AM 09 Capsule Course Descriptions.

Course 1. Early Phase Ship Design - Benjamin Capuco (Gibbs & Cox, Inc.) and Sean Walsh (Alion Science) This course is an overview of the early stage ship-design process, encompassing feasibility studies and preliminary design to show how an integrated ship design is developed, starting with a statement of owner’s requirements. Topics addressed include preliminary performance studies, ship synthesis models; hull, machinery, combat systems, and systems engineering analyses, trade-off studies, design integration; and notes on the design of specific ship types, including high-performance ships.

Course 2. Marine Engineering for Commercial and Naval Ships - Kevin Prince (Gibbs & Cox, Inc.) This course reviews marine engineering functional requirements for ship design, addressing ship design phases, systems engineering analyses and integration, propulsion plant design, electrical generation plant design, and auxiliary system pump selection.

Course 3. Sailing Yacht Performance and Analysis - Drs. Robert Beck and Kevin Maki (University of Michigan) This course will focus on different analyses of the forces and moments on a sailing yacht, airfoil theory, keel and rudder design, sail design, model testing, and the use of computers in yacht performance analysis. A spreadsheet-based velocity prediction program and polar velocity diagram will be introduced. The course will draw heavily on the textbook Principles of Yacht Design by Larsson and Eliasson.

All will be accredited for 7 PDHs.