Mr. Frederick H. Ashcroft
SNAME
Membership: Fellow (Active)
Living in Ann Arbor from 1971 - 1991, I attended the University of Michigan and managed the (then named) Ship Hydrodynamics Laboratory. In November of 1991, I moved to Escondido, CA to become Manager of the Hydrodynamics Group at Arctec Offshore. In 1993 I joined Scientific Marine Services, becoming a Vice President, staying with them until 2006, when I moved to General Dynamics NASSCO as a Principal Engineer in the Functional Engineering group: I retired from NASSCO in 2018. I am currently Technology and Research Director for SNAME and do some consulting as Ashcroft Engineering and Analytics. I have authored more than 25 papers on instrumentation, modeling, structural monitoring, and conducting full scale trials. I am a past Functional Vice President - Technology, former Chair HS-12, Hull Instrumentation and the Hull Structures Committee, and Chair of EC-14 from founding in 2020 until 2023, Underwater Radiated Noise. I am a past Chair of the Southwest Section of SNAME. I serve on the SNAME Planning Committee (2014 - Present) and Finance Committee from (2014 - 2024) and have served on both the SMC Technical and Planning Committees since 2014.