Applied Naval Architecture – Course Instructors
Prof. Jon Mikkelsen (Module: Ship Resistance)
Jon Mikkelsen is a Professor of Teaching of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He is the Director of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering established to support the shipbuilding industry in Canada. His teaching responsibilities include Naval Architecture, Engineering Design, and Marine Engineering. His scholarly and professional activities are primarily focused on the areas of Naval Architecture/Ocean Engineering, Sustainable Fishing Gear Design, and Engineering Education. Jon is active in several professional organizations and has recently served as technical chairperson of the Ocean, Offshore, and Arctic Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and has been elected as a Fellow of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Jon is a strong supporter of extra-curricular design activities and serves as faculty advisor for several UBC student teams including UBC Sailbot, UBC Supermileage, and UBC Human Powered Submarine Team.
Dr. Roger Basu (Module: Marine Environment)
Dr. Roger I. Basu is a structural engineer with more than 50 years’ experience working in the UK, Canada and the US. His early experience was in the structural design and analysis of buildings, bridges, and offshore structures. For the last 35 years his focus has been exclusively on ship and offshore structures. His experience includes work in specialist areas including vibrations, fatigue & fracture and risk and reliability.
Dan McGreer (Module: Ship Design Process)
Dan McGreer is a Professional Engineer in BC and an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia in the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME) program where he teaches courses on Ship Design. Before that Dan worked for over 30 years as a Principal Naval Architect at Vard Marine. He has been involved in all aspects of ship design such as preliminary concept development, contract design, ship performance assessment, computational fluid dynamics, marine system design and ship model testing and trials. Dan graduated in 1983 from the University of British Columbia in Mechanical Engineering with a Naval Architecture Option. Dan has worked on numerous ship design projects while at Vard Marine including managing the design of the Chilean Antarctic Vessel, the Canadian Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker, the Canadian Navy Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships, and the NZ Navy Offshore Patrol Vessels. Dan is also very active in the Association of BC Marine Industries (ABCMI) and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME). He is currently the President of ABCMI and Executive at-large for the Canadian Pacific Section of SNAME.
Darren Hass and Robert Gage (Module: Hydrostatics and Ship Stability)
Darren Hass joined Robert Allan Ltd. in 2000 after graduating from the University of British Columbia. Darren holds a B.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Naval Architecture. Over the last 23 years, Darren has worked on a variety of projects responsible for all aspects of naval architecture, machinery, propulsion and system design in new and existing vessels. Darren is currently a Project Director and is the Chair of Stability Group at the company. Darren is a registered Professional Engineer in BC and Alberta as well as a Transport Canada Appointed Tonnage Measurer.
Robert Gage joined Robert Allan Ltd in 2015 after graduating from the University of British Columbia with a Master of Engineering in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering as well as a B.A.Sc. in Integrated engineering. Robert is a Project Manager, and Team lead naval architect at Robert Allan Ltd. During his time with the company he has had extensive work in ship stability with expertise in GHS. Robert is responsible for overseeing work completed on the naval architecture design team, including hull form development, stability analysis, structural design, and parametric 3D modelling. He has particular interest in aesthetic design and unconventional hull forms, both of which he has used in his development of designs intended for use in the offshore wind industry. Robert also assists in business development and is a member of several technical groups within the office.
Dr. Claude Daley (Module: Ship Materials and Structures)
Dr. Claude Daley is currently a Professor in the Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering Program at Memorial University. He is Associate Dean for Research for the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. He is a former Chair of the Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering Program. He has led several large arctic shipping research projects at MUN, including the GEM and STePS2 projects. Dr. Daley has been working in the area of cold regions Engineering since 1979. He was awarded the Davidson Medal by the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in 2018. The Davidson Medal is awarded every two years, for outstanding contributions to ship research.
Matthew Partyka (Module: Ship Electrical Systems)
Matthew Partyka is Plan Approval Specialist and Electrotechnical Surveyor for Lloyd’s Register. He graduated from McMaster University with BTech Degree in Computing and Information Technology and from Lakehead University with BEng in Electrical engineering. Matthew has been working for Lloyd’s Register since 2013. During his career in Lloyd’s Register, he had moved from an assistant surveyor to surveyor, to senior surveyor and became a lead surveyor in 2022. Matthew has expertise in the Marine Electrotechnical field focusing on plan approval of electrical ship designs and essential component design review among others specializing in software for safety critical system, type approval, Cyber security, witnessing Factory Acceptance testing of electrical equipment and harbour sea trial commissioning. Matthew has worked on the IACS panel for Cyber Security, and has also published an article in SNAME MT magazine on marine Cyber Security.
Dr. Kevin McTaggart (Module: Maneuvering and Seakeeping)
Dr. Kevin McTaggart completed his doctorate in Civil Engineering in 1989, specializing in offshore hydrodynamics at University of British Columbia. He then commenced his career as a Defence Scientist with Defence Research and Development Canada in Halifax, where he leads the Performance Simulation Group. His areas of research include ship motions in waves, ship maneuvering, launch and recovery, and application of simulation to ship design and operation. He has served in leadership roles for development of international standards for ship seakeeping and maneuvering. He was elected as a SNAME Fellow in 2015. In 2023 he was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal in recognition of his contributions to Canada.
Dr. David Molyneux (Module: Ship Propulsion)
Dr. David Molyneux is an associate professor in the Department of Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering at Memorial University. Prior to that he spent over 30 years managing projects in public and private research organizations, with an emphasis on the performance of ships. This work routinely required carrying out model experiments and supervising full scale trials for ships. His work has covered predicting and optimizing the resistance and powering requirements of small boats, fishing boats, tugs, bulk carriers, tankers, warships, and icebreakers. He is a registered professional engineer (Newfoundland and Labrador) and he is currently Vice-President Americas for the Royal Institute of Naval Architects.