Intermediate Python - Pandas and Packages drafted

Program Overview

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Course overview

Get to grips with a number of different Python packages that are commonly used for data analysis like Pandas, CSV, Numpy and SciPy.

The course is available in four formats:

Campus

Clients office

Online (virtual classroom) with live tutoring

Bespoke (group or 1:1 coaching)

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100% of AIR income, beyond operational expense, is used towards education and research.

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Explore data analysis

Pandas, Numpy, SciPy and CSV are all libraries, which are a group of features and functionalities for the programming language Python. The libraries looked at in this intermediate course, are used mainly for data analysis and can help you can use to analyse, filter, manipulate, aggregate, merge, pivot and clean datasets.

This three-day course focuses on how to write and run simple data analysis in Python and builds on these using some of the extensions available in Python. You’ll also manipulate and clean data as well as use the stats library to conduct basic statistic tests.

On this course, you’ll also look at:

Conducting simple statistical analyses: The Python Numpy Module

Combining For/While loops and Numpy for complex analysis

Using Pandas to import and manipulate datasets.

For this course, you’ll need some basic experience with Python, be able to conduct simple statistical analysis. You also have the option to bring your own dataset if you have it.

This course can also be taken with our short course

Introduction to Python.

Campus Courses - VAT-free:

Our venues are in central London (Senate House) and in New Cross. You can select your preferred location by choosing the date available.

Virtual Classroom Courses - VAT-free:

Live tutoring brings all the benefits of face to face training and, in addition, improves skills for ‘digital’ participation. There is an increasing need for online activities in all areas of life – making ‘digital’ participation an essential skill of the 21st century.

Bespoke Courses:

If you are interested in a tailor-made Public Speaking course option: 1-1 coaching or bespoke group training, please contact us using the email or phone number provided below.

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Program Outline

Course content

A typical selection of classes offered on the programme are outlined below. Please note that these classes may be subject to change.

Semester 1

Semester 2

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Risers & Mooring Lines

This module aims to:

give an overview of the current deep-water oil and gas developments around the world and the technical challenges in terms of riser and mooring line design

demonstrate methods for modelling and analysing risers and mooring lines

This module covers:

oil & gas field development options: platform types, marine riser systems, current design trends and deep-water challenges

riser systems: flexible pipe structure, typical configurations, top-tensioned vertical risers, hybrid risers.

flow assurance: multi-phase flow, deposition of solids, thermal management

riser analysis: governing equations, boundary conditions, natural frequency

mooring lines: typical mooring configuration, material and construction, anchors and ancillary equipment, static mooring line analysis

vortex induced vibration: drag, vortex shedding, surface roughness, lift, Strouhal number, VIV assessment, fatigue life calculation

On completion of the module you're expected to have

an overview of mooring lines and marine risers for deep-water floating offshore platforms

an understanding of the generic hydrodynamic issues

a grasp of the analytical
umerical methods for analysing risers and mooring lines

You'll carry out the coursework individually using the knowledge taught during lectures and computer lab sessions.

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Offshore Structural Integrity

This module aims to provide:

principles and methodologies to analyse and evaluate pertinent issues concerning the use of engineering materials and structural integrity in the marine environment

practical tools for considering structural integrity and structural fitness-for-service problems throughout the design life cycle in the marine environment

The module will teach the following:

1. Introduction:

1. Structural design philosophies
2. In service failure modes (fracture, fatigue, creep and corrosion) (overview)
3. Application of materials testing (tools of failure analysis)
4. Methodologies of materials and process selection

2. Materials specification and sourcing:

1. Metallic materials (Steels, Aluminium, and Metal Matrix Composite (MMC))
2. Mechanical properties, manufacturing methods, deformation and materials forming, standards and Industrial applications
3. Composite (Polymer Matrix Composite (PMC))
4. Composite materials in offshore structure

3. Joining and welding:

1. Advanced manufacturing process
2. Joining and Welding in metals and composites
3. Residual stress: origins and measurement of residual stress in Metallic and Composite component

4. Fracture mechanics:

1. Stress analysis of cracks
2. Fracture toughness
3. Connecting the fracture theories, critical crack sizes (ductile vs brittle) & NDE
4. Limitations of LEFM, Crack Tip Plasticity
5. Mixed-mode fracture problems, KIc testing
6. Elastic-plastic fracture mechanics (EPFM), J-Integral, JIc testing, Application Case Studies
7. Fractography

