Those courses which carry graduate credit are listed below. A graduate student’s program should be dominated by courses numbered 500 or above. Arabic numeral in parentheses indicates the number of credit hours; (arr) indicates the number of credit hours vary and are arranged with the instructor. Roman numerals indicate the term in which the course is offered (I=Fall, II=Winter, IIIa=Spring Half, IIIb=Summer Half, III=Spring-Summer Full). * Offerings still subject to College of Engineering approval.
- NA 401. SMALL CRAFT DESIGN
Prerequisite: preceded or accompanied by NA 321 and NA 340. I (4 credits)
Hydrodynamics of small high-speed craft including planing hulls, air cushion vehicles, surface effect ships, and catamarans. Theoretical and empirical methods for resistance propulsion and attitude prediction. Nonlinear dynamics and stability of high-speed marine vehicles. Effect of hull form on resistance and dynamic performance. Structural design considerations including bottom plating strength and frame loading. Discussion of various types of framing. Material choices. - NA 403. SAILING CRAFT DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Prerequisite: preceded or accompanied by NA 321. II (4 credits)
Forces and moments acting on a sailing yacht. Speed polar diagrams. Two- and three-dimensional airfoil theory. Application to keel and rudder design. Yacht model testing. Delft Standard Series for prediction of hydrodynamic performance. Aerodynamics of yacht sails. Sail force coefficients. Velocity Prediction Program. Rigging design and analysis. Yacht racing rules. - NA 410 (Mfg 410). MARINE STRUCTURES II
Prerequisite: NA 310. I (4 credits)
Structural modeling and analysis techniques applied to ship and marine structure components. Equilibrium and energy methods applied to elastic beam theory; static bending, torsion and buckling. Shear flow and warping of multicell cross sections. Stiffened and composite plates. Plastic analysis of beams. Thick walled pressure vessels. Course project using finite element analysis. - NA 420 (AOSS 420). ENVIRONMENTAL OCEAN DYNAMICS
Prerequisites: NA 320 or AOSS 305 or CEE 325. I (4 credits)
Physical conditions and physical processes of the oceans; integration of observations into comprehensive descriptions and explanations of oceanic phenomena. Emphasis on wave and current prediction, optical and acoustical properties of sea water, currents, tides, waves and pollutant transport. - NA 421. SHIP MODEL TESTING
Prerequisite: undergraduates only and permission of instructor. I, II, IIIa (to be arranged)
Individual or team project, experimental work, research or directed study of selected advanced topics in ship model testing. - NA 431. MARINE ENGINEERING II
Prerequisite: NA 310, NA 331, NA 332, NA 340. II (3 credits) – Not offered on regular basis –
Integrated treatment of the statics and dynamics of marine power transmission systems. Shafting design and alignment. Bearing selection and lubrication. Propeller excitation, added mass, and damping. Vibration modeling, analysis and evaluations of shafting systems: torsional, longitudinal, and lateral vibrations. - NA 440. MARINE DYNAMICS II
Prerequisite: NA 321, NA 340. II (4 credits)
Dynamic analysis in a fluid environment. Rayleigh’s principle for continuous systems. Equations of motion for ship rigid body dynamics. Wave excitation. Response Amplitude Operator (RAO). Random processes and probability. Motion in irregular seas. Introduction to time series analysis. - NA 470 (Mfg 470). FOUNDATIONS OF SHIP DESIGN
Prerequisite: NA 321, NA 332, NA 340. Co-requisites: NA 310. I (4 credits)
Organization of ship design. Preliminary design methods for sizing and form; powering, maneuvering, and seakeeping estimation; arranging; propulsion; structural synthesis; and safety and environmental risk of ships. Extensive use of design computer environment. Given owner’s requirements, students individually create and report the conceptual/preliminary design for a displacement ship. - NA 475. MARINE DESIGN TEAM PROJECT
Prerequisite: NA 470. II (4 credits)
Small teams of up to 4 students create, develop, and document original marine designs to contract design level. Projects typically involve a ship, yacht, submersible, or offshore system. Involves extensive project planning and weekly progress reporting. Extensive written and oral presentation of the project. Significant design CAD effort.
- NAVARCH 483. Marine Control Systems
Prerequisite: NAVARCH 331, NAVARCH 332 or permission of instructor. (3 credits)
This course covers the theoretical foundation and practical design aspects of marine control systems. Students will be exposed to important system concepts and available analysis and design tools. Fundamental concepts of dynamic behavior and feedback design will be emphasized in the context marine control system applications.
