Curriculum Vitae

Patrick Couser

 MEng, PhD, CEng, MRINA

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Education

PhD Naval Architecture: An investigation into the performance of high-speed displacement catamarans in calm water and waves University of Southampton, Department of Ship Science, (October 1991 to December 1995) -- PhD awarded June 1996.

MEng Ship Science University of Southampton (October 1986 to June 1990)

Work Experience

Sunnypowers Limited
Director
(May 2004 onwards)

Formation Design Systems Senior Naval Architect / Software Engineer
(September 1998 to July 2004)

Australian Maritime Engineering Co-operative Research Centre, Perth Core
Research Associate
(August 1996 to September 1998)

BMT Seatech Ltd
Naval Architect
(January 1996 to June 1996)

Department of Ship Science, University of Southampton
Research Assistant
(January 1992 to December 1995)

North Sails UK
Reasearcher (Whitbread Merit Cup project)
(October 1991 to March 1992, part time)

Seward Maritime
Naval Architect
(June 1991)

Shell International Marine
Naval Architect
(June 1989 to September 1989, Summer placement)

Honeywell Bull
Project Manager
(June 1988 to September 1988, Summer placement)

Experience

Naval architecture

Research

Project management

Software development

Experiments

Skills

Design Hull design with surface modelling, general CAD. (maxsurf suite, Wolfson, ShipConstructor, AutoCAD)

Software development Microsoft Visual C++, XWindows, Fortran, Pascal, Basic etc.

6 June 2004