This page is intended to showcase the courses I teach at both undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as to provide some teaching materials.
The course program covers the fundamentals and techniques of project management, focusing on specific aspects of ship design. In the first part of the course, students practice their skills in conceptual design by constructing a structure using pasta and hot glue. A classroom competition is held to determine the structure with the highest load-carrying capacity relative to its structural weight.
In the second part, students develop the concept for a human-propelled boat. Disciplines involved include structural mechanics, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, and project management. Finally, students construct their boats and participate in a competition featuring speed and maneuverability tests, as well as a regatta.
This is a short video of the 2023 competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za16gcpfjCQ
The learning objectives of this course are to:
• Discuss the significance of identifying optimal solutions in engineering systems.
• Highlight the necessity of constructing a mathematical model to facilitate the search for optimal solutions.
• Provide key guidelines for developing the mathematical model.
• Explore both linear and nonlinear techniques for solving the mathematical model.
• Applications include production, management, transport and logistics, structural optimization and hydrostatics.
Material soon to be added!
