View Important System Requirements for viewing this course. The domestic and international supply chains require naval architects, port engineers, and navigation engineers work together to provide the essential assets necessary for waterborne commerce. Navigation engineering is a civil engineering specialty that connects open ocean areas with coastal and river terminals and involves the life-cycle planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of safe, secure, reliable, efficient, and environmentally sustainable navigable waterways (channels, structures, and support systems) used to move people and goods by waterborne vessels. Although navigation infrastructure engineering practices began centuries ago in collaboration with development in naval architecture and port infrastructure, today's maritime professionals must think beyond channels, bulkheads and breakwaters. Modern practice must consider factors from many existing fields related to waterway navigation, ports and business activities integrating them into one specific discipline that supports the United States Marine Transportation System (MTS). Two key issues have evolved that require special consideration by today's engineers: sustainability and resilience. Neither issue is well-understood or easily characterized and measured. Nevertheless, engineers must find ways to incorporate these aspects into their designs for new coastal structures and port facilities. Hurricane Sandy closed the Port of New York and New Jersey for over a wekk. How could this be avoided in the future? How can navigation engineers assist in the recovery of the maritime supply chair? The importance of the MTS cannot be overstated with respect to our national economic security and defense. Despite growth in other modes of domestic and international transportation and in global communications, the nation's ports and waterways remain the critical backbone of our economy strength and national defense capabilities. Consider that in the United States: This webinar presents many of the challenges currently facing navigation engineering practice and considers courses of action for practitioners. Topics include discussions of new technology tools and their integration into the navigation engineer's toolbox, incorporation of sustainability principles, establishing resiliency protocol, maritime security implications for design and practice, and consideration of how navigation infrastructure redesign might contribute to sustainability by reducing energy demands associated with vessel movements and waterway maintenance. The webinar will be beneficial to those who work in the maritime commerce private sector, engineers in the Corps of Engineers, USCG, NOAA, and other government agencies involved with navigation engineering, and also to those who advise these organizations, such as environmentalist, attorneys, business consultants and technologists. The discussion, though technical, involves no equations. Non-engineers can follow the material.
INSTRUCTOR: Thomas Wakeman M.ASCE
Course Length: 1 Hour
Sponsored by ASCE's Coastal, Oceans, Ports & Rivers Institute and ASCE Continuing Education.
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