Update of National Naval Responsibility for Naval Engineering

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The U.S. Navy has many unique naval engineering needs that demand a highly capable and robust U.S. naval engineering enterprise. In seeking an independent review of the unclassified elements of its National Naval Responsibilities—Naval Engineering (NNR-NE) program, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) asked for recommendations on ways to ensure the program meets the many naval engineering research, education, and workforce needs that will be critical to the Future Navy.

Toward New Naval Platforms: A Strategic View of the Future of Naval Engineering recommends a number of strategies, including advice that ONR adopt a "lead, leverage, and monitor" framework for the programming, prioritization, and integration of its investments within and across the NNR-NE's three "pillars" of science and technology (S&T), education and workforce development, and experimental infrastructure.

The report points out that as the technological landscape critical to naval engineering continues to expand at a rapid pace, NNR-NE must make strategic choices about when it should invest directly in research that meets naval-unique S&T needs, and when it should leverage technological advances from other domains.

Likewise, the report points to the importance of the NNR-NE making direct investments to inspire STEM interest among K-12 students and attract undergraduate and graduate students to the field of naval engineering but also to leverage the many STEM programs found elsewhere in the Navy and Department of Defense.

The report stresses the importance of engaging individuals from under-represented groups to expand the naval engineering talent pool and to find creative ways to expedite the recruitment of workers to Navy-critical professions by providing naval engineering graduates with early work opportunities while awaiting security clearances.

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106 pages · 6 x 9 · paperback
ISBN Paperback: 0-309-49885-6
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-49886-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/25601

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Toward New Naval Platforms: A Strategic View of the Future of Naval Engineering. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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Heidi C. Perry

Heidi C. Perry is director, system engineering, at the Charles S. Draper Laboratory, Incorporated. Her expertise includes guidance, navigation, and control; global position system antijam and ground control; precisions weapons delivery command and control; autonomous systems, mission-critical software; and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems. Ms. Perry began her career with General Electric as a systems engineer working on the AN/BSY-2 Sonar System before moving to IBM, also as a systems engineer. From IBM she moved to Draper Laboratory as task leader for the Dolphin Navigation System Upgrade and remains with Draper after nearly 20 years. In these years at the laboratory, she has served as technical director for various research and development programs involving autonomous spacecraft, aircraft, robotics systems, and underwater vehicles. She is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and was named AIAA Software Engineer of the Year 2004—New England Sector. She was also listed in the Mass High Tech Women to Watch in 2005. A former member of the NSB, she also served on the National Academies’ Committee on Capability Surprise for U.S. Naval Forces, Committee on National Security Implications of Climate Change on U.S. Naval Forces, and Committee on the “1,000 Ship Navy”—A Distributed and Global Maritime Network. Most recently, she served as the co-chair of the National Academies’ Committee on Mainstreaming Unmanned Undersea Vehicles into Future U.S. Naval Operations. She received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Cornell University and an M.S. in computer engineering from the National Technical University.

Michael S. Bruno

Michael S. Bruno is the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Hawai?i at Manoa.
Prior to his appointment, he was the Dean of the School of Engineering and Science, and Professor of Ocean Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. He was also the Director of the Center for Maritime Security, a Department of Homeland Security National Center of Excellence. Dr. Bruno is a Visiting Professor in Mechanical Engineering at University College London.
His research and teaching interests include ocean observation systems, maritime security, and community resilience. He is the author of more than 100 technical publications in various aspects of these fields.
He has served on numerous advisory committees and boards, including Chairing the Marine Board of the National Academies; the Ocean Research Advisory Panel; the Naval Research Advisory Committee, and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Coastal Zone Community of Practice. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Marine Environmental Engineering. A Fulbright Scholar (1996 appointment at the Aristotle University, Greece), Dr. Bruno is also a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers
He received the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 1991, and the Outstanding Service Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1988.
Dr. Bruno holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, a M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and a PhD degree in Civil and Ocean Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science & Engineering.

