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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Naval Academy"”.
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NUMERICALLY MODELING FLOODING SUSCEPTIBILITY OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY
… to urban infrastructure. The United States Naval Academy is one location that is especially impacted by urban flooding. Due to glacial isostatic adjustment and reclaimed soil consolidation, this area experiences subsidence as well as the effects of sea level rise, which make it susceptible …
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The Lived Experience of Black Females at the United States Naval Academy: Navigating Waters Less Traveled
… of Black female midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA)—a group that remains underrepresented, particularly in the Navy’s senior officer ranks. Strengthening this pipeline requires an understanding of the motivations that bring Black women to USNA and the challenges they face once …
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The impact of the summer seminar program on midshipman performance: does summer seminar participation influence success at the Naval Academy?
… rising high school seniors a six-day look at Naval Academy life, has resulted in a more successful midshipman. While not previously discussed in literature, there are an abundance of studies on civilian recruiting and orientation programs, as well as realistic job previews and …
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Design and task analysis for a game-based shiphandling simulator using an open source game engine (DELTA3D)
… instruction and hands-on training onboard naval academy training boats (YPs). The goal was to develop a proof-of concept game-based simulator that uses 3D graphics to replicate basic tasks executed onboard the YPs. Two missions were selected for a brief task analysis study to determine the …
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Assessment and evaluation of the employment of the Midshipman Information System (MIDS) as a performance measurement tool by Company Officers at the United States Naval Academy
… measurement tool at the United States Naval Academy. Specifically, this project examines how Company Officers use MIDS to measure the performance and development of the midshipmen over time, what metrics they believe are important to midshipmen development, how current MIDS …
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An analysis of the relative productivity of officers from different accesion [sic] sources
This thesis compares the relative productivity of Naval Officers from the U.S. Naval Academy, Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC), and Officer Candidate School (OCS). This is accomplished by creating a performance index for each individual based on officer fitness reports. The effects of …
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A model predictive control approach to a class of multiplayer minmax differential games
… The outdoor testbed involved full-sized US Naval Academy patrol ships, and the experiment was conducted in Chesapeake Bay in collaboration with the US Naval Academy. The scenario used involved one ship (the intruder) being commanded by a human pilot, and the defender ship being controlled …
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Numerical and experimental investigation of the effect of an inverted bow on the hydrodynamic performance of Navy combatant hull forms
… Model tests were conducted in the United States Naval Academy Hydromechanics Laboratory for resistance in calm water and seakeeping in both regular waves and irregular head seas. The differences between the FFG-7 and the inverted bow responses are characterized in terms of pitch, heave, and …
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An approach to leadership and character development within military higher education
… practitioners from the United States Military Academy (West Point), the United States Naval Academy, and the United States Air Force Academy participated in semi-structured interviews. Information gleaned from questions pertaining to academic courses, classes, seminars and workshops, and honor …
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USS FITZGERALD COLLISION: MIDSHIPMEN CASE STUDY
Naval Academy Midshipmen spend four years in a comprehensive program of moral, mental, and physical development meant to mold them into Navy and Marine Corps officers ready to lead in combat. This program includes critical summer training periods where Midshipmen embark with Navy ships and Fleet …
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Retention of U.S. Navy Surface Warfare Officers Before and After the Global War on Terror (GWOT)
… War on Terror. Our retention analysis shows that Naval Academy and ROTC/NROTC graduates are less likely to stay than OCS graduates during both the pre- and post-GWOT periods. Officers with advanced education are less likely to stay than officers with bachelors degrees in the pre-GWOT period but, …
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Adjustable Energy Saving Device for Transom Stern Hulls
… on a 1/80th scale model at the United States Naval Academy Hydromechanics Laboratory (NAHL). The validated numerical model is used to predict the hydrodynamic characteristics of the transom mounted interceptor at different interceptor settings and speeds. The results show that the interceptor …
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MEASUREMENT AND PREDICTION OF LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS BASED ON ATTRIBUTES
… of 1978 graduates of the United States Naval Academy who had spent 30 years as officers in either the U.S. Navy or U.S. Marine Corps. The results of the MLQ 5X indicated that the group of career military officers scored higher than Bass and Avolio's normative group in seven of the nine …
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Effectiveness of bridge design competitions in the United States (1989-1998)
… focuses on three as case studies: the U.S. Naval Academy Bridge design competition (1989), the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge design process (1997), and the Woodrow Wilson Bridge design competition (1998). This study uses published literature, newspaper and journal articles, design …
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Testing the Continuum of Harm: the Role of Generlized Harassment and Leader Tolerance for Sexual Harassment in Predicting Survivor Outcomes
… the Navy Tailhook Scandal in 1993, the Air Force Academy scandal in Colorado in 2003, and the scandals at West Point and the Naval Academy in 2013 shocked the nation. Despite decades of media and research attention to the topic of sexual harassment and assault in the U.S. military, violent crimes, …
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Fighting engineers : the U.S. Navy and mechanical engineering, 1840-1905
… engineer corps during the Civil War, the U.S. Naval Academy in the postwar period designed an unprecedented technical curriculum. Through this program, the Navy trained the nation's first group of modern mechanical engineers. As Navy engineers built their profession after the war, they …
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Improved Design Method for Cambered Stepped Hulls with High Deadrise
… and tested in the tow tank at the United States Naval Academy. A series of validation studies utilizing fixed and overset meshes led to a final simulation set up with an overset mesh that allowed for accurate prediction of drag, trim moment, wetted keel length, and the wake profile aft of the …
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Language learning strategies and tolerance of ambiguity of Korean midshipmen learning English as a foreign language
… the degree of tolerance of ambiguity of Korean Naval Academy midshipmen. The subjects, 377 midshipmen, were divided into three groups according to class, major, and proficiency, and the results were analyzed by group. The study also sought to find out relationships between motivation, attitude, …
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Slamming of High Speed Craft: A Parametric Study of Severe Cases
… experiments previously conducted at the U.S. Naval Academy. Hydrodynamic forces were measured globally and also at particular locations near the bow. The vertical motions were programmed into a pair of linear actuators that were rigidly mounted to the towing carriage. The towing carriage …
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