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ANAME Election 2024 Notice

October 7, 2024 – Reston, Va. – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Zarem Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Achievement:

Mohammed Abir Mahdi and Shafi Romeo, Oklahoma State University, won the astronautics award for their paper, “Convolutional Neural Network and Homogenization based Hybrid Approach for Lattice Structures.” Mahdi and Romeo will present their paper at the 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Milan, Italy, 14–18 October 2024. The winners will receive their awards at the 2025 AIAA SciTech Forum, Orlando, Florida, 6–10 January 2025.

This award was established by AIAA Honorary Fellow Abe Zarem, founder and managing director of Frontier Associates, to annually recognize graduate students in aeronautics and astronautics who have demonstrated outstanding scholarship in their field.

• Mohammed Abir Mahdi, Oklahoma State University, Astronautics Award (Co-Recipient)
  Mahdi is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Purdue University’s School of Mechanical Engineering. He recently completed his master’s in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Oklahoma State University. Mahdi’s research focuses on composite manufacturing and the design of lattice structures. He holds a bachelor’s in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Prior to his graduate studies, Mahdi worked as a lecturer at MAS Marine Academy in Bangladesh, gaining expertise in naval structure design and analysis. He is passionate about teaching and inspiring students in the field of science and technology. “Receiving this award makes the nights, days, and sacrifices for this novel work feel truly worthwhile,” said Mahdi.

  
  

  Source:  https://bit.ly/3ZSW6OW

• Winners of Student Ferry Design Contest Announced

   August 5, 2024

  

  The first-place award winning design (Image: WFSA)

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  The Worldwide Ferry Safety Association (WFSA) announced the awardees for the 11th Annual Student Competition for a Safe Affordable Ferry. Winning teams receive monetary awards and are invited to speak about their work at an international conference; this year- the venue will be Interferry’s 48th annual conference, to be held in Marrakesh on October 28-29, 2024. 

  For this year's WFSA competition, the Terms of Reference (TOR) called for a RoPax vessel to accommodate 150-200 passengers, as well as space for cargo and 15-20 four-wheeler vehicles, which could include lorries and trucks. The vessel is intended to ply a shallow-drafted stretch of the Niger River in southern Nigeria’s Anambra State, from Onitsha Jetty to Idah Jetty and from Onitsha Jetty to Ndoni Jetty.  

  The first-place award winning team from Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, ITS Surabaya, designed an aluminum catamaran powered by CNG with alternative power sources including solar and batteries.  The vessel is 50 m in length with a displacement of 209.6 tons with an estimated cost of $2.7 million.*
  

  The second-place award winning team is from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in Dhaka.  The design is for an aluminum catamaran hull, 40m length, 142 tons would cost around $0.8 million.  The main fuel is CNG to run the electric motor, with solar power supplements.  Judges considered the concept of a tiltable propeller system as brilliant and the hydrokinetic turbine as interesting.  
  

  
  

  The second-place award winning design (Image: WFSA)
  

  The third-place award winning team is from Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta.  Their steel barge hull design with the precut fabrication technique clearly reduces the cost of production, estimated at $1.5 million.  The vessel is powered by diesel-CNG with solar power supplement.  There would be fore and aft loading. The tilt up thrustmaster is good for maintenance and repair.

  

  The third-place award winning design (Image: WFSA)
  

Source: https://www.marinelink.com/news/winners-student-ferry-design-contest-515692

Also published in BUET Shangbadik Somity's Facebook https://www.facebook.com/buetshangbadikshomiti

The 14th International Conference on Marine Technology was held in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Three BUET faculties attended the meeting as Committee member, Session Chair, presenter etc. and a number of NAME students presented their papers online.

Conference Website: https://www.research.utm.my/mtc/martec-2024/

Team Black Pearl, consisting of eleven students from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, received Honorable Mention in "The International Student Design Competition for A Safe and Affordable Ferry 2023". Twenty-two teams worldwide entered the competition, organized by the Worldwide Ferry Safety Association (WFSA), USA. First place went to the University of Applied Sciences Bremen, Germany; second place was achieved by the University of Rostock, Germany, and third place to the Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS), Surabaya, Indonesia. WFSA is a US-based organization that aims to reduce ferry fatalities and increase the use of safer ferries worldwide. The objective of the International Student Design Competition is to encourage Naval Architecture students to design safer and more affordable ferries with indigenous knowledge. From Bangladesh's perspective, ferry safety is of great concern. An improved design concept could boost the maritime sector contributing to national development by helping marginalized populations with their transportation demands. The result of this student design competition reflects the bright prospects of the designers among Bangladeshi students. In the practical field, these designers can play an essential role in building safe maritime transportation for Bangladesh

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Amanat Hossain Emon has participated Madrid WUDC 2023  (World Universities Debating Championship).

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Dr. Kamruzzaman, a former faculty of Dept. of NAME, BUET has been elected Chairman for the IACS Survey Panel by direct voting of ABS, BV, CCS, CRS, DNV,  IRS, KRS, LR , NK, PRS, RINA. HE will start HIS tenure from January 2023  for next 3 years but will participate IACS’ meetings as incoming Survey Panel Chair until December this year.

This is the first time when someone of South Asian origin is taking Charge of IACS Survey Panel.

13^th International Conference on Marine Technology (MARTEC 2022) will be held on 21-22 December 2022 at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh.

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