B.Eng (2011) - Memorial University of Newfoundland
M.Eng (2014) - Memorial University of Newfoundland
PhD (2019) - Memorial University of Newfoundland
I joined the Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering department at
Memorial University of Newfoundland
as an Assistant Professor in
September of 2019. I received a bachelor's degree in Ocean and Naval Architectural
Engineering in 2011 from Memorial University of Newfoundland. I received
a master's degree in Ocean and
Naval Architectural Engineering in 2014
from Memorial University of Newfoundland. The focus of my masters
work was
in marine hydrodynamics, specifically in the hydrodynamic interactions of
two floating bodies at close
proximity. I received a doctoral degree
in Ocean and Naval Architecture in 2019 from Memorial University of
Newfoundland. The focus of my PhD work was on safety management for Arctic
shipping. The approach
to safety considered human factors, Safety II, and
resilience concepts. Operations are seen as so called
socio-technical systems, where they are modelled and monitored using the
functional resonance analysis
method (FRAM) and resilience measurement
techniques.
Since joining Memorial in 2019 I have taught a wide variety of Naval
Architecture courses and have been
actively supervising graduate students,
at both the masters and PhD level. My research interests involve improving
the methodological frameworks that exist to consider human factors and
resilience in organizational safety contexts,
as well as, using these novel
techniques in practice to demonstrate their utility and, hopefully, make
impactful
contributions to safety in practice. Since my approach to safety
focuses, more generally, on modelling socio-technical
systems, it is not only limited to application in Naval Architecture. This has led
interdisciplinary collaborations
involving functional modelling of
healthcare/nursing and community infrastructures
Click the links below to be redirected to an online publication
database/profile for my publications
A software, DynaFRAM, has been developed to visualize dynamic scenarios
in FRAM models. This
software is a companion software to the FRAM model
Visualizer (FMV). DynaFRAM allows the specifics
of an event or
instantiation to be animated using the original "static" FRAM models. For more
information
on DynaFRAM and to download it
click here.
Office: EN4039
Phone: 709-864-8470
Email: d.smith[at]mun.ca
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
S.J. Carew Building
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
A1B 3X5