SUNY Maritime College Annual Report 2018-2019

S trong, collaborative partnerships with industry and government are instrumental in ensuring the College’s curricula remains relevant. Partnerships have proven to be among the most critical components Cultivate Strong EXTERNAL PARTNERSHIPS New partnerships have resulted in the establishment of the New York Maritime Innovation Center (NYMIC), which connects the maritime industry with forward-thinking developers, technologists, and investors. Led by Dr.

as a nonprofit organization in 2018, moved to New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (pictured right) in 2019. The largest event hosted by NYMIC and co-sponsored by nine partnering companies was the NYC Maritime

in maintaining post-graduation employment rates at 87% within six months of graduation. It is these solidified partnerships that have also resulted in the development of various conferences and professional events, many of which expose students to industry experts allowing them to learn about the evolving issues within the maritime industry.

Christopher Clott, ABS Chair and Global Business and Transportation faculty member, NYMIC’s entrepreneurial focus on the maritime industry ecosystem is intended to spur development and serve as a bridge between the technology, maritime, logistics, and finance communities and startups. Entrepreneurial in its focus, the long- term goal of NYMIC is three-fold. It first aims to move the

Hackathon held from March 29 - 31, 2019. This 36-hour event attracted over 100 developers, designers and domain experts, and gave them rare access to top maritime industry and tech executives, investors and entrepreneurs. Together they worked on building commercially viable solutions for the maritime industry and collaborated to design solutions to tackle a variety of industry problems and data sets. Among the challenges participants addressed were understanding how matching learning and data analytics can be used to optimize energy consumption, reduce emissions and provide savings, and whether predictive analytics or machine learning can be applied to shorten the time an ocean shipment travels from its point of origin to its destination. “We are at the beginning of a huge innovation evolution with great potential to develop global partnerships,” stated Dr. Clott.

maritime industry forward through startups that can reach minimal viable products. A second goal is to develop a talent pool of individuals who technologies. NYMIC’s final goal is to establish itself as the preeminent destination for maritime technology. NYMIC, which was founded and established demonstrate strong proficiency in new

STRATEGIC PLAN IN ACTION: Supported by more than $500,000 in SUNY Performance Enhancement Funds, Maritime College established an Offshore Energy Center of Excellence and an LNG Center of Excellence to create industry-recognized training and education programs.

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