator of the ence degree from Shang- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and hai Ocean University in 2018. He proposed making thick wall Oceanographer of the Navy. He has a bachelor’s degree from glass spheres to Nautilus Marine Service/Vitrovex

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    and Ecuador. Currently, she is Frank pursuing her master of environmental Skucas Washington, D.C., partner Kimberly studies degree at Dalhousie University. Ruta Skucas is a federal energy Frank co-leads the ? rm’s global Power regulatory and wholesale electricity practice group and focuses her electric

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    Index page MR Dec23:MN INDEX PAGE 12/6/2023 3:06 PM Page 1 ANCHORS & CHAINS Silicon Sensing Systems Ltd, Clittaford Road Southway, REMOTE OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY Plymouth, Devon PL6 6DE United Kingdom , UK , tel:+44 Anchor Marine & Supply, INC., 6545 Lindbergh Houston, Harvest Technology Group Limited

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    Image courtesy GLDD DGE ALVESTON SLAND G I Senior Director Sales - Global Marine and Stationary, Wabtec, off we are. Minimizing weight is an important consideration for makes the system smaller and simpler for the customer the that type of vessel and it links right into the reduced weight of the cost

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    minutes to fully deploy “Wind Challenger Plan,” an industry-academia project led by or retract the sail. The Wind Challenger sail is automated, de- The University of Tokyo. Since 2013, the team was chosen signed to make it easy for a normal crew to use the wind to to receive a subsidy on next-generation marine

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    ; Lone Star State for Texas A&M Maritime for the ? ve ships. The cumulative package is delivered by GE Academy; and Golden State for California State University Power Conversion. Maritime Academy – and each had input on the design, from “It’s built from a redundancy for the safe return to port fea- the

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    recent years, Kytölä said. In 2022, the company dedicated €241 million (about $255 million) to R&D expenditure, or 4.1% of its net sales, up from €165 million (about $175 million) and 3.2% in 2018. In particular, the company has been working to maxi- mize the ef? ciency of its portfolio of gas, diesel

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    Jason Stockwell, ated by the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natu- director of the Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory. ral Resources at the University of Vermont (UVM). The While the vessel will be used for limnological, ? sheries 64-foot-long aluminum catamaran was designed by Chart- and geophysical

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    24-hour operations, the newbuild le- man, SVP at Geodynamics. “This new best-in-class vessel will verages fundamental design elements of the Duke University provide an unmatched platform for our continued focus per- Marine Lab’s Shearwater and Blue Tide Puerto Rico’s Blue forming to the most stringent

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    Feature Great Vessels of 2023 Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation CAPE HATTERAS & CAPE CANAVERAL Damen’s Multi Cat multipurpose workboat design, well of deck space for the works on deck, and also enhance the proven in European markets, has made its entry into the stability that these vessels need for

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    Feature Great Vessels of 2023 Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation GALVESTON ISLAND Delivered this year amid an ongoing dredge building ed by a USCG requirement for crawl spaces around the boom in the United States, Galveston Island is the ? rst tanks in the event of a leak, Webb noted. “[Urea tanks

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    teries. All of this happens seamlessly through Stewart and ning, the towboat is expected to have an estimated 27% Stevenson’s power management system.” reduction in emissions compared to a conventional towing Propulsion is provided by two 575 KW Danfoss elec- vessel, the company added. tric motors that