See You in Miami Beach
By Virgil Seaman and Jeffery Maestas, Co-chairs, Academic PIC Division/Industry Specific

We want to extend an invitation to educators to join us at the upcoming COE 2004 Annual Conference & TechniFair being held at the Fontainebleau Hilton Resort in Miami Beach, Florida. The Academic Track will be offering three breakout sessions which will be listed under "Training and Education":

AC-1 CATIA Studies of the St. Louis Arch
Lawrence Wolf, Oregon Institute of Technology
As a warm up for the Bicentennial Celebration of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, I assigned several related studio projects to students in the Courses in which CATIA is used as the primary laboratory resource tool. These courses are "Solid Modeling," "Finite Element Analysis," and "Numerical Control Programming;" which are upper divisional courses in the BS degree mechanical and manufacturing engineering technology programs.

In these studio projects the students modeled the St. Louis Arch (The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.) from the exact mathematical relationships used by Eero Saarinen. Then they used that digital model to do finite element stress analyses for stresses, deflections and vibrations. Finally they conceived and analyzed different tool-path strategies for the possible three and five-axis cutting of a physical model of the arch. The objective was to position CATIA centrally within the curriculum and use its full functionality.

Examples of the work of several students will be presented dealing with modeling techniques, arch stresses, the amount of separation force required for "keystone" placement, the vibration frequencies and mode shapes, and paths for three and five-axis cutting.

Oregon Institute of Technology is an IBM HEAT (Higher Education And Training) program partner.

AC-2: The USS Monitor: A Capstone Course for TNCC/NGNN Design Co-op Program
Maury Middleton, Thomas Nelson Community College
The fall semester of 2003, Thomas Nelson Community College Design Co-op program implemented their capstone course "The Monitor Project" for marine designers. This project is working with Northrop Grumman Newport News (NGNN), the Mariners Museum, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to capture the design of the Civil War ironclad, the USS Monitor. Portions of the Civil War ironclad, including the turret, engine, propeller and other items have been retrieved from its watery grave of the coast of North Caroline and are being restored at its new home, the Mariners Museum in Newport News.

The students will be working with old drawings of John Ericsson and reverse engineering of the artifacts taken from the bottom of the ocean to create a 3D model in CATIA. The goal is to create the most accurate representation of the USS Monitor with a complete catalog of parts and then perform various engineering analysis on the design and in the process learning many advanced features of CATIA. Thomas Nelson Community College is an IBM HEAT (Higher Education And Training) program partner.

AC-3: The TNCC/NGNN Design Co-op Program: A Model of Business and Education Partnership
Maury Middleton, Thomas Nelson Community College
The Design Co-op Program between Thomas Nelson Community College and Northrop Grumman Newport News, formally Newport News Shipyard began in 1999 with 12 students. The goal was to take advantage of the CAD high school courses and produce a pipeline from school to work. Students graduate from TNCC with an Associate in Applied Science degree in Computer Aided Drafting and Design and 8 months of on the job training. They have a 97% job placement rating. Since the beginning, 141 students have graduated from the program and the enrollment currently stands at just under 100 students. The Design Co-op program has earned the Newport News Shipbuilding Chairman's Model of Excellence Award, the Virginia Council of Vocational Education Award, and recently the Virginia Community College System Business-Industry Partner of the Year Award. Thomas Nelson Community College is an IBM HEAT (Higher Education And Training) program partner.

Be sure to attend the daily luncheons and join us at the tables marked "Academic Institutions." This is time where we can all sit down and share ideas during our busy day.

For further information about the "HEAT Program", contact information is listed below:
Q. W. (Buz) Nowicki
CATIA Higher Education an Training (HEAT) Program Manager
Product Lifecycle Management Solutions
18000 West Nine Mile Road
Southfield, MI 48075
(248) 552-5981 IBM Tie Line 896-5981 Fax (248) 552-6886
e-mail qnowicki@us.ibm.com

University of Michigan Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Department Joins IBM and Dassault Systemes' PLM Higher Educational and Training Program

USA's Top Ranking Undergraduate Shipbuilding Program to Use SMARTEAM to Manage Ship Design Information Shared by Students, Researchers and Faculty

IBM and Dassault Systemes have announced that the University of Michigan is the latest university to participate in IBM's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Higher Education and Training (HEAT) program. This program, supported by hardware and software contributions from IBM and Dassault Systemes, is designed to help alleviate the shortage of skilled engineers by preparing students for the business world with training on the world's leading product development and data management applications.

The University of Michigan's Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NA&ME) with the support of the Naval Sea System Command Ship Production Science Program, has adopted SMARTEAM as a core technology for the university's shipbuilding studies. SMARTEAM, a collaborative product design data management solution from IBM and developed by Dassault Systemes, will be the collaborative product data and lifecycle management application for the development of its Federated Ship Design Management and Guidance Tool program.

Professor Thomas Lamb, Director of the Shipbuilding Research Laboratory, Director of the Naval Sea System Command NAVSEA Ship Production Science Program, and Adjunct Professor, said, "The University of Michigan has long promoted the use of digital tools and management methods through the undergraduate ship design courses and ongoing research. Today's complex shipbuilding projects are only possible because of electronic communication, management and collaboration tools."

"SMARTEAM's workflow, Web portal and collaboration multi-CAD features will help student project team leaders to delegate tasks among the student-designers in the best way possible," said Alain Houard, director Shipbuilding Business Unit, Dassault Systemes. "Their use of SMARTEAM on the Capstone ship design teams and research projects will facilitate communication of design data and task management and leverage the emphasis on teamwork at the University of Michigan."

The University of Michigan is implementing this state-of-the-art program to provide an environment in which designers and managers can share information in a streamlined way. Students learn the same organizational and project programming skills required for design projects undertaken in a shipyard. The IBM PLM collaborative product data management platform will help students launch new projects by acting as a central repository for project information. The SMARTEAM application will offer a method of assigning and tracking work-flow, and also for understanding project requirements where documents in various formats can be consulted and project standards defined based on best industry practices, yard standards and standards from classification societies.

About the University of Michigan's Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

The history of the University of Michigan's Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering can be tracked to an 1879 act of Congress. With development of more than one hundred years, the department is now recognized as one of the top departments in this field in the world. The undergraduate program is ranked number one in the United States, while overall undergraduate education at the University of Michigan is ranked third (Gourman Report, 10th Edition, 1997). The University of Michigan was the first university to offer a graduate program in Ship Production Science in the United States. For more information, visit http://www.engin.umich.edu/dept/name/name.html