5. Fatigue:

1. Fatigue life analysis
2. Stress-Life and how to develop and use S-N curve
3. Cyclic stress/strain behaviour leading to hardening or softening (microstructure origins)
4. Fatigue crack initiation, damage tolerant lifetime
5. Corrosion fatigue
6. Notch effects on fatigue, fatigue crack growth testing
7. Fatigue fractography case studies

6. Corrosion:

1. Corrosion prevention and mitigation
2. Embrittlement mechanisms
3. Environmentally assisted crack growth

7. Creep and stress rupture:

1. Time-dependent mechanical behaviour
2. Mechanisms of creep deformation
3. Structural changes during creep
4. Creep-fatigue interaction
5. Creep under combined stresses

8. Nondestructive evaluation:

1. Introduction to methods for determining the presence of defects and their size
2. Structural health monitoring
3. Inspection reliability
4. Defect and remaining life assessment

On completion of the module, you're expected to be able to:

show a systematic understanding of structural integrity and fitness-for-service issues

demonstrate an in-depth awareness of the current practice and its limitations in aspects of structural integrity

develop a critical and analytical approach towards the engineering aspects of structural integrity

be able to confidently assess the applicability of the tools of structural integrity to new problems and apply them appropriately

Assessment and feedback are in the form of coursework.

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Finite Element Analysis of Floating Structures

This module aims to provide you with a theoretical and practical knowledge of the finite element method and the skills required to analyse marine structures with ANSYS graphical user interface (GUI).

This module covers:

introduction to finite element analysis and ANSYS GUI

truss elements and applications

solid elements and applications

beam elements and applications

plane stress, plane strain and axisymmetry concepts

plane elements and applications

plate & shell elements and applications

assembly process and constructing of the global stiffness matrix

At the end of this module you'll be able to:

understand the basics of finite element analysis

understand how to perform finite element analysis by using a commercial finite element software

understand specifying necessary input parameters for the analysis

understand how to visualize and evaluate the results

There is one exam and one coursework assignment. The exam is during the exam period of the first semester. Exam has a weight of 70% and coursework assignment has a weight of 30%.

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Theory & Practice of Marine Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

This module aims to introduce you to the theoretical background of marine CFD using the finite volume method. It also aims to illustrate the key ideas related to discretisation and solution of the fluid flow governing equations for incompressible flows. This module also aims to discuss some key issues related to the use of CFD packages in practical applications

This module covers:

briefing of basic CFD procedure

introduce fluid flow governing equations and their simplified forms

introduce CFD mesh generation

discretisation of governing equations and boundary conditions

introduce temporal discretisation

the solution of discretised equations

CFD software package use

At the end of this module you'll be able to:

be familiar with the basis for the key equations of CFD for incompressible flow in finite volume form

understand in principle how these equations may be discretised and solved numerically

apply commercial CFD package to simple two-dimensional engineering problem

Assessments are in the form of exam.

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Advanced Marine Structures

This module aims to provide you with an understanding of the response of surface ships, at both a global and a local level. Structural analysis and design will both be discussed.

This module will teach the following:

introduction to ship structures and structural design principles

loads acting on ship structures

longitudinal strength of surface ships

analysis and design of columns and beam-columns

analysis and design of un-stiffened and stiffened plated structures

design of hull girder mid-ship section components from first principles

On completion of this module, you'll have gained:

an understanding of the nature of ship hull structures, the role of various components and ship structural design issues

an understanding of load action and its effects at a local and a global level

an understanding of how to analyse the global response of surface ships

an understanding of the basics of ship hull girder analysis at a local level

an understanding of a systematic ship structural design procedure at a global level

Assessment and feedback are in the form of a two-hour exam. You need to gain an overall mark of 50% to pass the module.

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Maritime Safety & Risk

This module aims to demonstrate how the principles and methods of risk analysis are undertaken and reflected in safety assessment. Risk analysis offers a variety of methods, tools and techniques that can be applied in solving problems covering different phases of the life cycle of a vessel (design, construction, operation and end-of-life) and, as such, this module will also elaborate on the practicalities of its application to a range of marine scenarios.

This module covers:

safety, risk and risk analysis; key terminology; lessons learnt from past experience; human factors.

formal safety assessment

hazard Identification

frequency analysis and consequence modelling

quantitative risk assessment methods

risk control and decision support, cost benefit analysis

human Factors and Safety culture in the maritime

industry guest lectures addressing topical issues related to maritime safety and risk

At the end of this module you'll be able to:

understand the concepts and importance of safety, risk and of all requisite fundamentals enabling quantification of risk in the maritime context

utilise methods and tools undertaking fundamental studies, specific to any component, system or function and in general first-principles implementation to life-cycle design

understand and have experience of the use of risk analysis in the marine field via related case studies (risk-based ship design, operation and regulation).

be able to appreciate components of a formal safety assessment and apply it for indicative problems of maritime operations

Assessment and feedback are in the form of one final exam (during Semester-2 diet) and two coursework assignments (assignment-one focusses on accident investigation, assignment-two is a safety assessment case study).

