Marine Technology - October 2008 - Page#15

<BODY> <span id="lblContents">tion sponsored by Lloyd's Register was a fabulous closing to the day and allowed for some consolidation on the concepts introduced and provided a further networking opportunity. If this workshop was of interest to you, please consider the Technical Requirements Workshop that SNAME is moving forward with for the 5th and 6th of November 2008. Details will be available in the near future. CHESAPEAKE SECTION Section holds 1st Chesapeake Power Boat Symposium in Annapolis by Chris Bassler and William Mish, Jr. Young Professionals at the Eastern Canadian Section Lunch and Learn Meeting As the event facilitator, Andrew Sillitoe from Lloyd's Register then took the reigns of the workshop and laid the framework for the technical side of the Human Element while getting group participation with brainstorming, group work and even a team challenge of building a Lego car! Mr. Sillitoe used his background in Applied Psychology and experience with the Maritime and Coast Guard Agency (MCA) in the U.K. to explore the importance of, and how to effectively address, Human Element issues. When Glenn Walters, Chair of SNAME ECS, summarized the Human Element wrap up session, he brought the key points from each of the participants as follows: the cost of accommodating the Human Element will have a direct impact on the ability to recruit and retain human resources; the feedback from stakeholders is important to continuously improve conditions, systems and processes; the "art of the compromise" in the Marine community often has the Human Element as the first cut in the assessment of a system; a system made up of people, individual equipment and processes require that the buyer or user of ships and ship systems need to be informed and smart customers in order to get the technical requirements right and the Human Element appropriately accommodated. It seemed that every one of the participants had something constructive to take away from the workshop. When asked for an assessment of the event, people gave an average rating of 8-8.5 out of 10 for the topic, networking, relevancy and career development. Each of the participants enjoyed UNITED STATES it enough that they said MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY they would encourage MASTERS MARINE ENGINEERING PROGRAM this type of opportunity to colleagues and manOnline Based Distance - Learning Engineering Education agers. Aside from the lessons themselves, the best part of the workshop was clearly the people component. We would like to give special thanks to Dr. Jon Stuart for sharing his experiences as a Human Performance expert and setting the focus and tone for the day. We would also like to thank Lloyd's Register, for making available the facilitator resources of Andrew Sillitoe and Marcel LaRoche for the idea and commitment of carrying out this event. As a final comment, the post event recep- The first Chesapeake Power Boat Symposium (www.powerboatsymposium.com) was held March 7 and 8 at St. Johns College in Annapolis, Maryland. The symposium was co-sponsored by the Chesapeake Section and Professional BoatBuilder magazine. Nearly twenty papers and presentations were fea- This practice orientated graduate program focuses on advanced marine engineering concepts and skills that will form the basis for continued professional growth for decades. Discussion and analysis of the newest leading-edge designs and operation considerations are led by Academy faculty and prominent maritime experts. The MMarE program is open to U.S. and International students. For additional information visit: MMarE website at www .usmma.edu/gradcourse or Professor Jose Femenia, P.E. MMarE Program Director at 516-773-5743 Email: femeniaj@usmma.edu SNAME NEWS 15</span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>