Maritime engineering
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Build your technical, creative and analytical skills while using our engineering labs, wind tunnels, 138 metre towing tank and professional manufacturing facilities. Get inspired and challenged by engineers at the forefront of their field at a leading UK university for maritime engineering. You'll enter a global marketplace with a passion for creating ways of working in oceans and waterways that are better for the planet.
The courses you can choose to prepare you for a career as a marine engineer and naval architect.
Contribute to research in maritime engineering by completing a PhD with us.
Studying the design of marine craft and structures represents university’s toughest and most exciting engineering challenge. It makes you highly prized in the marketplace.
Practical design teaching takes you on a journey where you apply the theoretical knowledge taught in lectures to realistic design tasks and projects.