Program Overview

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Program Overview

The MEng Naval Architecture with High Performance Marine Vehicles program is designed to create designers with core skills in ship design, construction, operation, and maintenance, as well as specialization in the creative design and engineering of high-performance leisure and commercial vehicles.

Key Facts

• UCAS Code: H521
• Accreditation: Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology
• Second-year entry: Available for suitably-qualified students
• Ranking: 8th in the world for Marine/Ocean Engineering (Shanghai Rankings Academic Ranking 2023)

Why This Course?

Marine vehicles have developed dramatically in recent years, with a focus on lighter, faster, stronger, greener, and safer designs using advanced materials and technology combined with creative design engineering. This course aims to equip students with the skills to design and engineer such high-performance marine vehicles.

What You'll Study

The program covers a wide range of topics, including:

• Engineering science and the fundamentals of naval architecture
• Buoyancy and floatation, stability, ship types, and terminology
• Resistance and propulsion, ship structural analysis, ship design, and marine engineering systems
• Business and management subjects
• 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

Years 1 & 2

• Common core on which more specialist knowledge is built
• Possibility to change course
• Study of engineering science, fundamentals of naval architecture, and basic naval architecture subjects

Years 3 & 4

• More advanced subjects related to the design of high-performance marine vehicles
• Study of state-of-the-art tools for analyzing the water flow around ship hulls
• Prediction of stresses and strains in the hull structure and the behavior of ships in waves
• Specialized individual project on a subject chosen by the student

Work Placement

• Opportunities for work placements during summer holidays
• Close links with industry provide many work placement and internship opportunities

Facilities

• Access to:
  • Catalina, the departmental racing yacht
  • 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

• Support and promotion of students in various competitions and awards
• Opportunities for cash bursaries, awards from international organizations, and recognition in high-profile competitions

Student Mentoring

• The Orchid programme, a mentoring programme for students managed by students
• Aims to assist students in achieving academic goals and graduating with honors

Open Days & Events

• Insight, a half-day introduction to the department
• Question and answer session with a member of staff
• Opportunities to discover more about degree programs and the department

Accreditation

• Accredited by the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology and Royal Institution of Naval Architects jointly on behalf of the Engineering Council for purposes of fully meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered Engineer

Course Content

• Year 1:
  • Engineering Mechanics
  • Introduction to Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
  • Analysis Tools for Marine Design
  • Mathematics 1B
  • Mathematics 2B
  • Elective Classes
• Year 2:
  • Hydrostatics & Stability of Marine Vehicles
  • Marine Engineering Fundamentals
  • Principles of Marine Design & Production
  • Analysis & Design of Marine Structures 1
  • Engineering Applications for Naval Architects & Marine Engineers
  • Mathematics 3B
  • Fluid Mechanics in Naval Architecture, Ocean & Marine Engineering
• Year 3:
  • Professional Development & Marine Business
  • Marine Design
  • Hydrodynamics, Resistance & Propulsion
  • Marine Engineering Systems & Control
  • Analysis & Design of Marine Structures 2
  • The Marine Environment
  • Yacht and Powercraft Design
  • Business Concepts & International Merchant Shipping
• Year 4:
  • Seakeeping & Manoeuvring
  • Theory & Practice of Marine CFD
  • Finite Element Analysis of Marine Structures
  • High-Performance Marine Structures
  • High-Performance Sailing Yachts
  • High-Speed Ships
  • High-Performance Marine Vehicles Engineering Project
• Year 5:
  • Group Design Project
  • Advanced Marine Design
  • Waterborne Transportation Systems
  • The Maritime Regulatory Framework
  • Renewable Marine Energy Systems
  • On-board Energy Management and Environment Protection
  • Dynamics of High-Performance Marine Vehicles
  • Computational Free Surface Hydrodynamics
  • Systems Availability & Maintenance

Learning & Teaching

• Main methods of teaching: lectures, tutorials, laboratory, and group design classes
• Average of 20 hours of these per week
• Self-study is important and develops confidence to tackle unfamiliar problems
• Field trips provide first-hand experience of industrial activities in the marine sector

Assessment

• Main method of assessment: exams in January and May
• Presentations, laboratory reports, and other forms of coursework are submitted and marked individually throughout the year
• Each teaching year has two semesters of 10 weeks, including formal lectures, tutorials, laboratory, and coursework assignments

Entry Requirements

• Standard entry requirements: AAAA or AAABB (Maths A and Physics or Engineering Science at B)
• Minimum entry requirements: ABBB or BBBBB (Maths and Physics or Engineering Science)
• Advanced Highers: Maths and Physics recommended
• A Levels: Year 1 entry: AAB-BBB (Maths and Physics), Year 2 entry: A*AA-AAB (Maths and Physics at A)
• International Baccalaureate: Year 1 entry: 36-32 (Maths HL5, Physics HL5), Year 2 entry: 38-34 (Maths HL6, Physics HL6)
• HNC/HND: Entry to BEng in the first instance
• International students: View the entry requirements for your country
• English language requirements: If English is not your first language, please visit our English language requirements page for full details

Fees & Funding

• Scotland: £1,820
• England, Wales & Northern Ireland: £9,535
• 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: £29,350
• Scholarship opportunities: In addition to the University’s extensive scholarship portfolio, our department has several organizations offering sponsorships and scholarships to students each year
• University preparation programme fees: International students can find out more about the costs and payments of studying a university preparation programme at the University of Strathclyde International Study Centre
• Additional costs: Course materials & costs, placements & field trips, other costs

Careers

• With skills including analytical, numeracy, and problem-solving, Naval Architecture and High Performance Marine Vehicles graduates are suited to a wide range of career opportunities
• Our graduates work in Defence, Marine Designers, Oil and Gas – subsea, on-shore/off-shore, Ship classification, Technical Services, Engineering consulting
• Job titles include Naval Architect, Junior Naval Architect, Ship Surveyor, Marine Engineer, and Project Engineer
• Some graduates go on to postgraduate study or research

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• 94% of students were satisfied overall with their course
• 94% of students say teaching staff have supported their learning well
• 80% in work or doing further study 15 months after the course