PEP Talk: Mandles Prize for Hydrofoil Excellence – 2025

Overview:

The International Hydrofoil Society is pleased to announce that thanks to the continued generosity of Mr. Martinn Mandles, a long-time member of IHS and his wife Connie, we will once again sponsor The IHS Mandles Prize for Hydrofoil Excellence competition. The competition, now entering its 12th year, includes up to $4,500 annually in IHS hydrofoil achievement prizes for students, with a $2,500 First Prize and up to two $1,000 Honorable Mention awards. This is an outstanding opportunity for the next generation of hydrofoil developers to be acknowledged for their efforts to advance the state of the art in hydrofoil and hydrofoil-assisted craft engineering, design and construction. Rules for the competition can be downloaded from the IHS website (www.foils.org).

You can preview the deck here: Mandles Hydrofoil Prize deck Aug. 2024

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Principle Objectives of Mandles Prize:

To promote hydrofoil engineering technology.
To increase the participating students’ understanding of and competence in ship and craft engineering and design.
To stimulate interest in hydrofoils and hydrofoil-assisted ship and craft engineering, design and construction as a career choice.

The 2025 Mandles Prize Announcement and Rules are at:

This competition is about marine vessels utilizing hydrofoils to produce substantial lift relative to vessel displacement via dynamic forces and their subsystems and components that are specific to hydrofoil craft. The webinar will be recorded and available for three weeks after the live presentation on October 21. This webinar is worth no PDH.

Date & Time: October 21th, 2024; 1300-1400 ET (Presentation with live Q&A discussion)
Audience: All engineers, program managers, and students interested in ethical engineering.
Virtual Course Format: This presentation and discussion will occur in Microsoft Teams. If you do not have Teams, you will be able to view this event in your browser.
Enrollment Fee: FREE!
Professional Development Hours: 0 Hours

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Presenter's Biography

Mr. Mark Bebar

Vice-President, International Hydrofoil Society (IHS)

B.S. , Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering – Webb Institute of Naval Architecture (1970)
M.S., Ocean Engineering – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1973)
U.S. Navy Department (1970 – 2003) – Naval Ship Engineering Center (NAVSEC) and Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)
Patrol Hydrofoil-Missile (PHM) Concept Studies/PHM-3 Series Follow-Ship Design Integration Manager (1971 – 1972/1975 – 1978)
Preliminary/Contract Design: AO-177 Fleet Oiler (1973 – 1974), ARS-50 Salvage Ship (1979-1981)
High Speed Sealift Action Officer Group Coordinator (2010-2014)
Force Architecture/Ship Concept Studies Support – Navy Warfare Development Command (NWDC) and CNO Strategic Studies Group (SSG): 1998 – 2002
Chairman – NATO Naval Group 6 [NG/6] on Ship Design: 1996 – 2002
Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) and CACI – Professional Adviser (2003 – present)

Factors for Judging

Technical Content (65 points)

Background, sources, references
Understanding of subject and material
Breadth and depth of analysis
Systems engineering approach
Valid theories and reasoning
Appropriate methods and their application
Appropriate use of figures and tables
Interpretation of results
Handling of uncertainties, risks, negative factors
Appropriateness and clarity of conclusions

Documentation (15 points)

Organization
Completeness and clarity of writing
Well-executed figures and tables

Other Factors (20 points)

Degree to which the paper is directly about hydrofoils*
Magnitude, complexity and difficulty of the project
Originality and innovativeness
Value to other or future technologists and designers

*This competition is about marine vessels utilizing hydrofoils to produce substantial lift relative to vessel displacement via dynamic forces and their subsystems and components that are specific to hydrofoil craft.

Martinn Mandles' Biography

Martinn Mandles started as a hydroplane racer in high school and became both an airplane and hydrofoil “pilot” before earning an engineering degree from Stanford University in 1964. As such, he was the first co-pilot of Boeing’s Aqua-Jet hydrofoil research hydroplane, and on the first flight crew of the Boeing built FRESH-1 high-speed research hydrofoil. Upon his return from Vietnam in 1967, Mr. Mandles became the Navy’s first captain of Boeing’s first hydrofoil gunboat, PGH 2, USS Tucumcari. After completing five years of military service in 1969, he commenced a 37-year career at ABM Industries (NYSE:ABM), where he was Chairman of the Board from 1997-2006.

An accomplished aviator and avid adventurer, Martinn was the first non-NASA American pilot to graduate from the Russian Cosmonaut Basic Training Program at Star City near Moscow, and has visited both the North and South Poles, as well as the North Face Base Camp of Mt. Everest in Tibet and countless other challenging destinations worldwide. Two of these adventures are illustrated here.

IHS member Martinn and his wife Connie reside in Los Angeles, where he now serves as an executor and trustee of several major trusts.