Event Details
Going to Sea... An Engineer's Perspective
Presenter: Dr. Lucie Pautet Associate Director of Engineering Neptune Canada
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Date: Thu, November 18, 2010
Time: 14:30:00 - 15:30:00
Place: ECS 123
ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT
Going to sea is about passion. The first reason to choose a career that will take you to sea is first and foremost the love of the sea. If you've watched the old Jacques Cousteau's movies, you may have realized how incredible and fragile the undersea world is. What you may not have fully measured is that by working at sea, you will face one of the toughest engineering challenges there is. First, systems need to be designed and manufactured to withstand some of the harshest conditions you can imagine. Once instruments are deployed, there is no turning back. Second, when things don't go as planned, level of preparedness and creativity become essential as no external resources can be called upon. That means that well-deserved pride comes along with success. Cabled ocean observatories projects such as Neptune Canada and Venus are prime examples of the drive for excellence imposed by sub-sea projects. They were born as a scientist's dream and thanks to a unique group of engineers and technicians, they became technological feasts. Videos and stories from the latest Neptune cruise will be used to illustrate how an impossible goal - installing a fleet of instruments between vents and black smokers - became a reality.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Pautet joined the Neptune Canada team on September 1st, 2010 as Associate Director of Engineering. She is primarily responsible for the management and leadership in the ongoing maintenance, repair and improvement of the subsea wet plant. Before joining the Neptune Canada team, Lucie spent over four years at the CTBTO in Vienna, Austria. This organization is in charge of installing, maintaining and operating a global network of monitoring stations to detect nuclear events. These stations are based on seismic, infrasound, hydroacoustic and radionuclide technologies. There, Lucie specialized in the maintenance of the hydroacoustic subnetwork and participated in cable installation, inspection, stabilization and repair missions. Previously, Lucie had been an ocean acoustics scientist at the NATO Undersea Research Centre in La Spezia, Italy. She worked on mine hunting sonar performance and port protection systems. She participated in the development of sound propagation models and innovative data processing techniques tested using real data acquired during annual research cruises. Lucie holds a Ph.D. in Applied Ocean Science from the University of California, an Engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France) and a MS in Project Management from Boston University.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC For Further Information Contact: Dr. A. Zielinski 250 721 8622
This seminar is co-sponsored by the IEEE Victoria Oceanic Engineering Society Chapter