Our next University open day is rapidly approaching on the 3rd and 4th of September. We will be providing a range of activities associated with our ship science degree programmes including displays around our recent 4th year group design projects as seen in the Faculty design show and weather permitting displayed on the lawn in front of B176 including our very own foiling research catamaran.
Staff and students will be on hand in a drop in room to discuss the many opportunities that a Ship science degree programme offers and our flexible choice of themes in naval architecture, yacht and small craft, offshore engineering amongst a number. Panorama of B185 – a very smart new towing tank frontage
Recent and not so recent graduates are welcome to catch up and to see our exciting new Boldrewood Innovation Campus including visits and demonstrations of our 138 m long, 6 m wide and 3.5 m deep hydroscience towing and wave tank. Please explore some of our recent activities reported in this blog.
Our admissions team will give a number of presentations through the day and can answer detailed questions.
All are welcome and we would particularly encourage those who maybe are not aware of the exciting opportunities in the maritime engineering sector. If you have potential interests in mechanical engineering or aerospace then please visit the Boldrewood campus and find out some more!
International Sports Engineering Conference in Delft
The 11th ISEA conference: “The Engineering of Sport 11’” took place in Delft, Netherlands between the 11th and 14th of July 2016. The conference, widely recognised as the leading sports engineering conference, was attended by many representatives of well-known companies such as Adidas and Sunnto as well as academics from word class universities. Four PhD students from Southampton Performance Sports Engineering Laboratory (within FSI) together with Dr Chris Phillips, Prof Dominic Hudson and Prof Stephen Turnock attended the conference.
The conference started with a tour of TU Delft Sports Engineering Institute and Delft University of Technology laboratories, after which all delegates enjoyed themselves over welcome drinks on the main square of Delft town. Main square
During the conference, as many as 165 papers were presented. The variety of topics and speakers in three parallel sessions at all times, ensured that everyone found a talk related to their area of work. In between the presentation, visitors could enjoy interesting exhibitions from various sports companies and poster sessions. Healthy travel
University of Southampton’s PSE Lab presented four papers on a broad variety of research with topics ranging from swimming technique monitoring techniques presented by Scott Michaels, who used cap-mounted tri-axial accelerometer to measure the distance, lap times and stroke rates in swim training to kayak race prediction algorithm by Adam Higgens. In his paper, Adam presented the output of his BEng project on the simulator for sprint kayak racing allowing the prediction of race times based on the physiological capabilities and mass of a given athlete. On the winter sports side, Chen Gong presented his work on the analysis of performance indices for simulated skeleton descent. As part of his PhD, Chen is developing a three degree-of-freedom simulation to analyse the influence of different control strategies on the descent time of a bob-skeleton. The paper outlined the effect of control variables in the search of optimal controller design. Prof Turnock presented a paper on Human- Fluid –Structure Interaction for the International Moth, in which both the the impact of foil deflections and dynamic sailor motions were analysed to better understand their influence on the performance of a foiling dinghy. The papers are all available on-line as part of Procedia. Not so modern but effective performance bike at rest
The conference provided a great opportunity for networking with both well-known academics as well as other PhD students from other universities. All delegates took part in a fun sports evening where they could choose from playing tennis, football or ultimate frisbee and meet their teammates over an informal setting. There was also a chance to try your strength at a special Survival Run held at the university sports complex! The English and penalties
Team hydro in action
For the second year the Maritime Engineers and Ship Scientists amongst others from the University of Southampton have taken part in the HYDRO challenge on Lake Geneva and as recently reported by the University.
This year their foiling catamaran performed strongly as noted on their facebook page excerpted below. Many congratulations to all involved and grateful thanks to all those who sponsored the team! Onwards and upwards for 2017… HYDROCONTEST FINAL UPDATE:
Well it’s all over now! The team is currently waiting at Calais to board a ferry back to the UK, and we’re all happy to be heading home after a wonderful experience!
Just to recap:
Lightweight race: 6th
Heavyweight race: 4th
Endurance race: 4th
Communications Prize winners
We’re very proud of our achievement, but would also like to congratulate all of the other teams who participated in the #Hydrocontest. Your spirit, friendliness and eagerness to share information truly made the competition a fantastic experience.
That’s it for our coverage of the Hydrocontest for now, though stay tuned for thanks to our sponsors/partners, and for some unseen photos and videos that we didn’t have time to show you!
Once again, thanks for your continued support, and we can’t wait until we can do it all again next year!
Our next University open day is rapidly approaching on the 3rd and 4th of September. We will be providing a range of activities associated with our ship science degree programmes including displays around our recent 4th year group design projects as seen in the Faculty design show and weather permitting displayed on the lawn in front of B176 including our very own foiling research catamaran.