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Dynamics of Floating Offshore Installations

This module aims to provide knowledge in order to understand the factors influencing the dynamic behaviour of floating offshore structures due to environmental forces. It also aims to develop skills in order to predict the dynamic motion response of floating offshore platforms.

This module will teach the following:

Overview of basic design concepts; environmental design considerations; wave, wind and current induced motions and loads; second-order wave induced forces and responses of floating and complaint structures; soil-structure interaction.

On completion of the module the you're expected to be able to:

predict the environmental forces and resulting motions of semi-submersibles, floating production, storage and offloading systems, tension leg platforms, SPAR buoys and fixed lattice and gravity type platforms

determine the soil-structure interaction for the design of a foundation for a gravity base structure

Assessment and feedback is in the form of an exam: problem-solving on prediction of wave excitation forces on and resulting motions of floating structures and/or the assessment of a foundation of a gravity base structure.

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Design & Construction of Floating, Production, Storage & Offloading Vessels

This module aims to introduce the shipbuilding technologies and equipment used in the construction of FPSO vessels. It will also provide an introduction to the ship design process as applied to FPSO vessels.

This module will teach the following:

FPSO Construction:

overview of facilities for shipbuilding

the shipbuilding process including the integration of hull construction, outfitting and painting

the role of product definition

FPSO Design:

functional requirements and design drivers

typical layouts and sizes

hullform and marine system arrangements

platform-topsides interfaces

comparison of new-build and conversion approaches

design process and schedules

On completion of the module the you're expected to be able to:

understand the technologies and processes involved in constructing FPSO vessels

appreciate the interaction between design and construction of FPSO vessels, especially in relation to conversions

understand the relationships between functional requirements and design solutions for FPSO vessels

demonstrate their awareness of the importance of marine systems and the platform-topsides interface in a successful solution

Assessment and feedback are in the form of coursework. You'll carry out the coursework in groups using the knowledge taught during lectures and tutorials and by referring to the other literature resources.

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Group Project

This module aims to give you a good understanding of all aspects of research work. In addition, the technological study must be accompanied by survey of the relevance and applicability of the findings to the maritime industries at large. You'll learn efficient ways to gather information, to distribute workload and to delegate, to analyse your results and to appreciate the broader implications of the whole project. In-depth technological studies will be accompanied by increasingly important competence in managerial skills, quality assurance and a sound appreciation of the economic, political, social and environmental issues crucial to professional success.

The module will teach the following:

a detailed structure for the class is outlined in the Project Brief presented to the students. This includes details of key milestones and assessment criteria

the project brief is reviewed each session to reflect changing technical and economic opportunities in the fields of activity embraced by the Department’s MSc courses

On completion of the module you're expected to be able to:

develop a broad but nevertheless critical review of prospects for techno-economic growth in maritime related activities in a particular context/area of the world

propose and evaluate specific design-related activities with a view to proposing a future research and/or development project in, for example, key areas such as offshore hydrocarbon support; marine construction/repair diversification; or maritime transportation, tourism and leisure

present a research/development proposal to a panel drawn from industry and academia and defend the recommendations

The assessment for each group member will be made through continuous project management, the submission and presentation of the interim report as well as the submission and presentation of the final report and peer assignment.

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Learning & teaching

There are two teaching semesters of 11 weeks each.

Course modules are delivered in the form of formal lectures supported with tutorials and laboratory experiments.

You’re required to attend an induction prior to the start of the course.

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Guest lectures

During term time, we arrange weekly seminars in which leaders and pioneers of the maritime, oil and gas and marine renewables industries visit the department and present to students. This is a great way of supplementing your education with the latest developments and gaining industry contacts for your future career.

Industrial visits are also made to a variety of companies.

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Assessment

There are two types of method for module assessment. One is course work assessment only, the other is exam assessment. For examined modules the final assessment mark consists of 30-40% course work marks and 60-70% exam marks.

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Student competitions

The Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean & Marine Engineering supports and promotes students in various competitions and awards, from cash bursaries for top performing students to the highest of awards from international organisations.

In recent years, our students have been triumphant in the following high profile competitions:

Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year (SET Awards)

Best Maritime Technology Student (SET Awards)

Double winner of BP’s Ultimate Field Trip Competition

Strathclyder of the Year