AIChE National Capital Section NSWC/Carderock Visit

Thursday, April 30, 2015 -- AIChE National Capital Section NSWC/Carderock Visit

Where: US Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock, Potomac, Maryland

Cost: Free

When: Tour will start from the Visitor Center at 12noon, April 30 (Thursday). The tour will end and the group will be discharged at 2:30pm.

Check-in & Parking: Please bring a government issued ID (driver's license or passport; a student ID will not do). After checking in at the Visitor Center, you will be directed to park not in the Visitor Center parking lot but within the base. After parking within the base, you will walk back and meet at the Visitor Center to start the tour as a group. Each driver must bring vehicle registration and proof of insurance (due to parking on the base).

Advance Registration Required. Open to everyone. Please RSVP at www.ncsnavaltour.eventbrite.com by Thursday April 23. US Citizenship is not required; however, if you are a non-US citizen, please register ASAP, to allow NSWC to process extra paperwork in a timely manner.

About the Tour (copied from www.navsea.navy.mil/nswc/carderock)
"Carderock is the Navy's center of excellence for ships and ship systems. For over 100 years, Carderock has helped preserve and enhance the nation's presence on and under the seas. Carderock is the full-spectrum research and development, test and evaluation, engineering, and Fleet support organization for the Navy's ships, submarine, military watercraft, and unmanned vehicles."

"Carderock specializes in Ship Design & Integration; Environmental Quality Systems; Hull Forms & Propulsors; Structures and Materials; Signatures, Silencing Systems, and Susceptibility; Machinery Systems; and Vulnerability and Survivability Systems. The Division's expertise spans more than 40 disciplines, from electrical and mechanical engineering to computer engineering and physics."

"The tour covers the fascinating 100 year history of the Carderock Division and includes visits to various large testing facilities, many of which are unique, including the David Taylor Model Basin, Circulating Water Channel, Rotating Arm, and the Maneuvering and Seakeeping Basin, in addition the model shop where precise scale models of all Navy ships and submarines, (some as long as 40 feet) are constructed for testing in the basins."

Carderock employs a number of chemical engineers as well, and we will also learn about chemical engineers' fascinating contributions to naval ships. For example, our host Dr. Daphne Fuentevilla, an alum of the University of Maryland, College Park, works in batteries at Carderock.