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Professor Gregory J. White, Ph.D.

Professor Gregory White

Director of Naval Architecture

Professor

 

Department of  Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering
US Naval Academy, Mail Stop 11d
590 Holloway Road
Annapolis, MD 21402-5042

Phone: 410-293-5101

Fax: 410-293-2219

E-mail: greg@usna.edu

Office: Rickover 48B

Education:

  • Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Structures Division), December 1986, University of Maryland, College Park.
  • M.E. in Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering, December, 1981, University of California, Berkeley.
  • B.S. in Engineering Science, cum laude (Engineering Mechanics), May 1975, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Professional Experience:

  • Aug 1994 to Present - Professor of Naval Architecture, Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean, and Marine Engineering , U.S. Naval Academy
  • Aug 1988 to August 1994 - Associate Professor of Naval Architecture, Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean, and Marine Engineering , U.S. Naval Academy
  • Aug 1983 to Aug 1988 - Assistant Professor of Naval Architecture, Naval Systems Engineering Dept., U.S. Naval Academy
  • Oct 1981 to Aug 1983 - Project Engineer, Research and Development Division, Tanker Department, EXXON International Company, Florham Park, New Jersey
  • June 1981 to Oct 1981 - Consulting Engineer, Ship Research Inc., Kensington, California
  • Dec 1979 to June 1981 - Naval Architect, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California
  • May 1975 to June 1979 - Surface Line Officer (1110), U.S. Navy, San Diego, California

Scholarships and Honors

  • NROTC Scholarship (four year) to Vanderbilt University, Dean's List, 1972, 1974, 1975 (Undergraduate)
  • Awarded the Morris Guralnick Assoc. Fellowship for Naval Architecture for the academic year 1980-1981
  • Awarded the annual Graduate Paper Honor Prize for 1980-1981 by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, November 1981
  • Awarded the annual "Jimmi" Hamilton Award for the best paper to appear in the Naval Engineers Journal in 1985 by The American Society of Naval Engineers, May 1985.
  • USNA Visiting Professor at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, England for academic year 1989-1990.

Recent Publications:

Hughes, O.F., Nikolaids, E., Ayyub, B.A., White, G.J., and Hess, P., "Uncertainty in Strength Models of Marine Structures," Ship Structures Committee Report, SSC-388, August, 1994.

White, G.J., B.M. Ayyub, E. Nikolaidis, and O.F. Hughes,"Chapter 24: Applications in Ship Structures," Probabilistic Structural Mechanics Handbook, Ed. C. Sundararajan, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1995, 575-607.

White, G.J., Vroman, R.H., Kihl, D., and S.E. Mouring, "An Experimental Investigation of the Ultimate Strength of Stiffened Panels," USNA Division of Engineering and Weapons Report No. EW-015-96, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, July 1996; Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Report NSWCCD-TR-65-97/18, April, 1997.

Ayyub, B.M., White, G.J., Mansour, A.E., and P.H. Wirsching, "Probability Based Design Requirements for Unstiffened Panels in Ship Structures," 7th ASCE Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, Worcester, MA., August 7-9, 1996.

White, G.J., Ayyub, B.M., Mansour, A.E., and P.H. Wirsching, "Probability Based Design Requirements for Longitudinally Stiffened Panels in Ship Structures," 7th ASCE Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, Worcester, MA., August 7-9, 1996.

Mansour, A.E., Ayyub, B.M., White, G.J., and P.H. Wirsching, "Probability-Based Ship Design - Implementation of Design Guidelines for Ships," Ship Structure Committee Report No. SSC-392, October, 1996.

Roberts, J.C., Bao, G., and G.J. White, "Experimental, Numerical and Analytical Results for Bending and Buckling of Rectangular Orthotropic Plate," submitted to Composit Structures, 1997.

Roberts, J.C. and G.J. White, "Experimental Results in Bending and Buckling of Rectangular Orthotropic Composit Panels," submitted to Journal of Ship Research, SNAME, 1997.

Courses Taught

EN 200 - Naval Engineering I 
EN 245A - Principles of Ocean Systems Engineering 
EN 382 - Ocean Materials Science & Engineering 
EN 358 - Ship Structures 
EN 452 - Structural Reliability 
EN 456 - Advanced Methods in Ship Design 
EN 461 - Ocean Systems Engineering Design I

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