Inspiring future maritime engineers
Maritime Engineering and Ship Science
by Stephen Turnock
4y ago
The “Future Marine Engineering” is an exciting residential course, developed to inspire Year 9 students aged 13 to 14 about marine engineering and career opportunities in the maritime sector. The course was organised by the Smallpeice Trust with technical content delivered our own inspiring team of post-doctoral researchers, Dr Jeanne Blanchard, Mr Przemyslaw Grudniewski and Dr Yikun Wang, in the Fluid Structure Interactions group at the University of Southampton. Wave Energy Trials in the poolThis year, 95 students took part in the 3.5 days course with the aim to design and build a wave energ ..read more
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Maritime UK Solent Launched
Maritime Engineering and Ship Science
by Stephen Turnock
4y ago
At the inaugral Maritime UK [follow the link to see a great video]awards held in Southampton on the 19th Sept, attended by the Minister for Shipping Nusrat Ghani (@Nus_Ghani) the launch of the Solent regional hub was formally announced. Key facts…As a regional hub the compact area of the Solent demonstrates the importance of the maritime sector both to the region and to the UK as a whole. Building 176 on Boldrewood Innovation campus – our home since 2014Its great to see the Solent being promoted to a wider audience as the excellent place it always has been to live and work.   Our Southampton M ..read more
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IMO World Maritime Day – Empowering Women in the Maritime Community
Maritime Engineering and Ship Science
by Stephen Turnock
4y ago
In honour of this year’s theme for World Maritime Day 2019 on 26th September, we are delighted to announce our networking event Empowering Women in the Maritime Community. We will be holding a Q&A/networking session for women in the maritime sector, who will be sharing what they do, how they got there, and any advice they might have. The session will be relatively informal, with lots of opportunities to ask questions and garner advice. More details to follow next month: RAENg Visiting Professor Dr Penny JeffcoateThe evnt is being coordinated by Dr Penny Jeffcoate our RAEng Visiting Profess ..read more
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It wasn’t this whale’s day – high quality imaging using autonomous underwater vehicles
Maritime Engineering and Ship Science
by Stephen Turnock
4y ago
  A 3D image reconstruction generated using BioCam showing an 8 metre long whale carcass that is sandwiched between two large coral mounds.A team from the University of Southampton has successfully obtained the largest continuous visual map of the seafloor ever obtained in UK waters during a currently ongoing expedition to the Darwin Mounds. The expedition led by co-chief scientists Blair Thornton of the University of Southampton and Veerle Huvenne of the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), deployed underwater robots to map cold-water-coral mounds at a depth of 1000m in a Marine Protected Area ..read more
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Future worlds – shippies lead the way
Maritime Engineering and Ship Science
by Stephen Turnock
4y ago
The University of Southampton’s Future Worlds on campus start up accelerator recently featured inspirational talks by two of Ship Science’s many graduate Entrepeneurs. Double graduate Dr Angus Webb talked of his experience creating Dynamon a start up providing analysis to help make transport logistics more efficient. For those who are interested in learning about Angus’ journey watch his inspirational talk Tom Whicher was equally inspiring when describing how he went from studying Ship Science at the University of Southampton to saving the NHS millions of pounds and 3000 years’ worth of mis ..read more
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Arkwright Scholars explore Maritime Engineering and Ship Science @Southampton
Maritime Engineering and Ship Science
by Stephen Turnock
4y ago
Ship Science has regularly hosted visits by Arkwright engineering scholars. These students apply for these prestigiuous shcolarships at 16 and are intended to help prepare them to be the next generation of leaders in the engineering profession. We were delighted to see tihs year that one of the visitors wrote some kind words about their visit. http://www.arkwright.org.uk/main/latest-news/post/50-scholars-explore-maritime-engineering   2019 Scjholars inspecting our 138 m long wave and towing tankOur courses at Southampton in Maritime Engineeirng and ship Science are designed to prepare students ..read more
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New ways to move and store water
Maritime Engineering and Ship Science
by Stephen Turnock
4y ago
Access to fresh water is a basic human need and yet in many areas of the world supplies are limited. Work led by by RIFI engineer and FSI PhD graduate Dr Charles Badoe has investigated a new lightweight and collapsible method of storing water within ship tanks.  Hydra concept tested at scale ..read more
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Clean and green – is Hydrogen the fuel that shipping needs?
Maritime Engineering and Ship Science
by Stephen Turnock
4y ago
As many are aware shipping makes a signficant contribution to green house gas emission.  The International Energy Agencys’ Hydrogen Implementing Agreement Task 39 working group met recently on the Boldrewood Innovation Campus to consider the progress to date and the barriers to adoption of hydrogen as a clean and green fuel for ships. The meeting was jointly hosted by Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI) and LR’s Global Technology Centre. Working group on the steps outside B176There is a strong focus among policy makers, ship owners and other stakeholders to work towards safer, gre ..read more
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Future fuels for shipping
Maritime Engineering and Ship Science
by Stephen Turnock
4y ago
Hydrogen Fuelled High Speed Marine Transport – EngD Thesis Ivo VeldhuisLooking to the future of how shipping can reduce its emissions of greenhouses gases and local pollutants such as NOx and SOx Professor Stephen Turnock spoke at an industry event recently organised by SC Group and chaired by Steve Austen. Other talks addressed the regulatory challenge of reducing emissions and in delivering diesel engines that are IMO Tier III compliant. https://proteum.co.uk/videos/ The challenge for today’s ship designers are significant as the future direction of how ships will be powered is not clear ..read more
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Celebrating 50 years of Ship Science
Maritime Engineering and Ship Science
by Stephen Turnock
4y ago
Its fifty years since the first ship science students enrolled at the University of Southampton and to mark this occasion a two day conference is being organised on 4th/5th April 2019.  We would like to invite as many Alumini as possible to attend and to contribute their expertise alongside current staff and students in considering how we shape the  future  of the maritime industry. To find out more follow this link https://www.southampton.ac.uk/engineering/research/groups/fsi/future-trends-in-maritime-industry.page Building 176 on Boldrewood Innovation campus – our home since 2014 ..read more
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