Spaces & Places: Inside the ‘Crown Jewels’ of Newfoundland & Labrador
CenterMUN Grounds Provincial ResearchMUN, located in the capital of St. John’s, serves as home base for NL’s maritime sector, providing academic programs, testing and research facilities, plus opportunities for collaboration. The Ocean Engineering Research Centre (OERC) in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science boasts state-of-the-art technology, influential partnerships and researchers asking crucial questions for marine activity.Its oldest asset is a tow tank with a wavemaker that has been used for hydrodynamic studies into ships and offshore structures, explained David Molyneux
Singapore: LNG Terminal to Develop Data Center
The National University of Singapore's Faculty of Engineering (NUS), Singapore LNG Corporation (SLNG) and Keppel Data Centers Holdings join forces to develop new energy-efficient cooling technology for data centers.This innovation could further pave the way for more sustainable and compact data centers, said Singaporean conglomerate Keppel Corporation.With the rapid expansion of cloud-based services, AI, the Internet of Things and big data analytics, there has been an exponential demand across the globe for data centers in recent years. As the leading data center hub of Southeast Asia, Singapore
MacArtney Sponsors UK MATE ROV Team
of Civil War-era UXO. Before the launch and operations, each team must complete Explorer, Ranger, Navigator and Scout challenges.The first team from England to qualify for the prestigious MATE ROV competition, Avalon Underwater Robotics, comprises of 17 multidisciplinary students from the Faculty of Engineering. Representing Mechanical Engineering, Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Aerospace, Computer Science and Bio-engineering the team traveled to the USA to participate in a series of challenges designed to test their collective ingenuity. Commenting
Researchers Set Out to Future-proof Offshore Wind Turbine Monopiles
facilities and researchers in experimental hydraulic and hydrodynamics.Partners involved in PROTEUS are: Department of Civil Engineering at Ghent University, HR Wallingford (UK), the Ludwig-Franzius Institute for Hydraulic, Estuarine and Coastal Engineering at the University of Hannover, the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto, the Geotechnics division of the Belgian Department of Mobility and Public Works, and International Marine and Dredging Consultants (IMDC nv)
Atlantic Canada: Where the World’s Subsea Technology Grows
operations in Canada and the largest electronics product design company in Atlantic Canada. Hanlon’s personal passion is innovation and its impact on the competitiveness of Canadian industry. Jim is a proud alumnus of the Nova Scotia Technical College (now Dalhousie University Faculty of Engineering) with a degree in electrical engineering. He also has an MBA in marketing from Saint Mary’s University in Halifax and is a registered professional engineer in Nova Scotia. (As published in the January/February 2017 edition of Marine Technology Reporter
Designing for Ice with Ian Jordaan
Dr. Ian Jordaan, Professor Emeritus and University Research Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University, and President of Ian Jordaan Associates, Inc. How did a South African engineering student end up in Newfoundland? I immigrated during the time that Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island. I was strongly pro-Mandela. I went to England first, where I did doctoral studies, and then I immigrated to Canada and obtained a position at the University of Calgary. Then I entered consulting work with Det Norske Veritas in Calgary. They had formed a Cold
Will Robots Aid Maritime Search and Rescue?
ship strands or drowns in high sea, but the atmospherical and maritime conditions do not allow the search and rescue teams to perform the victims’ rescue operations in safety,” said Aníbal Matos, researcher from INESC TEC (INESC Technology and Science) and lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), one of the responsible people for ICARUS Sea Trials in Lisbon 2015. “One solution would be to use autonomous robots that can help these teams in catastrophic situations.” The demonstration included Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) and Unmanned
Memorial University & Understanding Icebergs
. Support vessels can encircle the berg with a cable or net and change its direction or use water cannons or wash from a vessel’s propellers to put the iceberg on a different course. Neil Riggs, an iceberg expert and senior project manager, Autonomous Ocean Systems Laboratory (AOSL), Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Memorial University, in St. John’s, NL, put some perspective on the iceberg count. “If you draw a line of latitude from St. John’s, going eastward, that is almost 48 degrees north latitude, that is the index line that the International Ice Patrol
Deep Thinkers: Advancing Underwater Technology
technology to exciting new levels Newfoundland and Labrador has been front and center on some of the world’s paradigm shifting ocean-based research and development achievements. Autonomous Oceans Systems Laboratory (AOSL) is a research facility within Memorial University’s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, focused on the advancement of persistent unmanned systems technology in harsh environments. Masters and Doctoral students from the university play a key role in driving AOSL’s research and development, including exploring new and innovative ways to utilize autonomous
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