Maritime Institute of Technology Marintec

Professor Michael Blumenstein
Deputy Dean (Research and Innovation)
Faculty of Engineering and IT
University of Technology Sydney

Today we're here to launch Marintec, a joint institute between Navantia Australia and the University of Technology Sydney. It's taking a world class maritime company working with a world class university of Technology to deliver real world outcomes, not only for industry, but for Australia as a whole, particularly in the space of sovereign capability and delivery of the workforce of the future.

0:27
William Infante
Navantia Tech Innovation lead

I'm really excited to be here today for the launch of Marintec, the Maritime Institute of Technology. At Navantia Australia we'd like to help support the growth of a truly Australian naval ship building and sustainment industry, to have a focus on digital Technologies for the maritime industry, have research translation to commercially relevant work, and also support workforce development.

0:48
Edoardo Menon
Faculty of Engineering and IT
University of Technology Sydney

The collaboration between UTS and Navantia Australia is great because we can work together, where we can get their expertise on the Navy side, we can get the researchers from our side, and we can collaborate and make really interesting projects that do solve a general need.

1:00
Professor Michael Blumenstein

The scope of Marintec is indeed limitless, in terms of what we could actually do together.

1:06
William Infante

We will have R&D projects that could help us either train, for example, the graduates and PhD students that could be part of the Institute, but also move digital technologies forward in the maritime industry.

1:22
Tim Porritt
Faculty of Engineering and IT
University of Technology Sydney

Working with the Navantia Australia through Marintec is amazing we work on a lot of different projects with real life Navy use cases.

1:26
Sonia Trong
Faculty of Engineering and IT
University of Technology Sydney

I've been involved in a couple of projects with Navantia Australia; one of them being ship routing. This platform accounts for things like weather risks, geopolitical risks, safety risks. It's a very collaborative approach, all about co-creation for us, so I think that's how we believe that our solutions will succeed.

1:44
Tim Porritt

So, in the gamification training project, I worked on the system architecture to enable the remote training using the project. The project allows for remote training of cadets, recruits, and trainees, in Navy processes.

1:57
Edoardo Menon

With training specifically, you really want to feel like, maybe you have that sense of danger. Give the trainees a real world experience of what it might be like. This would empower recruiters, or even possibly recruits, as to what a career in the Navy might be like.

2:08
William Infante

All of this really goes to the maritime industry push for the best world-in-class digital technology.

2:17
Professor Michael Blumenstein

To deliver real world outcomes not only to benefit industry but also for Australia as a whole.