Designing the Learning Vessel: AI for Cadet Training and Shipboard Support

An event by IMarEST Eastern USA Branch, jointly held with the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), the Society of Marine Port Engineers (SMPE), and the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE).

5pm – 8pm EST 18 November 2025 + Add to calendar New York Webb Institute

Location: Webb Institute 298 Crescent Beach Road Glen Cove, NY 11542

Timings:

Social Hour	5:00 PM
Dinner	5:30 PM
Campus Tour	6:30 PM
Technical Session & Webcast	7:00 PM

Speakers:

Amit J. Mokashi, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

J.D. Jayaraman, NJ City University

About the presentation:

Shipboard cadet training faces persistent gaps—limited and inconsistent instruction, constrained mentorship, rapid technological change, and psychosocial strains of isolation. This presentation outlines how AI can standardize and personalize training while strengthening wellbeing. Proposed capabilities include adaptive tutoring and analytics, AI-generated and simulator-integrated content, and immersive VR/AR for just-in-time guidance; at the same time, AI-enabled health tools (biometric monitoring, affective computing, and CBT-informed chatbots) form a monitor-predict-support-adapt loop. A lifecycle approach aligns interventions to onboarding, deployment, and post-assignment, with current maritime tools surveyed and a note that fully autonomous, AI-personalized training and seafarer-specific mental-health/affective systems are still emerging. Adoption challenges—stakeholder acceptance, limited connectivity, algorithmic bias, privacy/compliance, and impending regulation—are addressed via a diffusion-of-innovation roadmap tailored to MET institutions and operators. We conclude that responsibly governed AI can improve training quality, retention, and safety by enabling individualized learning plans and integrated health support, provided transparency and regulatory engagement accompany deployment

Booking:

Please E-mail your plans to attend in-person to Bradley Golden, Chairman & Honorary Secretary by Monday, November 17, 2025. We encourage inviting prospective new members interested in joining the Institute to attend a technical meeting as a guest of the Eastern USA Branch of the IMarEST.

Regsiter for virtual attendance via this link.