This test covers only the knowledge needed to perform the engineering specialty for which registration is sought. Special applications of your talent may be directed toward such fields as combat systems, shipbuilding, or research, development, test and evaluation, which all contribute to the collective expertise required in naval engineering. The following descriptions of these potential areas of a naval engineering career may help you understand their particular challenges. Weapons systems include guns, missiles, torpedoes, and the weapons carried by Navy aircraft. Weapons design, installation, and operation require a variety of disciplines including aeronautical engineering for air frames, chemical engineering for propulsion, electronics engineering for tracking, guiding and controlling, physics for acoustics and electro-optics, and mechanical engineering for loading, rotating and elevating weapons launchers.
Shipbuilding is the process of converting a design into steel.
Each action in building the ship must be defined in detailed drawings and standard procedures. Every shipyard laborer must have direction as to what he must accomplish each day if the ship is to be delivered on time and at cost. Shipyards also do repair, conversion, and modernization, all of which require these same skills. Research, development, test and evaluation offer the naval engineer a unique and creative opportunity to perform collaborative work with scientists. The process of developing an engineering concept begins with fundamental theories and ideas, and proceeds through scientific analyses, feasibility studies, collection and analysis of data, design, simulation and modeling, fabrication, model testing, evaluation at sea, and final adoption.