Course Description:Many fleets around the world are trying to increase their fleets while still holding to budgetary constraints. One viable solution is to build classes of smaller platforms, using mostly commercial standards and hardware, to boost fleet numbers. At the forefront of this category is the Offshore Patrol Vessel, or OPV.Like most other ship categories, it is difficult to use absolutes to define the OPV. While its category can be...

Intro to Combat System Engineering introduces participants to the basic principles, processes and products of Combat System Engineering utilizing a structured, disciplined, and documented systems engineering approach. This approach enables multidisciplinary teamwork and product development needed to satisfy operator requirements. Participants have the opportunity to apply the skills they’ve learned in the classroom through group exercise...

Join ASNE Professional Development Committee Chair Rich Delpizzo and Executive Director Leigh McCue for a free 1-hour webinar, December 13, 2017. We will provide an overview of key milestones toward earning the ASNE Naval Engineering certificate. Bring your questions--we will stay online until the last question is answered! Learn more about the ASNE Naval Engineering Certificate at: http://www.navalengineers.org/Education/Naval-Engineering-Cer...

The 2017 Combat Systems Symposium is scheduled for December 4-5, 2017 at the Washington Navy Yard Catering and Conference Center. Theme: Positioning the Combat Systems Engineering Team for our Navy’s Future “Surface forces provide our nation with credible combat naval power at and from the sea in order to control the sea at the time and place of our choosing for the Joint Force to project power. We will do this by providing our war...

New environmental regulations require ships near major ports around the world to turn off dirty (high-sulfur) bunker fuel engines and switch to clean energy. These regulations have started impacting the operating modes of ships, tugboats, and ferries. Possible options, other than expensive low-sulfur fuel, for clean power on ship or on land, often for short time, include batteries and super-capacitors charged from shore power or using solar po...

The ASNE Design Sciences Series of workshops and conferences will explore emerging design approaches, methods, processes and tools for the successful design of naval engineering projects. This first conference focuses on Set-Based Design (SBD), a design method that has proven useful for projects with a large number of design variables, tight coupling among design variables, conflicting requirements, flexibility in requirements allowing for tra...

Those of us in the DC metro area are gathering together to watch the Nationals take on the Braves for ASNE Night. Game time is 7:05PM Eastern on September 12, 2017. This is the third year of this family-friendly social. Tickets are only $21, and $5 of every ticket goes to support American Society of Naval Engineers programs such as scholarships, symposia, courses, and student activities. Click here to purchase your ticket. Deadline: September...

The American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) Fleet Maintenance & Modernization Symposium is an annual event, alternating between Hampton Roads and San Diego, bringing together the entire naval ship maintenance and modernization community like no other forum. FMMS 2017 will include prominent guest speakers, panelists and paper presentations from the Navy, Coast Guard, industry and academia; providing a unique opportunity to interact with...

The Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) biennial 2017 Naval Future Force Science and Technology (S&T) EXPO will take place July 20-21, 2017. The Expo is the premier S&T event for the Navy and Marine Corps and is held every two years. It draws several thousand attendees and is designed to support the objectives of the Naval S&T Strategy. CNR RADM Hahn will discuss his strategic vision: "Naval Research: A Framework for the Navy ...

NAVSEA Attendance Approved - Read the Approval Letter Here Mega Rust is conducted annually to provide a consolidated focus on Navy corrosion issues. Corrosion is a major factor in the readiness and total ownership cost of naval systems and this conference is intended to provide updated information on programs, policies, standards and Fleet experience related to corrosion and to promote discussion and sharing of information on technologies and...