Thomas M. Jahns

Thomas M. Jahns (NAE) is the Grainger Professor of Power Electronics and Electric Machines at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, has been a driving force behind the development of high-performance permanent magnet (PM) synchronous machine drives, distinguished by magnets in their spinning rotors. Since early in his professional career at General Electric, Dr. Jahns has made important technical contributions leading to pioneering applications of PM drives in machine tools, home appliances, aerospace actuators, and electric vehicles. Drawing on these principles, nearly all hybrid- and battery-electric passenger vehicles in high-volume commercial production today have adopted PM synchronous machines for their electric propulsion systems. An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Jahns' many honors include the 2005 IEEE Nikola Tesla Technical Field Award that recognizes the significance of his PM machine contributions. He has served as president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society and as Division II Director on the IEEE Board of Directors. Both the IEEE Industry Applications Society and the IEEE Power Electronics Society have recognized him as a Distinguished Lecturer. He has served on a number of NRC committees including the Committee on Review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership, Phase 1; the Review for the Intelligent Vehicle Initiative, Phase 1; and the Committee on the Advanced Automotive Technologies Plan. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT.

Jennifer G. Michaeli

Jennifer G. Michaeli is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology with a joint appointment at Old Dominion University’s Batten College of Engineering and Technology (BCET) and the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC). Prior to ODU, Dr. Michaeli was a naval architect for Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division where she led design, construction and experimentation programs for high performance vessels and associated technologies for the US and partnering nations. She also worked in the marine industry overseeing design and construction of manned and unmanned vessels for military and commercial applications. Her current research interests focus on digital tools and technologies to improve design, construction and maintenance for naval vessels and aligning workforce development programs to harness these digital technologies. Dr. Michaeli earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from ODU (2010), her M.S. degree in Ocean Systems Management from MIT (1999), and B.S. degrees in naval architecture and marine engineering from Webb Institute (1998). She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV) Outstanding Faculty Rising Star Award (2017), ODU BCET Excellence in Research Award (2016), RADM Melville Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement NSWCCD (2007), American Society of Naval Engineers Young Engineer of the Year Award (2006). Dr. Michaeli was elevated to Fellow by the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (2017) and was selected by the membership at large to serve as a National Councilor for the American Society of Naval Engineers (2014-2016). She is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Virginia since 2004.

Marc Y. Pelaez, Retired

RADM Marc Y.E. Pelaez (USN, retired) is the retired Vice President of Business Development at Newport News Shipbuilding. Previously, he served for 28 years in the Navy, retired with a rank of Rear Admiral. His experience in the Navy was very broad, and included command of nuclear-powered attack submarine, Sunfish. In his last assignment in the Navy, he served as Chief of Naval Research. Upon joining Newport News in 1996, he served as Vice President Engineering until he assumed his current position. Pelaez served in various positions in the Navy during his career: From 1990 to 1993 he served as the executive assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and from 1993 to 1996 as director of submarine technology at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and chief of the Office of Naval Research. As a civilian he served as director of Technology / Scientific and Technical Instruments at II-VI Incorporated, Saxonburg, Pennsylvania. He is a 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.

Steven E. Ramberg

Steven E. Ramberg, vice-chair, is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National Defense University (NDU) on assignment from the Applied Research Laboratory of Pennsylvania State University. At NDU he occupies the Chief of Naval Research Chair where he provides analysis and advice on science and technology topics and policies, primarily in areas of naval relevance. He also regularly participates in studies, panels, and lectures for NDU, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Ocean Council via the Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel, and others. During his career, he served as a Fellow and as Vice President for Arete Associates during 2007 to 2010; as the Director of the NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC) in LaSpezia, Italy, from 2003 to 2007; and as Director and Chief Scientist for the Office of Naval Research (ONR) from 2001 to 2003 after joining ONR in 1988. His career at ONR also involved oversight of ocean, atmosphere, and space programs in basic research through applied programs, including the Navy-owned research vessels in the academic fleet, as well as inaugurating the National Ocean Partnership Program across 12 federal agencies. At the NURC, he focused on maritime, mostly undersea, research programs while advising NATO in a number of informal and formal settings including research and technology strategies, coordination of programs among the 26 NATO nations, and transformation of NATO capabilities. In this capacity he was frequently called upon to give keynote addresses at international gatherings on topics ranging from status and trends in undersea research to issues of marine mammal risk reduction together with opportunities for port and harbor security research and maritime archaeology. Earlier, he worked at the Naval Research Laboratory where he published over 60 unclassified papers in the archival literature on fluid dynamics of bluff bodies, nonlinear ocean waves, stratified wakes, turbulence near a free surface, and related remote-sensing topics.

