Course Information

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the shipbuilding industry and its sectors.
• Ensure that ship designs are production friendly and suited to each shipyards capabilities.
• Describe the ship building process including various building approaches.
• Understand shipyard layouts and assembly strategies to optimize material and work flow.
• Appreciate to cost drivers and cost estimating approaches.
• Have a thorough understanding of the various fabrication and assembly techniques used in shipbuilding.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Characterize a sea condition in standard terms of sea state.
• Predict the wave-induced motions of a ship.
• Present ship motions in standard tabular and graphical ways.
• Calculate the total sea-induced operability of a ship, for specific missions and operating conditions.
• Describe the principles of operation of rudders and other control surface, and apply semi-empirical models to predict performance.
• Model and analyze maneuvering behaviour of ships, including estimating turning radius, motion stability, and course keeping, using linear and non-linear methods.
• Interpret hydrodynamic derivatives and use them to describe ship characteristics.
• Describe the principles of operation of simple automatic control systems and the influence of common control strategies and parameters on ship response.
• Simulate ship dynamics and control using MATLAB and Simulink.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Apply basic concepts for the bending of beams and plates to complex structures such as ships or buildings.
• Apply basic concepts of shear stresses in complex structures, including shear flow and shear lag effects.
  Predict buckling of columns, plates and shells as applied to ships or buildings.
• Analyze beam and plate bending and buckling using the finite element method, analytically for simple constructions and using software for complex structures.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Apply theoretical principles of leadership and organization behaviour in a variety of organizational contexts and industries.
• Diagnose organizational behaviour and people management challenges and find solutions that deliver business results and ensure employee engagement.
• Understand what it takes to build effective manager-employee relationships, given the realities of power, motivation and commitment in an organizational setting.
• Develop and present recommendations for organizational leadership challenges using the case study analysis approach.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Understand strategic decision making and organization innovation processes.
• Analyze business situations using relevant concepts and tools.
• Understand business approaches for managing strategy and innovation programs and projects.
• Create and present plans for solutions to organizationally important challenges.
• Communicate effectively about planning and delivering on strategy and innovation.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Discuss data analytics and data visualization principles and methods.
• Design and develop interactive visualizations and dashboards using Tableau.
• Use advanced features and functionalities of Tableau.
• Present and communicate analysis findings to different target audiences.
• Understand how to clean and transform different kinds of data to facilitate exploration and analysis
• Design and develop interactive visualizations and dashboards using Tableau.
• List use cases for effective visual analytics.
• Recognize issues related to ethics, privacy, governance, provenance and integrity when working with data.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Develop a project proposal with specific goals and objectives.
• Write a professional report based on the technical analysis of a complex Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering case study.
• Professionally communicate the key findings of a project both orally and in a written format.
• Apply the technical and business knowledge acquired from the MEL program to a real-world problem.
• Build and/or extend their professional network by interacting with industry mentor(s).
• Get insights into the Canadian marine industry.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Apply theoretical principles of business in a variety of contexts.
• Analyze and discuss common business situations encountered by managers from multiple angles using the case study analysis approach.
• Appreciate the importance of each of the functional areas, as well as the inter-connectedness of business decision-making.
• Appreciate the importance of excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Understand the importance of effective team work and strong ethical standards in management.
• Plan and present effective and meaningful presentations.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Extend the study of thermodynamics through the Second Law treatment of power cycles and waste heat recovery.
• Provide an understanding of the operating principles, characteristics, and limitations of marine reciprocating engine, steam turbine, and gas turbine prime movers.
• Provide a familiarity with marine mechanical and electrical power transmission and the fundamental design principles and characteristics of mechanical gearing.
• Provide a fundamental understanding of marine electrical power generation, distribution, and use.
• Provide an understanding of and facility in matching marine power sources (prime movers, motors, and pumps) with their associated loads (propulsors, functional loads, and fluid systems).
• Provide a fundamental understanding of marine machinery vibration including excitation and mitigation.
• Provide a fundamental understanding of the characteristics and design of marine fluid systems including selection and sizing of pumps and heat exchangers.
• Understand the fundamentals of heat transfer as applied to conduction and heat exchanger selection and design.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Understand the Design Process.
• Understand the naval architect’s role in protecting the owner’s investment.
• Understand the naval architect’s role in protecting the marine environment.
• Understand a ship’s life cycle.
• Understand consultant cost structures.
• Understand the features that make well-written requirements.
• Determine a ship’s Principal Dimensions.
• Be familiar with Ship Work Breakdown System (SWBS).
• Develop a ship’s space requirements.
• Develop a ship’s weight estimate.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Know all the principles, terms and coefficients related to the profession of Naval Architecture.
• Develop a table of offsets and set of ship lines.
• Be proficient at calculating the draft and trim angle for a vessel under various loading conditions.
• Determine the vessel’s stability characteristics for both undamaged and damaged conditions.
• Determine the vessel’s stability characteristics when some fraction of her weight rests on the ground.
• Understand and predict a vessel’s resistance based on model test data and computer modelling.
• Be familiar with propulsion selection techniques including propeller charts.
• Be familiar with modern computer software techniques for vessel resistance prediction.