MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, CANADA
July 17-20, 2010

CONFERENCE LOCATION: SHERATON HOTEL NEWFOUNDLAND
www.sheraton.com/newfoundland


Biographical Information

Atle Minsaas (PhD NTNU, 1990) Dr. Atle Minsaas obtained his MSc within marine systems design from the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology (NTNU), formerly NTH: Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in 1977. He also holds a PhD from NTNU within the same field from 1990. Dr. Minsaas has been with MARINTEK since he graduated (Norwegian Marine Technology Research Institute; a research company within the SINTEF Group). MARINTEK is a versatile research company specializing in R&D in central areas of the maritime and offshore fields. He has been instrumental in building up logistics R&D as an important area of the MARINTEK services. He was also appointed the programme manager of the first 4 years national waterborne R&D programme funded by the Research Council of Norway. Dr Minsaas has more than 25 years experience working with logistics related R&D projects for the shipping and offshore industries, in Norway and abroad. Since 1995 he has also been heavily involved in many European Union (EU)-funded projects, also as a coordinator. Dr. Minsaas has held different positions in MARINTEK. He has been a vice president with responsibility of the Division of Logistics and Technical Operations, but is now a special adviser in the staff. In December 2008 he was appointed as a project manager for the development of the next generation marine technology knowledge centre "The third Wave" in Norway, a truly visionary knowledge centre for all things maritime and most things marine, equipped with research facilities with content and a size capable of delivering state-of-the-art research and development well beyond 2050. The third Wave hints at the first wave, which was the initiation of the first ship model tank in 1939 and the second wave, which was the Marine Technology Centre including the ocean basin, opened in 1979.