{"id":697,"date":"2017-12-08T15:31:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/fsiblog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2017-12-08T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:31:13","slug":"ship-science-students-form-part-of-winning-concept-design-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/2017\/12\/08\/ship-science-students-form-part-of-winning-concept-design-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Ship Science students form part of winning concept design team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Joint Branch of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rina.org.uk\/\">RINA<\/a>) and the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imarest.org\/\">IMarEST<\/a>) Design Challenge 2017 was won by a University of Southampton team comprising of two Ship Science students and a Mechanical Engineering student. \u00a0The team of three met whilst working as interns at BMT in Bath during the summer. \u00a0They struck up a friendship and decided to enter the competition.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2017\/12\/Profile-view.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-701\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2017\/12\/Profile-view.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1013\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2017\/12\/Profile-view.png 1013w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2017\/12\/Profile-view-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2017\/12\/Profile-view-768x342.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1013px) 100vw, 1013px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe design brief was to design a life boat capable of rescuing up to 1000 people from the sea at once, in response to the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. \u00a0&#8220;Team Wessex&#8221; was made up of James Lamyman (Part 2 Ship), Edward Wilson (Part 4 Mech) and Paloma Medina (Part 4 Ship) who was the team leader. \u00a0Their mentor was Paul Nichols from Lloyd&#8217;s Register. \u00a0The competition involved preparing a <a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2017\/12\/Final-Poster-Team-Wessex.pdf\">Poster<\/a> and presenting their design concept at an event held on the 4th December at the University of the West of England.<br \/>\n&#8220;Team Wessex&#8221; were crowned champions from a group of 6 entrants, two from BMT, one from each of SSMG, Stellar Systems, MoD DESG and &#8220;Team Wessex&#8221;, who walked off with the \u00a31000 first prize.<br \/>\nPaloma said &#8220;Sometimes it was challenging to combine University work and the lifeboat design work but we learned a lot from it and it was worth it. It was like doing a second concept design.&#8221; \u00a0Part 3 Ship Science students do a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/fsiblog\/2015\/01\/16\/concept-design-study-awards-presented-to-ship-science-3rd-year-students\/\">concept design<\/a> as part of their degree.<br \/>\nThe entry from &#8220;Team Wessex&#8221; was a 65m monohul with various innovative rescue capabilities:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2017\/12\/Concept-Vessel-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-698\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2017\/12\/Concept-Vessel-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2017\/12\/Concept-Vessel-2.png 399w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2017\/12\/Concept-Vessel-2-300x140.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It can seat 1000 people<\/li>\n<li>The vessel concept includes a well deck at stern for rescuing the ribs in which refugees tend to travel or collect the boats rescue ribs when they carry rescuees.<\/li>\n<li>Two high speed ribs at both sides launched,<\/li>\n<li>Side platforms which can be lowered to the water for rescuing purpose<\/li>\n<li>Vessel design integrates a processing system for rescues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2017\/12\/Well-deck-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-702\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2017\/12\/Well-deck-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2017\/12\/Well-deck-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-703\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2017\/12\/Well-deck-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Joint Branch of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) and the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) Design Challenge 2017 was won by a University of Southampton team comprising of two Ship Science students and a Mechanical Engineering student. \u00a0The team of three met whilst working as interns at BMT &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/2017\/12\/08\/ship-science-students-form-part-of-winning-concept-design-team\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ship Science students form part of winning concept design team<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4067,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,11,13,20],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-concept-design","tag-maritime-engineering","tag-mechanical-engineering","tag-ship-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","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\/4067"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}