On Saturday, March 26^th, Webb students visited the famous New York Auto Show at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. The show, which has taken place annually since 1900, featured almost 1,000 cars. Some of the big reveals this year include the updated Nissan GT-R, the new Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, the Miata-based Fiat 124 Spider, and the Audi R8 Spyder. Other cars on display included an Acura NSX, two Koenigsegg hypercars (a One:1 and a Ragera), a Bugatti Veyron, a Viper ACR and a Ford GT (which was revealed at the same show the previous year). More low-profile reveals include Ford’s new F-series heavy duty trucks, a Lincoln Navigator concept, and the Alfa Romeo Guilia sedan. The students got the opportunity to see all of these, as well as sit in many of the cars, like the new Mazda Miata and the Dodge Challenger Hellcat. The Mercedes and Ford booths where particularly crowded, and the most popular cars on display where by far the Koenigsegg’s.

Alex Holt, an exchange student from Webb’s Southampton exchange program, got the opportunity to snap some fantastic photos of the cars on display. Also for Webb’s Marine Engineering-oriented students, engines with cross-sectional cuts were on display, like Ford’s “voodoo” mill, a 5.2-liter, flat plane crank v8 that powers the new Shelby GT350. Some modified cars were also on display on the lowest level, including Fast and Furious actor Sung Kang’s personal car and a wide-body Datsun 240z nick-named FuguZ.

Webb first appealed to me because of its practical confluence of math, science, and multi-disciplinary engineering. By the time I graduated in 2010, I was both deeply fascinated by the maritime industry as well as curious about what lay beyond it and what critical knowledge transfer was not making its way into or out of the industry’s scope.

I first explored the industry on a micro scale, simulating ship-wave interactions as a hydrodynamics engineer at Applied Physical Sciences. The problems we attacked were as focused as the vortex generation off a single skeg profile, and the applications of numerical methods and programming were engaging, extending on the math curriculum at Webb. A year later, I had the opportunity to study at MIT with Professor Hank Marcus ‘65 and switched gears to the macro scale, researching oil tanker markets and operations. Gaining a high-level perspective on the self-inflicted, high-risk cyclic nature of global shipping markets was eye-opening. In sum, both micro and macro were highly analytical and fulfilling, but left me conflicted about whether to pursue a career more grounded in physics or business. Read more…

Webb Institute, a four-year college specializing in naval architecture and marine engineering, proudly announces Barr Turner, Jr. as the fifth recipient of the annual American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) Scholarship.

The ABS Scholarship Program provides financial support to deserving engineering and naval architecture students based on GPA, class rank, leadership ability, and faculty recommendations. The scholarships are part of a broad program at ABS that supports students in the offshore oil and gas and maritime industries.  Each year, two Webb scholars, a junior and a senior, are the beneficiaries of a full-tuition scholarship and a $2,500 room-and-board stipend.  The students apply for the ABS award during their sophomore year, and each year one student is selected to receive the award spanning their junior and senior years of study.  Last year, Thomas. J. Brackin, Jr. was selected as the fourth recipient of the ABS Annual Scholarship. Read more…

Glen Cove, NY February 4, 2016 – Webb Institute’s Campaign Cabinet, led by President Keith Michel ’73 and Campaign Chair Joseph Cuneo ’57, is pleased to announce that $28 million (70%) of the $40 million goal has been raised to date in the Campaign for Webb.

The Campaign for Webb: America’s Most Unique College is the most ambitious fundraising effort in the institution’s history.  Through this effort, Webb plans to raise $40 million to enhance the college’s programs, infrastructure, and financial resources to meet the growing challenges of an expanding marine industry.

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Dr. Alfred Zeien endowed the Zeien Lecture Series in 2000 with the goal of broadening student life by bringing to Webb speakers on a wide variety of topics.  Webb trustee Chris Wiernicki will present the 21st Zeien lecture on May 18th in the Henry Auditorium at Webb Institute.

Chris’ father, John Wiernicki, a Polish resistance fighter captured by the Nazis, was incarcerated in the Auschwitz concentration camp and later Buchenwald.  While on a forced march to yet another camp during the latter days of the war, he escaped and was rescued by the advancing American troops.  He later documented his experiences through a series of watercolor paintings and in a personal narrative, “Shadow of Auschwitz, Memoirs of a Polish Resistance Fighter and Survivor of Death Camps”. This book is available on Amazon.

At this Zeien Lecture, Chris will present some of his father’s watercolors and give personal insights into this extraordinary story.

Check back for more information as it becomes available.

Additional information about the Zeien Lecture Series is available online.