These courses are designed to prepare students for entry into the second year of the Naval Architecture Technology programme. Graphical skills are refined, and students are introduced to the basics of shipyard operations and design and drawing office practice. Drawing office exercises and labs reinforce theory and shipyard practice in all areas. The second and third years of the programme include technical courses designed to give as broad an education as possible in the discipline, while maintaining concentrated study in basic engineering subjects such as Fluids, Electrotechnology, and Strength of Materials. These courses are used as foundations for the courses in shipbuilding, ship theory and hydrodynamics and the other courses that complete the programme.
All students complete a technical project during the final year of the programme.
This project provides the opportunity for the skills and knowledge obtained during the programme to be applied to a real life problem or design. This programme is designed to graduate students with a variety of strengths that can be used in a large array of employment areas. Communication Skills to support specification writing and the ship design package, and courses in Shipyard Management and Economics. The programme recognizes the increasing role and use of computers in the technologies. Computer application and familiarity with common engineering software is stressed wherever possible.