Proceedings of 25th ITTC – Volume I 11 The Executive Committee Report to the 25th ITTC 1. INTRODUCTION 2. OBITUARIES The 25th ITTC Executive Committee has Makoto Ohkusu acted according to the Rules of the Organiza- Professor Makoto Ohkusu of Kyushu Uni- tion as defined and published in the Proceed- versity, Japan, passed away of cancer at pan- ings of the 24th ITTC. The Executive Commit- creas on May 12, 2006, aged 68. He was a tee has mostly approved and implemented member of the 18th ITTC seakeeping commit- those policies recommended by the Advisory tee (1984-1987), and the chairman of the 19th Council and also implemented the decisions of ITTC seakeeping committee (1987-1990). the 24th ITTC Conference held in Edinburgh in 2005. The late Professor Ohkusu started his scien- tific career working on the steady wave-making In all cases, the meetings of the Executive resistance of a ship, as a student of Professor Committee have been arranged to coincide at Emeritus Takao Inui at the University of Tokyo. the same venue as the meetings of the Advisory The first work which made him internationally Council. famous was on the hydrodynamic interactions The Executive Committee consists of seven among multiple floating bodies. This work has drawn much attention from engineers and sci- full-voting members, six of which are the Rep- entists, and greatly contributed to the develop- resentatives of the six Geographical Areas, to- ment of muti-hull ships and ocean platforms. gether with the Chairman of the Executive Another outstanding contribution by him in Committee, who is selected by the previous ship hydrodynamics is the development of the Conference of the ITTC. unsteady wave-pattern analysis method. This provided a new technique for studying the hy- The following are non-voting ex-officio drodynamic forces on and motions of a ship Members of the Executive Committee, the Past running at forward speed in waves, and shed Chairman of the Executive Committee, and the new light on the study of added resistance and Chairman and Secretary of the Advisory Coun- resulting speed loss. He also published many cil. other noteworthy papers, concerning such top- ics as the nonlinear behaviour of a long cable, a The Secretary of the Executive Committee, new evaluation method for the oscillating and who is elected by the Executive Committee, is translating Green function, and its application also an ex-officio non-voting Member of the to the boundary-value problem for the flow Executive Committee. around ships. In his last years before retirement from Kyushu University, he also worked on hydroelastic problems connected with very
The Executive Committee 12 large floating structures to be used as floating served as the vice president of POSTECH from airports. 1986 to 1991 and also as the director of the Advanced Fluid Engineering Research Center His academic achievements are highly rated, (AFERC), Center of Excellency Program sup- for which he received many awards, such as the ported by the Government from 1990 to 2005. best paper award in 1987 and the award of He published more than 200 research papers. good textbook publication in 1997 both from He supervised 18 master’s and doctoral stu- the Society of Naval Architects of Japan dents. His research interests and contributions (SNAJ), and also Yoshiki Award for long-term were significant, lasting and encompassing and contributions to the development of shipbuild- covered development of a numerical scheme ing technologies in 2005. He was chosen as the for the second order free surface wave prob- Lecturer for the prestigious Weinblum Lecture lems, ship motion problems related to the for the term of 2004-2005. catamarans and SWATHs during his early ca- reer, and marine environmental problems in- cluding oil-spill recovery problems and magne- Choung Mook Lee tohydrodynamics problems during his late ca- reer. Professor Choung Mook Lee passed away on July 26, 2006 at the age of 73. He was born He received many awards and citations in- on November 1, 1933 in Pyungteck, Korea. cluding the Outstanding Performance Awards in 1972 and 1975 from DTNSRDC and the Prof. Lee served as the members of ITTC: Outstanding Performance Awards in 1983 and 20th ITTC Quality Group, and 21st, 22nd and 1985 from ONR. He was also the American 23rd ITTC Executive Committees. Especially Bureau of Shipping- Captain Joseph H. Lin- he made a significant contribution to the 22nd nard Prize Recipients in 1975 from the Society Conference held in Seoul and Shanghai in 1999 of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers by a as the chairman of the Executive Committee. paper titled “Ocean Catamaran Seakeeping De- He attended Seoul National University and re- sign Based Upon the Experiences of USNS ceived his Bachelor of Science degree in naval Hayes”. Prof. Lee also received the Out- architecture in 1958. He went to the Unites standing Scientific Achievement Award in States of America in 1960 and received his 1996 and the Best Paper Award in 2004 both Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical en- from the Society of Naval Architecture of Ko- gineering from the University of North Dakota. rea. He received the “Dongbaeg Badge” of Na- Then he continued his advanced studies at the tional Decoration in 1997 from the Govern- Department of Naval Architecture, University ment. of California, Berkeley for his Master’s and Ph.D degrees in 1963 and 1966, respectively. Prof. Lee served as the presidents of the He worked as a research engineer at the David Korea Society of Theoretical and Applied Me- Taylor Naval Ship R&D Center (DTNSRDC) chanics (Korean counterpart of IUTAM), the during 1966-1982. He worked at the Korea Re- Society of Naval Architecture of Korea search Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineer- (SNAK) and the Korean Society for Marine ing (KRISO) in Korea as the vice president on Environmental Engineering including the his sabbatical leave in 1978. He worked as chairman of the Korean Towing Tank Confer- S&T Progress Manager at Office of Naval Re- ence (KTTC). He retired from the Pohang Uni- search during 1982-1986. versity of Science and Technology in February 2006 and became professor Emeritus. Professor Prof. Lee returned to Pohang University of Lee is survived by his wife, Dr. Sin Ai H. Lee, Science & Technology (POSTECH), Korea as and two daughters, Jean Young L. Chae and a professor of mechanical engineering. He Sue Lee Collins, both living in the States.
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