ME 6 – Ship Propulsion Systems
Complete machinery plant design supporting the vessel designed in the Ship Design sequence, vendor component selection, and diesel engine lab analysis.
This course includes a detailed analysis of diesel engines, a review of gas turbines, and completion of a machinery plant design for the vessels used in the Ship Design sequence. This design exercise draws on all the prior marine engineering courses as well as the student’s shipboard experience, in that all the propulsion and auxiliary equipment items are selected from vendor information, and the related machinery systems are designed to support them. A lab sequence involving hands-on work with low-speed and high-speed diesels is included. Four hours of class and two hours of laboratory per week in the first semester.