As a naval architecture student, you’ll learn to predict the stability and safety of ships, as well as their strength, speed, powering and propulsion requirements. You’ll discover how to calculate the motions of ships and other floating structures in rough seas, and how to estimate their reliability and safety in extreme conditions. Ocean engineering deals with the technical aspects of fixed and floating marine structures and systems related to harnessing ocean resources. These include offshore oil and gas and the rapidly expanding area of ocean renewable energy, as well as other ocean resource activities such as subsea mining and aquaculture. The degree aims to develop graduates capable of dealing with engineering challenges on a wide range of marine vehicles from tankers, bulk carriers, container ships and giant cruise liners to tidal current turbines and oil/gas platforms.  In addition to core naval architecture subjects, you'll study a range of specialised ocean engineering subjects and subjects related to the design of novel ship and offshore structures such as risk management and reliability analysis, station-keeping and control and sub-sea engineering. For BEng students with the appropriate level of academic performance the opportunity to transfer on MEng programme is available. Work placement Lots of our students go on work placements during the summer holidays. Due to our close links with industry, there are many work placement and internship opportunities for students. Previous work placement opportunities include: student internships at Samsung Heavy Industries ship building yard in South Korea group work experience visits to ship building yards in China numerous summer internships with various high-profile companies in the maritime and oil & gas industries research internships within our own world class research centre

With skills including analytical, numeracy and problem-solving Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering graduates are suited to a wide range of career opportunities. Recent job titles include: Naval Architect Ocean Engineer Subsea Engineer Marine Surveyor Offshore Renewables Engineer Project Engineer