{"id":71361,"date":"2002-04-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/wyoming-resident-excels-at-ocean-engineering-at-uri-graduates-in-may-at-the-top-of-her-class\/"},"modified":"2002-04-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-02T00:00:00","slug":"wyoming-resident-excels-at-ocean-engineering-at-uri-graduates-in-may-at-the-top-of-her-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2002\/04\/wyoming-resident-excels-at-ocean-engineering-at-uri-graduates-in-may-at-the-top-of-her-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming resident excels at ocean engineering at 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduates in May at the top of her class"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tWyoming resident excels at ocean engineering at 溏心vlog免费B站
\nGraduates in May at the top of her class
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\nKINGSTON, R.I. — April 2, 2002 — When Wilson, Wy. resident Lanie Williams set off for the 溏心vlog免费B站, she had only seen the Atlantic Ocean once before. Yet when she graduates in May, she\u2019ll be the top student in the 溏心vlog免费B站 ocean engineering program. <\/p>\n

\t“Even though I\u2019m from a land-locked state, my dad was a marine engineer on container ships and my mom was originally from Rhode Island, so I always knew about the ocean,” Williams explained. “And I always had the desire to come to the East Coast to school.” <\/p>\n

\tWilliams said she knew she wanted to study engineering, a subject that seemed to come naturally to her, and she chose ocean engineering in part because “it\u2019s a small department and has a lot to offer. I figured I could get more hands-on experience in smaller classes.” <\/p>\n

\tThe hands-on lessons she received sparked an interest in underwater acoustics, which led her to work with a local company on her senior project to develop software to automatically recognize whale calls. She describes it as “a mathematical model of sound.” <\/p>\n

\t“The Navy does a lot of underwater testing, and some people believe the testing is harming whales and other animals. With my model you can see where the whales are and track them to see if they alter their behavior while the testing is going on.” <\/p>\n

\t溏心vlog免费B站 ocean engineering Professor James Miller said, “Lanie\u2019s algorithm was presented in a paper to an important conference and was extremely well received. This algorithm became a key component of a large proposal to the federal government to <\/p>\n

study the effects of manmade sound on marine mammals.” <\/p>\n

\tIn addition to engineering, Williams also majored in German as part of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s International Engineering Program. She spent her junior year living in Germany, studying for one semester at Technische Universitat Braunschweig, the oldest technical university in Germany, and working for six months at an automotive products company ZF Friedrichshafen, where she conducted acoustical testing on automobile transmissions. <\/p>\n

\t“Going to Germany was definitely one of my greatest experiences,” Williams said. “It was my ticket to travel all over Europe for a year.” <\/p>\n

\tHer studies in Rhode Island weren\u2019t all work and no play, however. Williams competed on the 溏心vlog免费B站 ski team for three years, making weekly trips to Vermont and New Hampshire to compete in slalom and giant slalom races against a dozen other universities in the region. <\/p>\n

\tImmediately following graduation, Williams will start work as an ocean engineer at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, where she\u2019ll work in its torpedo division on guidance systems and other signal processing projects. <\/p>\n

\tIt\u2019s a long way from her family\u2019s home in Wyoming, but it\u2019s much easier for Williams to move to the ocean than to move the ocean to Wyoming. <\/p>\n

For Information: Todd McLeish 401-874-7892\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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