Reflection On River Padma

River Padma, the biggest and most turbulent river of Bangladesh, is around twenty kilometers from the village where I grew up listening about sinking of locally manufactured launch which regularly took a toll of thousands of lives. Every year around thousands of people lose their lives because of these accidents. I just always asked myself why this type of accident happens. As the Padma has alienated the southern part of our country from the other parts, it is a must for people of those areas to cross the river to reach the capital city, Dhaka. In year of 2008 when I first came to Dhaka, I had a bitter experience of observing such accident. Horrible scene of hundreds of people dying in front of me made me seriously rethink- how this problem

In this thesis, my main purpose was to investigate that the ship structure we made, is it safe enough and also how can we improve the safety? For this, I selected a structure called bulkhead from an oil tanker. During my thesis work, I faced many problems. I solved those problems discussing with my professor. I had regularly contacted people of shipbuilding industry to have a closer knowledge of the problems they are facing and tried to reach a feasible solution. In this thesis I used the knowledge that I acquired from numerous courses in my undergraduate level and found interesting- namely, Mechanics of Structure; Ship Structure; Motion and Control; Heat Transfer; Theory of Machines; Shipbuilding Materials; Optimization. So brainstorming from different aspect and different view to solve those problems, it was really enjoyable for me. From then I get the fascination to become a researcher. Beside this thesis, in third year of my undergraduate level, I with two of my groupmates worked on a project to design a container vessel of 93 meter length. We designed that vessel to carry 150 TEUs from Dhaka to