Research Scientist Emeritus and Adjunct Professor
E-mail: nalamb@umich.edu
B.Sc.Hons. University of Durham, 1958; Naval Architecture
M.B.A. Tulane University, 1990
P.E. Wisconsin, & Washington; British Chartered Engineer; Registered European Engineer
- “Build Strategy Development,” National Shipbuilding Research Program.
- “Requirements and Assessments for Global Shipbuilding Competitiveness,” National Shipbuilding Research Program.
- “Concurrent Engineering Application and Implementation in U.S. Shipbuilding,” National Shipbuilding Research Program.
- “Agile Competitiveness in Shipbuilding,” ARPA/Lehigh University Program.
- “Stern Factory Design,” McDermott Shipbuilding, Inc. in support of ARPA’s Maritech Program.
- “PODAC Cost Model Development,” NSWC, Carderock, Maryland.
- “Generic Build Strategy,” NSWC, Carderock, Maryland.
- “Product-Oriented Work Breakdown Structure,” NSWC, Carderock, Maryland.
- “Productivity Metric for Shipbuilding,” NAVSEA. “Productivity Metric for Naval Ship,” NAVSEA.
Refereed Proceedings or Journals
- “Organization Theory and Shipbuilding – A brief Overview.” Presented to Gulf Section of SNAME, April, 1991. (MARINE TECHNOLOGY, April, 1992)
- “Shell Plate Development – Is there a problem or not?” Presented to the 1993 NSRP Symposium, Williamsburg, Virginia.
- “Technology Survey of U.S. Shipyards – 1994.” Presented to the 1995 SHIP PRODUCTION SYMPOSIUM, Seattle, Washington. Co-authored with Dr. R. L. Storch and J. Clark
- “Build Strategy Development.” Presented to the 1995 SHIP PRODUCTION SYMPOSIUM, Seattle, Washington. Co-authored with J. Clark.
- “The Development and Implementation Technology in the Shipbuilding Industry.” Presented to the 1995 SNAME Annual Meeting, Washington DC. Co-authored with Andrew Alan.
- “Concurrent Engineering: Application and Implementation for U.S. Shipbuilding.” Presented to the 1995 SHIP PRODUCTION SYMPOSIUM, Seattle, Washington. Co-authored with J. Bennett.
- “CE or not CE. That is the Question.” Presented to the 1997, SHIP PRODUCTION SYMPOSIUM, New Orleans, La.
- “Naval Ship Compensation Coefficients.” Presented at 1999 Ship Production Symposium, Arlington, VA., July 29, 1999.
- “A Generic Shipbuilding Computer Model,” Co-authored with J.G. Shin and H. Chung, Journal of Ship Production, November, 2000.
- “A Shipbuilding Productivity Predictor,” Co-authored with A. Hellesoy, To be presented at 2001 Ship Production Symposium, Ypsilanti, MI June 2001.
- “Lean Shipbuilding,” Co-authored with Dr. J. Liker, To be presented at 2001 Ship Production Symposium, Ypsilanti, MI June 2001.
- “World-class Shipbuilders: Their Productivity and and Use of Lean
- Manufacturing,” SNAME Transactions, 2001.
Non-refereed Publications
- “Design for Production in Basic Design.” Presented to the 1986 SNAME Spring Meeting, Portland, Oregan. Received Spring Meeting Best Paper Award.
- “Engineering for Ship Production.” Presented to the 1986 NSRP Technical Syposium, Williamsburg, Virginia.
- “A Productivity and Technology Metric for Shipbuilding.” Presented to the SNAME Great Lakes and Great Rivers Section Meeting, January 1998, Cleveland, Ohio.
- “A Ship Design Economic Synthesis Program.” Presented to the SNAME Great lakes and Great Rivers Section Meeting, January 1998, Cleveland, Ohio. Co-authored with H. S. Choung and J. Singhal.
- “Research Advances in Marine Design Concepts – System Design.” Opening lecture WEGEMT Association 27th School, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, September 7-12, 1998.
- “A Trade-off Analysis Tool for Ship Designers.” Presented to the David Taylor Centennial Symposium, Arlington, VA., September 18, 1998.
- “Computer Assisted Shipbuilding Policy Development.” Presented to the David Taylor Centennial Symposium, Arlington, VA., September 18, 1998.
Reports and Books
| Book | ENGINEERING FOR SHIP PRODUCTION, 1986 |
| SP-4 Panel Project Report | LIMITATIONS OF COMPUTERIZED LOFTING FOR SHELL PLATE DEVELOPMENT, 1994 |
| SP-4 Panel Project Report | BUILD STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT, 1994 |
| SP-8 Panel Project | A PRIMER ON CONCURRENT ENGINEERING, 1994 |
| PODAC PWBS SELF TRAINING MANUAL, 1997 | |
| OBSERVATIONS ON EUROPEAN AND ASIAN SHIPBUILDING – BASED ON VISITS TO EUROPEAN AND ASIAN SHIPYARDS, July 1, 1998 to June 30, 1999 ONR VISIT TO JAPANESE AND KOREAN SHIPYARDS, May 24 to 28, 1999 |
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| SUMMARY OF SHIPYARD PRODUCTIVITY RECOMMENDATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION RESULTS, March 6, 2000 |
- NA 276 Introduction to Marine Manufacturing
- NA 475 Marine Design Team Project
- NA 562 Concurrent Marine Design Management
- NA 579 Concurrent Marine Design Team Project