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MSc - Master of Science
John Anderson Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
1 Year
Ninety percent of world trade is carried by sea. You'll gain an understanding of the subjects essential for effective and efficient management of ships and fleets. This course allows you to develop multidisciplinary interests and skills by working with other areas of naval architecture, ocean and marine engineering.As a graduate you could expect to work in the industry as a technical ship superintendent or manager.
This module aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the marine regulatory framework, including: background to its development; description of the current framework and future enhancements; an in-depth explanation of the theoretical background, nature and meaning of each method of assessment; a quantitative demonstration of the available routes and criteria to assessing safety.
Part one aims to provide you with knowledge and awareness of issues in marine environmental protection, environmentally-friendly shipping and international conventions and regulations of environmental protection and introduce the state of the art technology applied in the industry and future trends. Part two will provide you with knowledge of ship energy management systems and energy resources including the optimisation and integration of machinery and power systems in a sustainable manner.
This class aims to provide you with skills relating to the use of engineering practices in project management with particular respect to the effective and efficient use of resources.
This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the financial and operational issues that companies that manage or own ships in the various sectors of merchant shipping face, both charter and liner shipping. In addition, an acquaintance with maritime sector infrastructures is provided.
This class aims to provide an insight into the qualitative and quantitative systems? reliability techniques as well as maintenance methodologies with particular emphasis to the maritime industry. The course will give students the ability to formulate, solve, report and present a comprehensive maintenance strategy based on the application of reliability and criticality analysis and assessment tools. The module will also provide students with an insight of the day-to-day operations of ships as well as explore and present features related to ships dry-dockings, inspection, repair and maintenance scheduling, regulatory regime as well as practical case studies on the above.
This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the general concepts, advantages and limitations of data-driven methods for naval and marine engineering applications.
This class provides you with an insight into ?marine? materials, their properties, failure and protection and an understanding of how degradation affects the life-cycle of marine and offshore structures. Particular emphasis is on inspection and assessment of inspection results, corrosion, fatigue and fracture of steels and the corrosion properties of high-strength and stainless alloy steels.
