Marine Engineering question

[parker1842]

I am a little confused on the 3 engineering majors the academy offers.

From my basic understanding, the Marine Engineering System major focuses on power plants and associated systems while the Marine Engineering Shipyard Management major focuses on the construction of ships, but I am confused on what the Marine Engineering major does?

Also, which engineering major is the hardest?

 

[joriebelle]

"Marine engineering major prepares midshipmen to serve as licensed officers in the US Merchant Marine and provides an engineering education that qualifies them for a wide variety of professional positions including the career field of ship operations, marketing, maintenance, repair and survey. It focuses on the operation and applied aspects of the marine engineering profession. The Marine Engineering program is the Academy's core engineering program and includes three electives. " Engineering Systems and Shipyard Management build upon the basic marine engineering program. Both of those majors add on a Capstone project senior year.

 

[cmakin]

I am a little confused on the 3 engineering majors the academy offers.

From my basic understanding, the Marine Engineering System major focuses on power plants and associated systems while the Marine Engineering Shipyard Management major focuses on the construction of ships, but I am confused on what the Marine Engineering major does?

Also, which engineering major is the hardest?

Are you concerned which is the hardest, or easiest. Some of this has changed since my day, but we did have the Marine Engineering System major available to us, as we where the first class with it. As I was told, the Systems track allows you to later test to be Professional Engineer. I feel that Shipyard Management is self explanatory. Regular Marine Engineering in my day was more focused on the skills needed to sail as a marine engineer, and I believe that is still the case. I can say that even just the Marine Engineering track made a decent engineer out of a slightly mechanically included kid like me. Don't worry about which one is hardest. . . they are all challenging.

 

[KPEngineer]

Straight engine may be sold as being geared towards sailing but all are decent Engineering educations. I was straight engine but I've also dug out my MatSci book in the last five years to look over strength/strain curves.

The straight Marine Engineering is the baseline engineering major with the S/Y and Systems majors building on that. The only structural difference to the curriculums is that for the S/Y or Systems you are committing to a specific structure of elective classes ahead of time. Looking at what is posted on the website it looks to only be about 3 classes. When you look at the "Emphasis of Major" on the website, No. 2 is really the only one the differentiates between the majors.

S/Y goes into some project management and and planning while the Systems major is more about design and is the closest to a Mechanical Engineering degree.

All can pursue graduate degrees in Engineering and PEs

The only one that really provides you anything extra on paper is the Marine Engineering Systems major in that it is the only one that is actually ABET accredited.

 

[cmakin]

Straight engine may be sold as being geared towards sailing but all are decent Engineering educations. I was straight engine but I've also dug out my MatSci book in the last five years to look over strength/strain curves.

The straight Marine Engineering is the baseline engineering major with the S/Y and Systems majors building on that. The only structural difference to the curriculums is that for the S/Y or Systems you are committing to a specific structure of elective classes ahead of time. Looking at what is posted on the website it looks to only be about 3 classes. When you look at the "Emphasis of Major" on the website, No. 2 is really the only one the differentiates between the majors.

S/Y goes into some project management and and planning while the Systems major is more about design and is the closest to a Mechanical Engineering degree.

All can pursue graduate degrees in Engineering and PEs

The only one that really provides you anything extra on paper is the Marine Engineering Systems major in that it is the only one that is actually ABET accredited.

I knew you could explain it better than me. . .

 

[Mr2020]

The only one that really provides you anything extra on paper is the Marine Engineering Systems major in that it is the only one that is actually ABET accredited.

Wrong, I'm a deckie major...but I know that both Shipyard and Systems are ABET accredited.

Might have been different twenty years ago. Also, until 2016 systems majors branched out into nuclear, electrical, and a couple others but they stopped that. Now they are all just Systems majors.

 

[KPEngineer]

Wrong, I'm a deckie major...but I know that both Shipyard and Systems are ABET accredited.

Might have been different twenty years ago. Also, until 2016 systems majors branched out into nuclear, electrical, and a couple others but they stopped that. Now they are all just Systems majors.

Got it, Noted