B Eng in Marine Engineering

Course information:
B Eng in Marine Engineering

Course summary:
South Tyneside College offers a B Eng and B Eng (Hons) degree in Marine Engineering, validated by Northumbria University.
This programme is a top-up degree course that has been designed to enable certificated marine engineers to achieve the academic standard of a degree qualification.

Course content: Energy Conversion
Applied Mechanics
Further Mathematics
Energy Management
Management Law & Society
Marine
Electrics
Naval Architecture
Marine Control
Material Engineering
Further Mechanics
Marine Propulsion Design
Project

Further Mathematical Skills for Engineers STC 264
Laplace transforms, Heaviside Functions linear differential equations; Statistics; quality control; Poisson distribution. Matrices, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, matrix forms of linear differential equations; Fourier series, partial differential equations.

Assessment: 70% Formal examination/30% coursework

Energy Management and Efficiency STC 301
Vapour power cycles. Energy economics. Design parameters for steam condensers and cooling towers. Design of complete air conditioning systems. Refrigeration and heat pump cycles. Fluid mechanics of rotodynamic machines. Gas turbine cycle analysis. Combined heat and power concepts, dual cycles and pinch technology. Hydraulic systems and lubrication. Heat transfer during phase changes. Radiation effect in furnace design.

Assessment: 70% Formal Examination/30% Coursework

Marine Engineering Management, Law and Society

STC 302
Social and economic factors relevant to marine engineering. Professional codes. Health and safety and employment law. Control of noxious products. Marine law, IMO, MARPOL, SOLAS, STCW'95. Personnel, budgetary and project management.

Assessment: 100% coursework

Marine Electrical power systems and Control STC 303
A.C and D.C circuit analysis; circuit testing, marine electrical power systems. Power distribution. Circuit protection. Analysis and control of electrical propulsion systems.

Assessment: 70% Formal examination/30% Coursework

Naval Architecture STC 304
Ship stability, ship resistance. Propulsion and hull design. Sea waves and wave generation, statistical representation. Loading, static and wave bending moments' stresses and deflections, effect of superstructures. Ship motion in waves hull vibration.

Assessment: 70% Formal examination/30% Coursework

Marine Control and Computer Systems STC 305
Linear and non-linear systems modelling; Lumped parameter systems, Controllers, tuning methods, applications of computers in ship control systems. Distributed systems, frequency response, root locus, non linear design methods.

Assessment: 70% Formal examination/30% Coursework

Material Engineering STC 306
Primary and secondary bonding. Solid solutions. Thermal equilibrium diagrams. Isothermal transformations. Welding and the H.A.Z Fatigue mechanism. Polymers and ceramics.

Assessment: 100% Coursework

Marine Propulsion Design STC 310
Design criteria of: main and auxiliary diesel engines, boilers,steam turbines, gas turbines, electrical propulsion systems and shafting systems. The emphasis of this unit is on the part-design utilising mini-projects. Formal inspection utilising Marine Classification rules and procedures.

Assessment: 80% Mini-projects/20% Formal Survey Report

Further Mechanics STC 311
Advanced methods of vibration and stress analysis. Matrix methods, Holtser's method and Rayleigh's principle for thermal, stress and fracture mechanics assessments. Condition monitoring; vibration and acoustic emission.

Assessment: 100% Coursework

Project STC 312
Major independent project of student's choice, Investigating a process or product, with a strong emphasis on engineering.

Assessment: 100% Coursework.

Course structure:
B Eng Degree Programme: Two semesters each of 15 weeks duration.

B Eng (Honours) Degree Programme: A further 15 week semester.

It is recognised that some students will need to defer progression from semester 1 to semester 2 and/or semester 2 to semester 3 to return to their employment. In such cases the BEng should normally be completed within a three-year period and the BEng (Hons) within a four-year period.

Entry requirements:
For entry to the B Eng programme students should normally have one of the following:

a) a Higher National Diploma in Marine Engineering from South Tyneside College or from any other UK institution offering the equivalent course, with a majority unit values at merit grade or above
b) an MCA Class 1 Certificate of Competency

c) qualifications deemed to be of equivalent academic standard to a) or b) above

Qualifications achieved:
B. Eng in Marine Engineering is awarded by Northumbria University.