Recent graduates win international awards in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

NEW LONDON, Conn. – Five recent graduates of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy here are winners of two awards to be presented in Houston today.

U.S. Coast Guard Ensign Brian Bonomi won the Society of Naval Architect and Marine Engineer Undergraduate Paper Award for his paper on corrosion research.

The paper was written during Bonomi’s senior year at the academy when he researched corrosion on Coast Guard cutters. Corrosion is a growing and expensive problem that plagues the aging Coast Guard fleet leading to costly repairs and loss of operational days. During high-tempo operations, often times long-term maintenance issues such as corrosion can be overlooked because of more pressing operational concerns. Bonomi designed and executed a series of experiments to look at various coatings and converters to help reduce the rate of corrosion while underway.

U.S. Coast Guard Ensigns Daniel Burke, Nicholas Sapiano, Bennington McElry and Kyle Stubbs placed third in the SNAME Lisnyk Student Ship Design Competition for their Wind Turbine Support Vessel design. The design was completed as a capstone project for their senior year at the academy as part of a requirement for their Bachelor’s Degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. The student design teams receive direction and support from academy faculty, the Coast Guard’s Marine Safety Center and practicing naval architects from The Glosten Associates.

These competitions are intended to challenge student teams to design theoretical but practical cutting-edge vessels and draw multiple student designs from more than a half dozen universities around the world.

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