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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Simpson, United States Coast Guard Academy

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Ocean and Marine

AC 2009-233: TEACHING SHIP STRUCTURES WITH SHEET METALWilliam Simpson, United States Coast Guard Academy Dr. William M. Simpson, Jr. is a faculty member in the Engineering Department at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. He has a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland, a Masters in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor of Science from the U. S. Coast Guard Academy. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Connecticut. He served on active duty in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1965 to 1992 and had assignments in Marine Safety, Naval Engineering, Acquisition, and Research and Development

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Manhar Dhanak, Florida Atlantic University; Ronald Yeung, University of California, Berkeley; Spyros Kinnas, University of Texas, Austin

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Ocean and Marine

expertise, through working on long-term problems ofimportance to the Navy, so that an adequate pipeline of new researchers, engineers, and facultyexists to meet anticipated future needs and opportunities. Seven key science and technology(S&T) emphasis areas for the program were identified: ship design tools, ship structuralmaterials, hydromechanics, advanced hull designs, ship propulsion, ship automation, andsystems integration.Following a workshop in 2002, several university consortia, consisting of teams ofcomplementary universities were formed under an ONR BAA to work with the newly formedCenter for Innovative Ship Design, NSWC-CD (CISD) (see for example, Keane et al.1). TheFAU Consortium consisted of Florida Atlantic University, University

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edgar An, Florida Atlantic University; Manhar Dhanak, Florida Atlantic University

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Ocean and Marine

-based environment in which the students experienced in the ESP class. In particular, we explored how “Ocean Engineering” can be used as an application domain for enhancing math and science teaching.At the beginning of the workshop, all the teachers were given a pre-workshop survey [5] that consists of thefollowing nine questions:1. What subject(s) have you taught? Page 14.93.4 2009 ASEE Southeast Section Conference2. What are the key concepts or ideas that the students should learn in these subjects?3. What methods or techniques work well for you in explaining these key