This course provides the basis of mechanical drawing using both traditional and computer aided methods. As well there are courses in Electrotechnology, which provide the basics of electrical theory.
Students choose courses appropriate to their discipline.
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.