{"id":605,"date":"2016-12-12T17:10:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T17:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/fsiblog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2016-12-12T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T17:10:07","slug":"promoting-maritime-engineering-at-the-imeche-arnold-barks-christmas-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/2016\/12\/12\/promoting-maritime-engineering-at-the-imeche-arnold-barks-christmas-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting Maritime Engineering at the IMechE Arnold Barks Christmas Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Stephen Turnock and Laura Marimon Giovannetti had a busy day on the 7th July talking about the University of Southampton’s experience in engineering excellence in performance sport.\u00a0 Firstly in the afternoon at an event hosted by the Bishop Wordsworth school in Salisbury to an audience of 230 year 10 to year 12 students from four different school’s in the Salisbury area.\u00a0 Then again in a slightly longer format to the IMechE’s\u00a0Wessex Region as the 11th Annual Arnold Barks Christmas Lecture<\/a> to an audience of over 100\u00a0.
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Laura demonstrating her skills in competitive sailing<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nThe talk linked the long standing work at Southampton in performance sailing led for nearly five decades by the internationally renowned Wolfson Unit for Marine Technology and Industrial Aerodynamics<\/a>\u00a0now based in B185 adjacent to our new 138 m long towing tank, the work on developing F1 and Indy cars in the R.J.Mitchell wind tunnel <\/a>from the late 70s as well as over a\u00a0decade of collaboration with UKSport\/EIS(R&I) supporting a wide range of sports.\u00a0 The pursuit of performance that ensure that all athletes have the best possible equipment relies on a deep understanding of the physics of the problem coupled to possible engineering solutions. A common thread was the human aspects of the work where able PhD students work alongside sport scientists, coaches and athletes. To date PSEL has graduated 8 EngD\/PhD students many of whom\u00a0have an undergraduate\u00a0Ship Science degree.
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Dr Webb running a swimming test<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nIn a final section the relevance of the techniques and technologies developed\u00a0 in performance sport to the wider world and in particular the necessity to find solutions to the essential challenge of improving the energy efficiency of global shipping which transports 90% of the worlds goods, emits 3% of CO2 in 100,000 ships. How will these ships be fuelled in a low carbon world?\u00a0 An example of the cross-over is in Dr Angus Webb whose spin out\u00a0company Dynamon <\/a>offers services to the logistics industry.
\nFor both talks the audience asked challenging questions and were in turn asked to spread the word that many more maritime engineering and ship scientists are needed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Stephen Turnock and Laura Marimon Giovannetti had a busy day on the 7th July talking about the University of Southampton’s experience in engineering excellence in performance sport.\u00a0 Firstly in the afternoon at an event hosted by the Bishop Wordsworth school in Salisbury to an audience of 230 year 10 to year 12 students from … Continue reading Promoting Maritime Engineering at the IMechE Arnold Barks Christmas Lecture<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4066,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11,14,15,17,20,22],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-maritime-engineering","tag-naval-architecture","tag-offshore-engineering","tag-performance-sport","tag-ship-science","tag-sustainable-shipping"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}