MSE Degree of NAME

There are two options for the Master's Degree, one with a thesis and one based on course work only.

Thesis Option
Requires 30 credit hours, out of which no less than 15 credit hours have to be taken at the 6000 level and out of which 6 credit hours are reserved for thesis work

Course Work Option
Requires 33 hours, out of which at least 18 credit hours are to be taken at the 6000 level

Students of Naval Architecture will choose at least 18 hours of engineering courses. The School of NAME others the following graduate level courses:

Course	No.	Credits
Ship and Offshore Structures II	NAME 4120	3 cr
Analysis and Design of Floating Offshore Structures	NAME 4121	3 cr
Introduction to Marine Composites	NAME 4122	4 cr
Marine Engineering II	NAME 4130	3 cr
Reliability, Availability and Maintenance of Engineering Systems	NAME 4131	3 cr
Management of Ship Life-Cycle	NAME 4132	3 cr
Ship Production	NAME 4133	3 cr
Curved Surface Design	NAME 4141	3 cr
Small Craft Design	NAME 4151	4 cr
Ship Hydrodynamics II	NAME 4160	3 cr
Ship and Offshore Platform Dynamics II	NAME 4162	3 cr
Advanced Marine Vehicle Design	NAME 4177	3 cr
Systems Engineering	NAME 6080	3 cr
Marine Structural Vibration	NAME 6121	3 cr
Advanced Offshore Engineering	NAME 6125	3 cr
Parametric Hull Modeling and Shape Optimization	NAME 6145	3 cr
Numerical Methods in Hydrodynamics	NAME 6160	3 cr
Advanced Ship / Offshore Platform Motions	NAME 6164	3 cr
Probabilistic Ship / Offshore Platform Dynamics	NAME 6166	3 cr
High Speed Hydrodynamics	NAME 6168	3 cr
Design of Fixed Offshore Structures	NAME 6175	3 cr

Additional graduate courses are offered as special topics depending upon the interest of the faculty and students. For example, Human Factors Engineering has been taught during the last several semesters.

Students can also take courses in other departments in the College of Engineering (e.g., courses on viscous flows, turbulence, Computational Fluid Dynamics, structural dynamics, Finite Elements Methods, materials, engineering management, etc.) or related mathematics and science courses.