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Study Committee Biographical Information
Pages 232-244

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From page 232...
... Marine Board and recently (2010) completed service as vice chair of the NRC Ocean Studies Board's Committee on the Review of the Tsunami Warning and Forecast System and Overview of the Nation's Tsunami Preparedness.
From page 233...
... His research interests include total ship systems engineering -- systems engineering methods applied to the ship design environment and design and construction process; Navy surface ship survivability; and the design and integration of Navy combatant ships. Professor Calvano began his career in 1963 as a seagoing officer and was assigned in 1970 to the Boston Naval Shipyard as a drydocking officer and ship superintendent.
From page 234...
... In NAVSEA, he last served as the Director for Science and Technology and acted as the Executive Director of the Ship Design, Integration, and Engineering Directorate and previously held positions as Chief Naval Architect, Executive Director, Surface Ship Design and Systems Engineering Group, and as the Principal Assistant, Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy Appropriations Sponsor for the Chief of Naval Operations. He is the President of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME)
From page 235...
... Leonard Imas is Associate Professor of Ocean Engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology. Before joining the faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology, he was a principal scientist in the Fluid Mechanical Systems Group at the Anteon Corporation and prior to that was a lead research scientist in the Deepwater Development Group at Chevron–Texaco Energy Company.
From page 236...
... She served on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel and the Baker Panel investigating safety culture in the Texas City Oil Refinery explosion and has been involved in many accident investigations, including serving as an expert advisor to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board and the Presidential Oil Spill Commission (Deepwater Horizon)
From page 237...
... Navy and past Marine Board chair, is Managing Member, emeritus of MSCL LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in ship engineering. Admiral MacKinnon previously served in various executive and command positions with the Navy from 1955 until his retirement in 1990, including Deputy Commander of Ship Design and Engineering in the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)
From page 238...
... Coast Guard Marine Safety Center. He earned a PhD in mechanical engineering at Catholic University in 1992; MS degrees in mechanical engineering and in naval architecture
From page 239...
... He serves as the Vice President of the Center for Public Awareness for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and on the Executive Advisory Board of the FIRST Robotics Foundation, and he previously served as a national officer of the American Society for Engineering Education, as an evaluator for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, and as a member of the State of Connecticut Department of Higher Education Board of Governor's Advisory Committee on Accreditation.
From page 240...
... He was a visiting professor at the Center of Excellence for Ships and Ocean Structures, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim in 2007; Humboldt Professor at the Institut für Schifftechnischen, Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg, Germany in 1998; visiting professor at the Research Institute of Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Japan in 1998; and Humboldt Professor at the Institut für Schiffbau, University of Hamburg, West Germany in 1988. From 1970 to 1971, he was a naval architect in the Advanced Marine Technology Division of Litton Ship Systems in Culver City, California.
From page 241...
... Navy–American Society of Engineering Education Senior Faculty Research Fellow in 1993, and was Royal Norwegian Research Council Senior Visiting Research Scientist in 1994.


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