- NA 490. DIRECTED STUDY, RESEARCH AND SPECIAL PROBLEMS
Prerequisite: undergraduate only and permission. I, II, IIIa (to be arranged)
Individual or team project, experimental work or study of selected topics in naval architecture or marine engineering. Intended primarily for students with senior standing. - NA 491. MARINE ENGINEERING LABORATORY I
Prerequisite: NA 310, NA 320, NA 321, NA 331, NA 332, NA 340. I (3 credits)
Instruction in laboratory techniques and instrumentation. Use of computers in data analysis. Technical report writing. Investigation of fluid concepts, hydro-elasticity, marine dynamics, propeller forces, wave mechanics, ship hydrodynamics, and extrapolation of model tests to full scale. - NA 492. MARINE ENGINEERING LABORATORY II
Prerequisite: NA 310, NA 320, NA 321, NA 331, NA 332, NA 340, NA 491. II (2 credits)
Instruction in laboratory techniques and instrumentation. Use of computers in data analysis that includes Fast Fourier transforms. Technical report writing. Investigation of fluid concepts, hydro-elasticity, marine dynamics, propeller forces, wave mechanics, ship hydrodynamics, and extrapolation of model tests to full scale. - NA 510. MARINE STRUCTURAL MECHANICS
Prerequisite: NA 410 or Instructor permission. II (4 credits)
Failure modes encountered in ship and offshore structures. Von Karman plate equations. Geometric and material nonlinear analyses of beams and stiffened plates. Calculus of variations. Effective width and breadth of stiffened plates. Introduction to structural reliability theory with applications to marine structural design. - NA 511. SPECIAL TOPICS IN SHIP STRUCTURE
Prerequisite: prior arrangement with instructor. (to be arranged)
Individual or team project, experimental work, research or directed study of selected advanced topics in ship structure. Primarily for graduate students. - NA 512 (CEE 510). FINITE ELEMENT METHODS IN SOLID AND STRUCTURAL MECHANICS
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing. II (3 credits)
Basic equations of three dimensional elasticity. Derivation of relevant variational principles. Finite element approximation. Convergence requirements. Isoparametric elements in two and three dimensions. Implementational considerations. Locking phenomena. Problems involving non-linear material behavior. - NA 520. WAVE LOADS ON SHIPS AND OFFSHORE STRUCTURES
II (4 credits)
Computation of wave loads on marine vehicles and offshore structures including resistance, diffraction, viscous and radiation forces. Linear theory using panel methods and Green functions. Forces on cylindrical bodies. Morison’s Equation. Nonlinear computation using desingularized method for inviscid flow and Reynold’s averaged Navier-Stokes equation (RANS) for viscous flow. - NA 521. DIRECTED STUDY AND RESEARCH IN MARINE HYDRODYNAMICS
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. (to be arranged)
Individual or team project, experimental work, research or directed study of selected advanced topics in marine hydrodynamics. Primarily for graduate students. - NA 522. EXPERIMENTAL MARINE ENGINEERING
Prerequisite: NA 410 and NA 440 or third-term Graduate Standing. IIIa (3 credits)
Advanced experiments in mechanics, vibrations, dynamics, and hydro-dynamics illustrating concepts of 400 and introductory 500 level NA courses. Typical experiments include full scale experiments using Remote Operated Vehicle; vessel dynamic stability; offshore tower strength and vibrations; high speed planing; Tension Leg Platform hydrodynamic damping. - NA 531. ADAPTIVE CONTROL
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. I (3 credits) – Not offered on regular basis –
Models of systems with unknown or time-varying parameters. Theory and algorithm for online parameter identification. Adaptive observers. Direct and indirect adaptive control. Model reference systems. Design and analysis of nonlinear adaptive control. Application and implementation of adaptive systems. - NA 540. MARINE DYNAMICS III
Prerequisite: NA 340 or equivalent. I (4 credits)
Fundamental analysis of marine dynamical systems. Normal mode analysis. Matrix representation of frequency domain seakeeping equations. Properties of linear gravity waves. Wave forces on marine structures. Linear and non-linear time domain seakeeping, and maneuvering simulations. Nonlinear stability and bifurcation theory applied to mooring and capsizing. Shock mitigation. - NA 550 (AOSS 550). OFFSHORE ENGINEERING I
Prerequisite: NA 420 (AOSS 420). II (4credits)
Design and analysis requirements of off-shore facilities. Derivation of hydrodynamic loads on rigid bodies. Loads on long rigid and flexible cylinders. Viscous forces on cylinders, experimental data, Morison’s equation, Stokes wave theories. Shallow water waves. Selection of appropriate wave theory. Diffraction of waves by currents. Hydrodynamic loads on risers, cables, pipelines and TLP’s. - NA 562 (Mfg 563). MARINE SYSTEMS PRODUCTION BUSINESS STRATEGY & OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Prerequisite: NA 260 or graduate standing. I (4 credits)
Examination of business strategy development, operations management principles and methods, and design-production integration methods applied to the production of complex marine systems such as ships, offshore structures, and yachts. Addresses shipyard and boat yard business and product strategy definition, operations planning and scheduling, performance measurement, process control and improvement. - NA 568 (EECS 568). MOBILE ROBOTICS: METHODS AND ALGORITHMS
