ISSC Meeting and Visit to Research and Educational Institutions in Korea and Singapore.

背景：航运和离岸行业在贸易增长和新订单增加方面都在蓬勃发展。这导致船舶和海洋结构领域对设计工程师的需求增加，他们可以设计新船，也可以评估现有船舶和FPSO。近几十年来，英国作为海事服务中心继续引领世界，船级社，船舶经纪，教育，咨询等都结合起来，形成了最大的海事服务集群，总部设在伦敦。这一优势历来植根于强大的航运业以及所提供的技能和经验。为了保持这一地位，欧洲造船业必须具有创新性、竞争力和可持续性。i）参加ISSC 2009年8月16日至20日在首尔举行的第17届国际船舶与海洋结构大会（第17届国际船舶与海洋结构大会），为此，我应英国常务委员会代表的邀请ii）访问韩国釜山国立大学（PNU），讨论联合研究船舶和海洋结构物极限状态和基于风险的方法的可能性iii）访问新加坡国立大学和南洋理工大学在新加坡讨论研究和开发专业课程/研讨会，并参与未来课程的联合教学和推广。iv）参观吉宝海洋与船舶技术中心，了解该中心的研发活动。

Background: The Shipping and offshore industry is thriving both in term of increase in trade as well as with increase in new orders. This has led to an increase in the demand of design engineers in the field of Ship and Offshore Structures, who can design new ships and also assess existing ships and FPSOs. In recent decades Britain has continued to lead the world as a maritime services centre, classification societies, ship broking, education, consultancy and others all combining to form the largest maritime services cluster, based in the City of London. This strength has historically been rooted in a strong shipping industry and the skills and experience that provides. To maintain this position the European shipbuilding industry has to be innovative, competitive and sustainableVisit Programme: The aims of the visit are as follows:i) to attend ISSC (17th International Ship & Offshore Structure Congress) meeting at Seoul during 16-20 August 2009, for which I am invited by the UK Standing Committee Representativeii) to visit Pusan National University (PNU), Korea, to discuss the possibility of joint research on limit states and risk based approach of ships and offshore structuresiii) to visit National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to discuss research and to develop professional courses/workshops in Singapore and participation in joint teaching and promotion of the proposed future courses.iv) To visit Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology to see the R & D activities of the centre.