University of Michigan engineering students, under Professor Maki’s Naval Engineering Education Consortium grant, are researching how to adapt U.S. Navy ships for Arctic conditions, utilizing innovative testing methods to improve ship design and safety in icy waters. The project aims to engage undergraduates in navy-related engineering through hands-on research and real-world problem-solving.

Naval architecture first caught our attention in 2022, when it appeared in an EdSurge analysis of federal data about high-earning college majors.

Gregory Beers and Corey Wood, president and vice president, respectively, of naval architect firm Bristol Harbor Group Inc. (BHGI) in Bristol, R.I., are this year’s recipients of the 2024 Rosenblatt-Michigan Award, presented annually by the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering and Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering to recognizes alumni who demonstrate outstanding excellence, innovation, and integrity in ship design.

The United States Maritime Administration’s (MARAD) Office of Environment and Innovation has selected ABS to establish and maintain the U.S. Center for Maritime Innovation (Center) under a five-year cooperative agreement.

The state of Michigan has picked a team from the University of Michigan’s Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering department for nearly $200,000, yearlong project to develop a maritime strategy for the state.

Larger ships allow for more efficient use of fuel but can contribute to overtourism converns in popular destinations.

Wave energy could power millions of homes, but to make a splash in the industry, the tech must balance engineering, socio-economic and environmental trade-offs.

FluidLogic, a company that manufactures hydration/water systems primarily for motorsports drivers, has raised $15 million in a Series A

Sara Blackmer, NA&ME Alumnus, FluidLogic’s CEO and a senior partner at Solyco, estimated about 15% to 20% of professional motorsports drivers use FluidLogic, which connects to their vehicles and helmets

The GO Blue Center, a collaboration between the University of Michigan, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, is set to accelerate marine energy advancements and support the growth of the blue economy. According to the University of Michigan, the GO Blue Center aims to bridge gaps between academia, industry, and government in developing marine energy solutions.

The University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems (CSS) and U-M’s Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering have been awarded a $199,993 grant from the State of Michigan to develop a Michigan maritime strategy focused on climate action.

The crash of the Dali into the Francis Scott Key Bridge killed six people. The federal government says the owner and the operator were “grossly negligent” and “reckless.”

As part of KEI’s signature Ambassadors’ Dialogue tour, US Ambassador to the Republic of Korea Philip Goldberg and Korean Ambassador to the United States Cho Hyundong visited the state of Michigan for site visits to Korean-invested factories, meetings with state leaders, and engagements with students and educators at the University of Michigan.

Grant of nearly $200,000 administered by EGLE’s Office of the Great Lakes sets stage for climate action, environmental justice, sustainability

The University of Michigan Electric Boat student-led project team has a goal to design and engineer the fastest electric boat the world has seen, hoping to beat the American Power Boating Association …

Green hydrogen is emerging as an important potential solution for decarbonizing transportation, but new energy efficiency findings indicate that it should be used strategically in heavy-duty road, rail, aviation and marine transportation, a University of Michigan study shows.

Green hydrogen is emerging as an important potential solution for decarbonizing transportation, but new energy efficiency findings indicate that it should be used strategically in heavy-duty road, rail, aviation and marine transportation, a University of Michigan study shows.

Graduate Students and U.S. Coast Guard Lieutenents Trent Moon and Matthew Orgill have been published in the U.S. Naval Institute proceedings for their article written for their NA599 class on Autonomous Tech Use to Enable the Coast Guard

The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to supporting the entire American shipbuilding supply chain and enhancing the security of the global maritime environment through collaboration with our allies and partners.

The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to supporting the entire American shipbuilding supply chain and enhancing the security of the global maritime environment through collaboration with our allies and partners.

Shin Jong-gye technical adviser to HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), poses with U.S. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro, Senior Adviser to the Secretary of the Navy Steve Brock, and Jonathan Page, naval architecture and marine engineering professor at the University of Michigan, after signing a memorandum of understanding to nurture U.S. shipbuilding experts. HD Hyundai, the parent firm of HD KSOE, said Tuesday that it agreed with the University of Michigan and Seoul National University to jointly train marine engineers in the U.S. Courtesy of HD Hyundai

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced the Michigan Maritime Manufacturing Initiative (M3), a federal, state and local partnership to help rebuild the maritime industrial base workforce the Navy needs, July 22.

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration, the U.S. Navy, and the State of Michigan announced the Michigan Maritime Manufacturing (M3) initiative. M3 will build skilled workforce pipelines and programs to help meet our nation’s demand for over a hundred thousand new workers in the submarine and maritime industries over the next decade.

Shore power has become a major focus of the cruise industry’s sustainability efforts. Technology enabling ships to connect to landside electrical power has been added to many new and existing vessels in recent years. PortMiami, the world’s busiest cruise port, launched shore power in mid-June, with Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Conquest being the first ship to plug in there.

How will the marine industry, valued at approximately $108.4 billion in 2023, navigate the challenges posed by climate change?

Graham Sustainability Institute’s research team from the University of Michigan is to conduct a feasibility study off the coast of Beaver Island in Michigan, U.S., as part of an effort to explore the possibility of powering remote and underserved coastal communities with wave energy technology.

A new type of renewable energy is coming to Beaver Island. Engineering researchers from the University of Michigan will sometime within the next two years test various wave energy technologies in the water around remote Beaver Island in Lake Michigan.

The University of Michigan Electric Boat project team is preparing its new 22-foot Liberator Boats catamaran to compete at the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout in Central Missouri August 24-25.

Sitting down to discuss his four-year journey at the University of Michigan, senior infielder Trevor Kilinski could not help but chuckle to himself as he fielded a question he has faced countless times; what in the world was he studying?

Thomas McKenney, a University of Michigan professor of naval architecture and marine engineering, said the tragedy in Baltimore raises questions about whether most cargo ships have enough safeguards.

The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping has welcomed new, including University of Michigan, Maritime Research Alliance, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and World Maritime University, in a move to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between industry and academia.

The U.S. Office of Naval Research plans to build a new research center at the University of Michigan.

“We’re at an inflection point,” said Matthew Collette, a professor of naval architecture and marine engineering at the University of Michigan. “We’re going to see this coming very quickly to a larger number of ships.”

Three generations of Townsend men are behind CT Marine, the company that has designed every towboat on the Mississippi River more powerful than 6,600 hp. since 1988.

Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Carderock Division recognized Patrick Crowley with the Department of Navy Civilian Service Achievement Medal in West Bethesda, Maryland, on Jan. 24, 2024, for his contributions as the engineering lead for the Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) Unmanned Autonomous Prototype project.

Small gas bubbles that form and collapse in a liquid—a process known as cavitation—can cause big problems for equipment like ship propellers. Imploding bubbles create noise and vibration, interfering with acoustic sensors, and even erode metal over time. To predict cavitation, you have to account for nuclei. In the past, the fluids community treated nuclei empirically, entering the level determined from experimentation into calculations.