Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Skills
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Skills
NA 3 – Ship Resistance & Propulsion
Junior Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Skills Naval Architecture
Decomposes ship resistance components, model-to-full-scale prediction methods, propulsor selection (propellers/waterjets), and hull-propulsor interaction.
NA 6 – Advanced Computational Tools for Naval Architecture
Senior Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Skills Naval Architecture
Prepares students to critically evaluate simplifying assumptions and run advanced commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and FEA software.
NA 7 – Marine Transportation
Senior Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Skills Naval Architecture
Business and economic dimensions of commercial shipping lines, fleet chartering, maritime financial analysis, operations management, and linear programming.
ME 4 – Marine Engineering Applied Thermodynamics
Junior Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Skills Marine Engineering
Thermodynamic and aerodynamic design of combined steam/gas turbine plants, steam turbine fluid flow, and 1D/convective heat transfer.
NA 4 – Ship Structures
Junior Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Skills Naval Architecture
Modern ship structural design and analysis: hull girder loading, classification society rules, yielding/buckling failure, and structural FEA.
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.
NA 5 – Ship Dynamics (NA V)
Senior Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Skills Naval Architecture
Seakeeping responses in irregular wave spectra, strip theory calculations, slamming/deck wetness, calm-water maneuvering stability, and rudder design.
