Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert H. Mayer Jr., U.S. Naval Academy; Angela Schedel, U.S. Naval Academy

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

Habitat Design Challenge: Teaching Engineering Design in a Multidisciplinary Role-Play ScenarioAbstractWithin the ocean engineering program at the U.S. Naval Academy, formal design instruction isprovided in our introductory design course, EN461, a precursor to capstone design. A usefulinstructional module towards this purpose is the Hex-Oid Habitat Design Challenge that providesstudents with a multidisciplinary design-team experience involving multiple phases of the designprocess and an opportunity to refine technical communication skills both within and external tothe design team. Working in teams of 4-6, each team member is assigned a distinct role, e.g.,Architect, Buoyancy Engineer, Foundation Engineer, etc., and each is

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William M. Simpson Jr., U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Raymond S. McCord, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

. These are advanced courses where knowledge of basic undergraduatematerial is required as a prerequisite. The capstone course for the program is a one year designstudio where students working in small teams to design a ship. The yearlong design includes acomprehensive structural design and analysis of the project ship.In the structural course sequence, students take general and advanced structural analysis (i.e.,structural mechanics, plates and shells) before taking the Ship Structural Analysis and Design(SSSAD) course. The SSAD course covers the complexity of ship structures: longitudinalstrength and hull primary stresses, design limit states including plate bending, column and panelbuckling, panel ultimate strength and plastic analysis. Matrix