• Cyber Monday Deal
• Combat Systems Symposium
• Captivating Read: Member of the Month

Open Call for Papers

Have a paper you want to submit and present at a symposium? Check out the below opportunities to participate.

MegaRust 2017
June 20-22, 2017
Newport News, VA
Abstract deadline: March 3, 2017

Upcoming Education

Electrical Power Basics
Number of PDH's: 4
December 12, 2016
Alexandria, VA

Introduction to Power Electronics
Number of PDH's: 4
December 12, 2016
Alexandria, VA

Upcoming Events

Combat Systems Symposium
December 6-7, 2016
Washington, DC

Technology, Systems, and Ships; ASNE Day 2017
February 14-16, 2017
Arlington, VA

Intelligent Ships Symposium XII
May 24-25, 2017
Philadelphia, PA

MegaRust 2017
June 20-22, 2017
Newport News, VA

Naval Future Force Science & Technology (S&T) Expo
July 20-21, 2017
Washington, DC

Technology, Systems, and Ships; ASNE Day 2018
February 13-15, 2018
Arlington, VA

Job Board

Did you know you can post available positions, including internships, on our newly launched Job Board?

Current Positions Available:

Professor of NA/ME/OE
Glen Cove, NY

Assistant Professor of Engineering
Castine, ME

Engineering Adjunct Instructors
Castine, ME

ASNE Weekly Newsletter

November 22, 2016

ASNE Presents Technology, Systems & Ships (TSS) 2017

February 14-16, 2017

Hyatt Regency Crystal City, VA

On Monday, November 28th register for ASNE Presents Technology, Systems & Ships (TSS) 2017. Our lowest published rates of the season are happening NOW!

• Registrant- $100 off* of early bird rates! Use appeal code: TSS17-CYBERMONDAY

Did you miss your chance to sign up for for an exhibit booth or sponsorship at the VIP reception last month? No worries, we’re bringing back our special event VIP rates in celebration of Cyber Monday. Don’t miss the boat again, sign up NOW! More information on exhibits and sponsorship is available online at: http://www.navalengineers.org/Symposia/TSS-2017-formerly-ASNE-Day/Exhibits-and-Sponsorship or contact exhibits@navalengineers.org.

• Exhibits - $250 off any booth, use appeal code: TSS17-CYBERMONDAY
• Sponsorship - 10% off available sponsorships! Use appeal code: TSS17-CYBERMONDAY

Invited speakers include:

• VADM Thomas Moore, USN; NAVSEA
• VADM David Johnson, USN; Principal Military Deputy, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition
• VADM Paul A Grosklags, USN; Commander, Naval Air Systems Command
• RADM Jonathan Yuen, USN; Commander, Naval Supply Systems Command
• RADM Michael E. Jabaley, USN; PEO Subs
• RADM Brian Antonio, USN; PEO Carriers
• RADM John P. Neagley, USN; PEO LCS
• RDML William J. Galinis, USN; PEO Ships (confirmed)
• RDML Jim Downey, USN; Commander, Navy Regional Maintenance Center
• RDML Jon A. Hill, USN; MDA Deputy Director (sel.) (confirmed)

*excludes government registration

Combat Systems Symposium

Combat Systems Symposium- REGISTER NOW!

Strengthening Naval Power from the Sea: Combat Systems Lines of Effort for Maintaining Maritime Superiority

Washington Navy Yard Catering & Conference Center

December 6 – 7, 2016

Join leaders in the Combat System arena for this one of a kind two-day event that will address matters of national security. The program aims to join the Navy, Industry and Academia under one roof to discuss:

• STRENGTHEN NAVAL POWER AT AND FROM SEA
• ACHIEVE HIGH VELOCITY LEARNING AT EVERY LEVEL
• STRENGTHEN OUR NAVY TEAM FOR THE FUTURE
• EXPAND AND STRENGTHEN OUR NETWORK OF PARTNERS

View the full agenda here. If you do not have access to the Navy Yard you must visit the Washington Navy Yard security office and apply for temporary access. This process can be time consuming, so please consider doing so the day before the event. ASNE is not responsible for attendees that do not get approved for the event. We will make every effort to assist in this process, but Washington Navy Yard is an active Naval facility with stringent security processes.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity, register NOW to secure your spot.

Member of the Month

The astute reader may have noticed that we recently rolled out a new lifetime membership option. CAPT Johnny Walker, USN (Ret.) of Thor Solutions is amongst the first to take advantage of this new membership offering and is our November Member of the Month! Membership manager Michelle Redmon recently caught up with him, and trust us, you want to read this interview!

