Program Overview

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MSc Subsea & Pipeline Engineering

The MSc Subsea & Pipeline Engineering program is designed for graduates in naval architecture, offshore engineering, mechanical engineering, and related disciplines who wish to gain advanced knowledge of subsea systems, designs, and installation. This includes systems and equipment such as pipelines, wellheads, drilling rigs, riser and mooring systems.

Key Facts

• Start date: January & September
• Accreditation: RINA / IMarEST
• Study mode and duration: MSc: 12 months full-time
• The University of Strathclyde is ranked 1st in Europe & 3rd in the world for Marine/Ocean Engineering (Shanghai Rankings Academic Ranking 2022)

Why this Course?

This course is for graduates who want to gain advanced knowledge of subsea systems, designs, and installation. It covers systems and equipment such as pipelines, wellheads, drilling rigs, riser and mooring systems.

Accreditation

This course is accredited by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) and The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, (IMarEST) on behalf of the UK Engineering Council.

What you’ll Study

The programme consists of three components:

1. Instructional modules
2. Group project
3. Individual project (MSc only)

Group Project

You’ll be part of a group of three to five people in ‘consultant teams’ for 10 weeks addressing a practical engineering problem. You’ll then have the opportunity to present the report to a panel of industrial experts.

Individual Project (MSc only)

MSc students will take on an individual dissertation on a topic of their own interest. The aim of the individual project is to develop your research skills and to combine many of the aspects learned from other modules within a specific topic.

Facilities

We have excellent teaching facilities including:

• Catalina – our departmental racing yacht
• Kelvin Hydrodynamics Lab – the largest ship-model experiment tank in any UK university
• Towing/wave tank exclusively for teaching purposes
• Marine engine laboratory
• Cutting-edge computer facilities
• Industry standard software

Student Competitions

NAOME supports and promotes students in various competitions and awards, from cash bursaries for top performing students to the highest of awards from international organisations.

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
• Electives

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).

Marine Pipelines

This module aims to provide you with an in-depth insight into marine pipelines, emphasising the overall design process, pipeline hydraulics analysis, installation methods, environmental loading and stability, materials selection, and corrosion prevention.

Risk & Reliability Engineering

This module aims to introduce the principles of risk management and reliability engineering and solve relevant engineering problems through widely applied methods and tools.

Design & Construction of FPSOs

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.

Dynamics of Fixed & Floating Offshore Structure

The module will teach the overview of basic design concepts.

Marine Pipeline Integrity

The aims of this module are to enable you to identify the key threats to marine pipeline systems, introduce the basic engineering tools and principles used in the integrity assessment of pipelines, develop skills in the assessment of cracks, dents and corrosion defects in pipelines under static and dynamic loading conditions.

Maritime Safety & Risk

This module aims to demonstrate how the principles and methods of risk analysis are undertaken and reflected in safety assessment.

Group Design Project

The overall aim of the module is to provide you with an enriched experience in the selection, conceptualisation and designing of a novel vessel or an offshore asset.

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.

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.

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 when needed.

Guest Lectures

During term time, we arrange seminars in which industry experts visit the department and present to students.

Assessment

There are two types of method for module assessment. One is course work assessment only, the other is exam assessment.

Entry Requirements

• Academic requirements: Normally a first-class or second-class honours degree (or international equivalent) in a relevant subject.
• English language requirements: If English is not your first language, please visit our English language requirements page for full details of the requirements in place before making your application.

Fees & Funding

All fees quoted are for full-time courses and per academic year unless stated otherwise.

• Scotland: £10,800
• England, Wales & Northern Ireland: £10,800
• Republic of Ireland: If you are an Irish citizen and have been ordinary resident in the Republic of Ireland for the three years prior to the relevant date, and will be coming to Scotland for Educational purposes only, you will meet the criteria of England, Wales & Northern Ireland fee status.
• International: £27,500

Careers

Offshore hydrocarbon activities are moving into areas of water depths exceeding 2000m. Subsea drilling, production and control systems are becoming much more important. Therefore, subsea engineers are in great demand world-wide.

• Job titles include:
  • Drilling Fuel specialist
  • I-Drill Engineer
  • Junior Riser Engineer
  • Subsea Engineer
  • Well Engineer
  • Project Engineer
• Employers include:
  • 2H Offshore
  • Aker Solutions
  • BP
  • ENI Saipem
  • Subsea7
  • Talisman Energy
  • Technip
  • Schlumberger

Glasgow

Glasgow is Scotland's biggest & most cosmopolitan city. Our campus is based right in the very heart of Glasgow. We're in the city centre, next to the Merchant City, both of which are great locations for sightseeing, shopping and socialising alongside your studies.