Making a WAAM System for Maritime Education and Research

Find out how students assembled this cost-effective equipment 
April 2023
By: JAMES GAROFALO, ANNIE BLADOW, AND KOLBE KIRLIN

The United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) in New York, also known as Kings Point, is a federal service academy that educates and graduates licensed merchant marine officers and officers commissioning into the armed forces. The academy was started in 1943 and began producing merchant marine officers, which were in dire need at the time, to ship supplies overseas. Academy graduates abide by the motto “Acta Non Verba” or “Deeds Not Words” and often sail in the merchant shipping fleet, work in shipyards, or go ..

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