Michelle: What got you into Naval Engineering? (What specific event or moment)

CAPT Walker: As Engineering Officer of the Watch and Main Propulsion Assistant in USS OLDENDORF (DD 972).

We’d lost all main propulsion and electrical power on a cruel stormy night in the South China Sea; we lost everything, including the Engineering Control & Surveillance System (ECSS), the brain of the entire engineering plant and the system from where the casualty had cascaded. In sum, we couldn’t restart a generator or main engines without ECSS - we were quite literally, dead the water.

Thinking back to that long night, now more than 30 years ago, the ship pitched and rolled brutally in a heavy sea; yet, without the constant machinery nose, it seemed eerily quiet – the entire crew was anxious (understatement), we’d been cold iron for a well more than hour before we figured out what went wrong and what to do. To start with we needed to re-load the ECSS software, a numerical control program with its code stored as punched holes on a one inch-wide, mile-long mylar tape, mounted in a plastic cartage like a huge VHS tape. We had 40 minutes of battery backup power to run all the control consoles including the optical tape reader (mounted on the side of the propulsion console). Once the ECSS cartage was inserted, it took 25minutes to load the program with an automatic pass/ fail parity check at the end – we had one shot. The tape buzzed and whorled as it loaded, the eyes of 20+ watch standers and off watch engineering department sailors (who by then accumulated in main control), stared at this thing, nobody said a word. With a single pop-click noise, the tape stopped – for a few seconds the small indicator lights on the optical reader flickered as the system went through its parity check – the lights suddenly stopped – all red – the load failed. We only had 15 minutes of battery power left to do a 25-minute program load, all remained motionless. In an instant an idea came, I slowly walked over and started shutting down the other consoles, one by one – Damage Control Console, the Fuel Control Console… (while simultaneously regretting not ordering this done as the EOOW in the first place). Before I got to the Electrical Plant Control Console (EPCC), the watch team had shaken off its funk and started to move out on their own in shutting down the EPCC and alarm panels that fed off our precious backup power – at the time I wasn’t even sure this trick would work. However, in less than a minute we had enough battery power, enough time to do another ECSS re-load. Within a half hour, with the second ECSS parity check passed, we’d re-started the first generator… then a another…soon the main engines were back online – and we were happily (and plenty relieved), to be again underway. Exhausted sailors who’d gotten up on their own in the middle of the night to help where they could, returned to their racks - things settled down to the normal watch routine. I thought to myself this ship’s engineering plant wasn’t just a sophisticated machine – it was alive, it had a personality – and a personality just like our family’s old champion mare, “Happy Samson.” (Most people don’t know a race horse has to be trained every day). As for Happy - If you were good to her, she was good to you – she was like riding a rocket – cranky, completely mean to the bone when treated with anything but the deftest gentility…she never suffered fools… but when the love was laid on, she never disappointed at the track. DD-972 / “Oly’s” plant was like Happy – she’d gotten doggone mean from our riding her hard and putting her away wet, we weren’t showing her the love. We’d unknowingly slowly cooked the insulation on some ECSS data cables that ran near #2 waste heat boiler, damage to the cables came from heat exposure caused by deteriorated lagging around the boiler – stray voltages from the cracked / cooked insulation sent bad ECSS data signals up and down to ECSS’s fragile transistor based processor and memory – shutting ECSS down hard. The boiler lagging seemed like a small problem, always a lower on the priority list. But Oly was mad – and she let us know it – believe me, we started showing her the respect she deserved; we counted on her to take us into harm’s way and back – she needed to count on us - she’d given us a second chance on that frightening night in the South China sea – I became the diligent race horse trainer again, but this time it was with ships - I was hooked on Naval Engineering.

Michelle: What is a fun fact most people don't know about you?

CAPT Walker: Like most Okie’s, I love to noodle catfish; just wish I had more time and opportunity for this (sometimes) extreme sport!

Michelle: What is one engineer/scientist/ or mathematician dead or alive would you like to meet?

CAPT Walker: Benjamin Franklin – scientist, innovator and the ultimate practical inventor.

Michelle: If you could engineer your perfect concession stand/food truck, what would it be?

CAPT Walker: I’d take the 1964 Lincoln Continental (from the “Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen – Country Casanova” album cover), cut off the hard top and build an enclosed kitchen on the back; make it a mobile (American) Indian taco stand – a fave cuisine where I’m from – only place I know you can get an Indian taco (albeit middle of the road), is at the chow hall in the National Museum of the American Indian…so, abundant business growth opportunity!

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