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or permission of instructor. I (4 Credits)
Theory and applications of probabilistic techniques for autonomous mobile robotics. This course will present and critically examine contemporary algorithms for robot perception (using a variety of modalities), state estimation, mapping, and path planning. Topics include Bayesian filtering; stochastic representations of the environment; motion and sensor models for mobile robots; algorithms for mapping, localization, planning and control in the presence of uncertainty; application to autonomous marine, ground, and air vehicles. - NA 570 (Mfg 572). ADVANCED MARINE DESIGN
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing required. II (4 credits)
Organization of marine product development; concurrent marine design. Shipbuilding policy and build strategy development. Group behaviors; leadership and facilitation of design teams. General theories and approaches to design. Conceptual design of ships and offshore projects. Nonlinear programming, multicriteria optimization, and genetic algorithms applied to marine design. Graduate standing required. - NA 571 (Mfg 571). SHIP DESIGN PROJECT
Prerequisite: prior arrangement with instructor. I, II, IIIa (to be arranged)
Individual (or team) project, experimental work, research or directed study of selected advanced topics in ship design. Primarily for graduate students. - NA 575 (Mfg 575). COMPUTER-AIDED MARINE DESIGN PROJECT
I, II, IIIa, IIIb, III (2-6 credits), (to be arranged)
Development of computer-aided design tools. Projects consisting of formulation, design, programming, testing, and documentation of programs for marine design and constructional use. - NA 579. CONCURRENT MARINE DESIGN TEAM PROJECT
Prerequisite: NA 460, NA 570, and NA 580. II, IIIa (2-4 credits)
Industrial related team project for Master’s of Engineering Concurrent Marine Design degree program. Student teams will conduct concurrent design project for and in conjunction with industrial or government customer. - NA 580 (Mfg 578). OPTIMIZATION, MARKET FORECAST AND MANAGEMENT OF MARINE SYSTEMS
I (3 credits) – Not offered on regular basis –
Optimization methods (linear, integer, nonlinear, sequential) concepts and applications in the operations of marine systems. Forecasting methods (ARMA, Fuzzy sets, Neural nets) concepts and applications to shipping and shipbuilding decisions. Economics of merchant shipbuilding and ship scrapping. Elements of maritime management: risk and utility theory. Deployment optimization. - NA 582 (Mfg 579). RELIABILITY AND SAFETY OF MARINE SYSTEMS
Prerequisite: EECS 401 or Math 425 or Stat 412. II (3 credits)
Brief review of probability, statistics, trade-off analysis, and elements of financial management. Thorough presentation of the methods and techniques of reliability analysis. Marine reliability, availability, maintenance, replacement, and repair decisions. Safety and risk analysis. FMEA, faulttree and event-tree analysis. Marine applications. - NA 590. READING AND SEMINAR
Prerequisite: permission. I, II, IIIa, IIIb (to be arranged)
A graduate level individual study and seminar. Topic and scope to be arranged by discussion with instructor. - NA 592. MASTERS THESIS (FOR M.S.)
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing. I, II, III, IIIa, IIIb (1-6 credits)
To be elected by Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering students pursuing the master’s thesis option. May be taken more than once up to a total of 6 credit hours. - NA 599. SPECIAL TOPICS IN NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND MARINE ENGINEERING
Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor (1-6 credits)
This is a special topics course that allows new courses to be offered on a trial basis. Topics will vary from term to term and are based on individual instructor’s research interests. - NA 615. SPECIAL TOPICS IN SHIP STRUCTURE ANALYSIS II
Prerequisite: NA 510, prior arrangement with instructor. I, II (to be arranged)
Advances in specific areas of ship structure analysis as revealed by recent research. Lectures, discussions, and assigned readings. - NA 620. COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS FOR SHIP DESIGN
I alternate years (4 credits)
Development of the necessary skills for the hydrodynamic design of hull shapes based on available Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) tools. Topics: Potential Flows (Deeply submerged, Free-surface treatment, Status of CFD solvers), Viscous flows (Basics, Turbulence modeling, Grid generation, Discretization, Numerical techniques, Free-surface, Status of CFD solvers), Design methodologies (Strategies for Wave Resistance, Viscous flows, Total resistance and Optimization work). - NA 792. PROFESSIONAL DEGREE THESIS
I, II, III (2-8 credits); IIIa, IIIb (1-6 credits) - NA 990. DISSERTATION/PRE-CANDIDATE
I, II, III (2-8 credits); IIIa, IIIb (1-4 credits)
Dissertation work by doctoral student not yet admitted to status as candidate. The defense of the dissertation, that is, the final oral examination, must be held under a full-term candidacy enrollment. - NA 995. DISSERTATION/CANDIDATE
Prerequisite: Graduate School authorization for admission as a doctoral candidate. I, II, III (8 credits); IIIa, IIIb (4 credits)
Election for dissertation work by a doctoral student who has been admitted to candidate status. The defense of the dissertation, that is, the final oral examination, must be held under a full-term candidacy enrollment