About Meng Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering in 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.

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 shipbuilding yard in South Korea
• group work experience visits to shipbuilding 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

Facilities

As a student, you'll have access to:

• Catalina - our departmental racing yacht
• the largest ship model experiment tank in any UK university
• towing/wave tank exclusively for teaching purposes
• marine engine laboratory
• hydrogen fuel cell laboratory
• cutting-edge computer facilities
• industry-standard software

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.

Academic qualification equivalents

• For entry to Strathclyde undergraduate programmes we'd look for 70-75% in all subjects taken at level XII and the same at level X. 

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS   :    6.0 overall, with a minimum of 5.5 in each component
• TOEFL :     73-79 overall, with the following minimum scores in each component: Listening: 17 Reading: 18 Speaking: 20                               Writing: 19
• PTE      :     54-57 overall, with a minimum of 51 in each component

University of Strathclyde Highlights

University of Strathclyde Average Tuition Fees And Other Expenses

Fee for various range of courses available at the university varies as per their duration, level and type of program. Some of the popular courses with their respective fees are as mentioned below.

Undergraduate Courses (2020-2021)

Graduate Courses (2020-2021)

Cost of Living

List of expenses apart from the basic tuition fee are as compiled below.

Note that candidates looking for their private rented accommodation will require 100 to 125 GBP, per week, for a room in a shared plus other expenses.