This report summarizes the presentation of six short courses that were given around the country. The short courses presented were: Quality Function Deployment, Modern Commercial Shipbuilding, Design for Production Integration, and Implementing Advanced Technology. Some of the course material and the knowledge obtained during the course presentation discussion has been used in the development of new ship production courses at The University of Michigan, Department of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering.

Excerpt from The Training of Shipyard Workers: Report on the Work of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Industrial Relations Division, Education and Training Section The average length of training period studied in 21 yards for 20 trades and from the records of 9677 men was found to be days. The tonnage produced by the men trained by the intensive methods of the Emergency Fleet Corporation totaled tons or equivalent to 62 ships of 8000 dead weight tons capacity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.