BEng Hons Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering at University of Strathclyde

Study with us

• gain skills to tackle engineering challenges on a range of marine vehicles
• access facilities including towing/wave tank
• opportunity to train to use our 33-foot racing yacht
• international work placement opportunities

Why this course?

Naval architects and marine engineers deal with the world’s largest moving structures and most powerful vehicles – from huge ships to sailing yachts, from fast ferries to offshore wind turbines and oil platforms.

Marine engineering is the engineering speciality of design, construction, installation and operation of machinery and propulsion systems for ships and marine structures.

This degree aims to develop engineers capable of dealing with engineering challenges on a wide range of marine vehicles, with additional skills and understanding in the impact and importance of marine engineering on their successful design, construction, repair, and maintenance.

In addition to core naval architecture subjects, you'll study a range of specialised marine engineering subjects, such as control theory and practice, electrical systems, design of marine engines (diesel, diesel-electric and gas turbine), propeller and shafting systems, system design and simulation, green technology and fuel cell technology.

Learning & teaching

The main methods of teaching are lectures, tutorials, laboratory and group design classes. You can expect an average of 20 hours of these per week. You should supplement this with self-study. Self-study is important as it develops the confidence to tackle unfamiliar problems. This is an essential skill for professional engineers.

Throughout the course, field trips will give you first-hand experience of industrial activities in the marine sector.

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.

Graduate achievements

Graduate Peter Dow won the Science, Engineering and Technology Student of the Year Award and best Maritime Technology Award for his excellent fourth year project on carbon capture and storage.

Martin Shaw, a former student of the department, is behind the design of the snake-like Pelamis wave energy device in Orkney.

Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering graduate Phil Kirk works as a Marine Engineer on one of Disney’s huge cruise ships in the Bahamas.

Some graduates go on to postgraduate study or research.