Zeien Lecture : Mike Petters
Mr. Mike Petters of Huntington Ingalls Industries Presents Career Advice
By Richard Harris
Director & Professor of Humanities/ Assistant Dean
Mr. Mike Petters, President and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, was the seventeenth speaker in Webb Institute’s Alfred M. Zeien Lecture Series.
Webb Appoints New Director of Research
Webb is proud to announce that Dr. Richard A. Royce, Webb’s James J. Henry Professor of Naval Architecture, has been appointed as Director of Research at Webb.
During the upcoming months, Prof. Royce will work with faculty and the Board of Trustees to develop a plan to facilitate more research on campus.
Webb Welcomes John Daidola
Webb Institute is pleased to announce John C. Daidola as the Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering. Dr. Daidola is a structural engineer with over forty-years of experience. His early experience was as Design Engineer at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company and as Chief Naval Architect at Storm-Master Boat Corporation. He was employed for 28 years at M. Rosenblatt & Son, Inc., where he worked as Senior Vice President and Engineering Branch Manager. For the last fifteen years he worked at AMSEC LLC, serving as Senior Vice President and Commercial Operations Manager. Read more…
Read Our Student First-Hand Winter Work Experiences 2015
See Where the Webbies are working this winter!
Our Winter Work internship program, allows students to gain hands-on experience working in shipyards, aboard ships, and design offices throughout the world during January and February. Below are the first-hand accounts of our students’ Winter Work experience.
Webb Alumni Fund Update
Webb alumni celebrated Webb’s 125th Anniversary with a very impressive, record-breaking year. Total contributions in the 2013-14 Webb Alumni Fund (WAF) amounted to $1,331,707 – a 6.8% increase over the previous year, and 3.6% over our 2013-14 goal.
The average gift increased to $1,721 (up 3.3%), the median gift increased to $650 from $525, the number of alumni in the William H. Webb (WHW) Society (contributors of $1,000 or more) increased to 346 (from 311), and of those, the number contributing $10,000 or more increased to 31 (from 27). Read more…