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28th October 2009 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology purchase another 2 academic licences, taking them to a total of 18

Commander Trent Gooding, United States Navy, Associate Professor

"The MIT Naval Construction and Engineering Program is currently integrating Paramarine into their ship design courses and projects. As an example, two of the current "year-long" design teams are using Paramarine to develop futuristic submarine concepts."

22nd October 2009 - German University Comes Onboard

The Fachhochschule Emden/Leer has now taken 11 licences of Paramarine, QinetiQ GRC’s naval architecture software suite. This sale will include training members of university staff and further re-enforces the commitment of GRC to introduce students to Paramarine with the intention to improve courses, student projects and their software knowledge when entering the workforce.

5th May 2009 - US Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) purchased 32 licenses of Paramarine for use in US academic universities and institutes

Universities include:

University of New Orleans
Virginia Tech
Florida Atlantic University
University of Michigan
Webb Institute
Stevens Institute of Technology
Georgia Tech
Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and the US Navy's Center for Innovation in Ship Design

Steve Ouimette, Director of Operations, CISD.

"Our young naval architects and engineers are quickly getting up to speed on Paramarine. It has a wide range of capability and shows great promise as a powerful analysis tool for developing and evaluating US Navy ship designs."

Launch of Paramarine V6.1
Paramarine V6.1 was released on the 18th March 2009

GRC has released the latest version of its Paramarine ship design software, Seagoing Paramarine and Seaweigh the onboard ship stability and structural assesment tool.





The recently released Paramarine V6.1 has a number of new features including:

• FORAN Interface
• Hypermesh Interface for rapid FEA model generation
• Damage Templates – enabling rapid definition of damaged stability cases
• FREDYN Interface – rapid generation of FREDYN mesh for hydrodynamic analysis
• Desktop Toolkit for Structural Definition – enabling rapid, rule based, structural definition
• Improved User Interface
• Excel Interface – embed your excel data within your Paramarine model

20th March 2009 - QinetiQ GRC designers reach finals of the World Superyacht Award - Young Designer of the Year competition
A team of three naval architects from QinetiQ GRC have been selected as one of five finalists in the World Superyacht Award - Young Designer of the Year 2009 - with a truly innovative trimaran design - EURYDICE.

Participating in QinetiQ GRC's graduate development scheme, Chris Burden, Julien Cuzon and Sophie Chudziak applied innovative thinking to develop the stunning design for EURYDICE [eur i dich-ee] - a mythological sea nymph. The creative solution was also produced using the QinetiQ GRC developed Paramarine software product to optimise and extend the concept into a fully analysed and balanced design.
World Superyacht awards
"The high standard of entries presented the judges with no easy task in selecting the finalists", stated Trevor Blakeley, Chief Executive of The Royal Institution of Naval Architects and chairman of the judging panel. "The judges were impressed by the effort and quality of work presented, reflecting the undoubted talent of today's young naval architects and marine designers, which surely bodes well for the future of the industry."

EURYDICE combines efficiency, comfort and elegance. The philosophy of the design is driven by these three themes and balances art with science. The idea of a trimaran/monohull hybrid is inspired by the pursuit of a low environmental impact yacht with large usable deck areas while maintaining comfort and aesthetics to the highest possible level.

"Our complex hull and design offers many advantages from structural strength, seakeeping, powering, endurance, and stability, through to increased upper deck space," explained Chris Burden, the EURYDICE team project manager. "We are thrilled to have got this far in the competition and prove our design prowess."
World Superyacht awards
QinetiQ GRC's Paramarine sofware package was used throughout the design process to exploit the advanced hull form generation technology and the full breadth of its integrated analysis capabilities. Paramarine is the world's only fully integrated design and analysis naval architecture product that can deal with the complexities of both military and civil ship and submarine design. Its integrated nature also allows concept designs to be rapidly developed, analysed and optimised to meet the complex requirements of modern designs, reducing both cost and risk.

This prestigious annual World Superyacht Award - Young Designer of the Year is organised by The Royal Institution of Naval Architects in association with Boat International, and sponsored by Camper & Nicholsons International. The overall winner will be announced at the awards ceremony in London in May.

You can find more details about the RINA / Young Designer of the Year competition at: http://www.rina.org.uk/worldsuperyachtaward
 
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