Ronald A. Route

VADM Ronald A. Route (USN, retired) was appointed as President, Naval Postgraduate School September 30, 2013. He comes to the assignment with over twenty years of leadership experience at the senior executive and operational level, which included responsibilities in graduate education, program requirements and resources, international affairs, research and development, and ethics. Route’s significant career assignments include President of the Naval War College, and Commander, Navy Warfare Development Command. He also served in two earlier flag officer assignments leading major divisions on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO): Director of Navy Programming and Director, Politico-Military Affairs. A career Surface Warfare Officer, Route’s sea duty included assignments and deployments in cruisers, destroyers, frigates and aircraft carriers; he commanded the AEGIS cruiser USS LAKE ERIE (CG 70) and the guided-missile destroyer USS DEWEY (DDG 45). His most recent command at sea was the USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) Carrier Strike Group of ten ships plus the embarked carrier air wing. After retirement from the Navy in 2008, Route spent more than three years as a senior vice president at Burdeshaw Associates, Ltd. – an executive-level consulting firm specializing in defense industry and government business. Route holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Systems Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, and a Master’s of Science in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School. He also served as the Navy’s Senior Military Fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, and attended the Executive Business Course, Kenan-Flager Business School at the University of North Carolina.

Jessica K. Shang

Jessica K. Shang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester. Her research interests include: wakes of ships and bluff bodies; vascular fluid mechanics; fluid-structure interactions and biomechanics. Previously she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine where she studied Biologically-inspired fluid mechanics (e.g., locomotion, cardiovascular flows). In 2017, she was Office of Naval Research Summer Faculty Research Fellow. She has an A.B. from Harvard College and a PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University.

Alexandra H. Techet

Alexandra H. Techet is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering (with tenure), in the department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. During her doctoral studies at MIT she received both the prestigious Department of Defense NDSEG fellowship, as well as the Link Foundation Fellowship in Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation. In 2002, after a brief post-doc at Princeton University in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Prof. Techet returned to MIT as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Ocean Engineering. In 2005, Prof. Techet joined the Mechanical Engineering Dept. at MIT when the two departments merged. She also holds a guest appointment at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and works with researchers there to develop oceangoing instrumentation. Professor Techet’s research is in the area of experimental hydrodynamics and aims to address long-standing hydrodynamics problems faced by the U. S. Navy and the ocean science and engineering communities through rigorous experimental investigation and imaging. Professor Techet was a recipient of the 2004 ONR Young Investigators Award. Her imaging work has been recognized several times (2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011) by the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics Gallery of Fluid Motion and has been featured on the cover of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and in the Discovery Channel Time Warp TV Series. She received her B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 1995 from Princeton University and then graduated from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanographic Engineering with a M.S. in 1998 and a Ph.D. in 2001.

Jennifer K. Waters

Jennifer K. Waters is professor in the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the United States Naval Academy. She teaches primarily core and elective ocean engineering courses, and is involved in various ocean engineering and naval architecture research projects. She is active in a variety of USNA and external professional committees. Prior to her arrival at USNA in 1994, she was research assistant in the Davidson Laboratory, Stevens Institute of Technology (1991-1994) and research assistant, Webb Institute of Naval Architecture. Prof Waters' research interests bridge the fields of naval architecture and ocean engineering. Research sponsors have included the Office of Naval Research (ONR), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC). She has a bachelor’s degree, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, from the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture; a master’s and Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken.

Yin Lu (Julie) Young

Yin Lu (Julie) Young is a Professor at the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and the Director of the Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on advancing the fundamental understanding of the dynamic response and stability of adaptive marine structures in multiphase flows. Prof. Young served as the Society of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (SNAME) representative on the United States National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM) between 2009-2014, and she is an active member on the SNAME H-8 (Propulsion Hydrodynamics) Panel. Dr. Young has written over two hundred journal and conference papers in the area of fluid-structure interactions related to marine and coastal structures, and she has acted as a consultant to government and industry. Dr. Young has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Dick K. Yue

Dick K.P. Yue is Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering and Director of International Programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His career has included research on computational hydrodynamics, research and teaching in marine fluid mechanics, and applying biomimetic principles to marine design. He is the former Associate Dean of Engineering and developer of unique education programs and instructional methods and tools. Dr. Yue earned Sc.D./Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees in civil engineering from MIT in 1980, 1976, and 1974, respectively. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the MIT Class of 1960 Innovation in Education Award and Fellowship (2006 - 2008), the Japanese Government Foreign Specialist Research Award (1987), the Henry L. Doherty Chair Professorship (1984 - 1986), and the Arthur T. Ippen Fellow (1976). Dr. Yue is a life member of the American Physical Society and of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.

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