Sophomore
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Engineering Site Visits
Freshman Junior Senior Sophomore Professionalism & Citizenship Professional Experience
Inspection trips to regional shipyards, drydocks, manufacturing plants, and active commercial and naval vessels to connect theory to practice.
Winter Work Program
Freshman Junior Senior Sophomore Professionalism & Citizenship Professional Experience
Four required eight-week winter internships spanning shipyard trades, sea term cadet placement, and professional engineering office work.
NA 2 – Ship Statics
Sophomore Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Skills Naval Architecture
Hydrostatics of ships covering buoyancy, intact/damaged stability regulations, limiting KG, drydocking calculations, and hydrostatic software tools.
ME 3 – Machine Design
Sophomore Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Skills Marine Engineering
Applies solid mechanics to marine machine elements including shafts, gearing, couplings, clutches, brakes, bolted joints, and fatigue analysis.
ME 2 – Marine Engineering Systems Components
Sophomore Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Skills Marine Engineering
Study of pumps, heat exchangers, valves, piping, HVAC, steering machinery, and auxiliary systems, alongside ship safety and cadet sea term prep.
