Naval Architecture with High Performance Marine Vehicles MEng

Program Overview

This four-year Naval Architecture program covers the design and engineering of marine vehicles, with a focus on high-performance vessels like sailing yachts and high-speed ships. Hands-on experience is gained through laboratory and design classes, as well as field trips and international work placements. Career opportunities range from marine design to shipbuilding and engineering consultation.

Program Outline

Outline:

• Year 1 & 2:
• Engineering Science
• Fundamentals of naval architecture
• Buoyancy and floatation
• Stability
• Ship types
• Terminology
• Resistance and propulsion
• Ship structural analysis
• Ship design
• Marine engineering systems
• Business and management subjects
• Year 3 & 4:
• Advanced subjects related to the design of conventional ships, sailing yachts, high-speed ships, and other high-performance marine vehicles
• State-of-the-art tools for analyzing water flow around ship hulls, predicting stresses and strains in the hull structure, and the behavior of ships in waves
• Design of yachts and powercraft
• Predicting the behavior of high-performance sailing yachts and high-speed ships
• Specialized individual project on a subject of choice involving calculations, design, computer studies, or tank-testing using departmental facilities

Teaching:

• Lectures
• Tutorials
• Laboratory and group design classes
• Field trips
• Guest lectures
• Seminars

Careers:

• Defense
• Marine Designers
• Oil and Gas – subsea, on-shore/off-shore
• Ship classification
• Technical Services
• Engineering consulting
• Naval Architect
• Junior Naval Architect
• Ship Surveyor
• Marine Engineer
• Project Engineer

Other:

• Students can train to use the department’s 33-foot racing yacht
• International work placement opportunities
• Sponsorships and scholarship opportunities
• Access to departmental and faculty sponsorship and scholarships
• Cutting-edge computer facilities
• Industry standard software

Scotland: £1,820 England, Wales & Northern Ireland: £9,250 International: £26,700