Newcastle University

Marine Technology with Offshore Engineering MEng Honours
UCAS Code: H356 (4 Years)

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Marine technology is thriving worldwide, and in many areas there are acute shortages of graduates with the right skills.

At Newcastle we have a distinguished reputation amongst employers, having taught marine technology for over a century. 

This professionally-accredited degree is geared to the demands of the offshore engineering industry, but with a solid basis in engineering fundamentals. The MEng is the recommended route for those who wish to achieve CEng (chartered engineer) status.

The offshore world has traditionally been associated with the oil and gas industry, but the expertise of offshore engineers now extends to offshore renewables such as wind farms and tidal energy capture devices, and other sectors such as thermal energy conversion or seabed mineral recovery.

You will gain the ability to design and produce fixed and floating offshore oil and gas production installations, and the crafts which service these and other offshore resource developments.

Professional accreditation

This degree is accredited by the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) and the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, providing industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

See the MEng or BEng section below for more information about professional accreditation and the difference between studying to BEng and MEng level.

Quality and ranking

Marine Technology at Newcastle is ranked second nationally for overall student satisfaction, with an 96% student satisfaction score in the 2012 National Student Survey.

Teaching and assessment

Contact hours will be a combination of lectures, seminars from invited speakers in industry and academia, and practical work. At Newcastle we recognise the importance of first-hand experience and organise a variety of visits during your studies. This is a formal component of some modules and ensures that you see the applications of marine technology in a range of organisations, including local and national marine production facilities, offshore rigs, and platform building sites.

Teaching and assessment methods may vary from module to module, more information can be found in our individual module listings. Further information can be found on our undergraduate web pages about the approach to teaching and learning at Newcastle University.

Flexible degree structure

All of our marine technology students study the same programme for the first year. One of our strengths is that we teach engineering in a marine context right from the start through specialist topics such as:

• marine statistics
• marine informatics
• marine production management
• materials in the marine environment
• marine mechanics

We also cover topics relating to the ship’s internal systems (marine engineering) as well as the design, production and operation of ships (naval architecture) to make sure that you gain a firm foundation in all the core engineering topics.

Transfer between any of our marine technology degrees is possible up to the beginning of Stage 2, though you must achieve the appropriate academic standard to transfer from a BEng to an MEng degree.

Facilities

Many of our facilities are unique to Newcastle University and include:

• the only operational cavitation tunnel in the UK, used for testing models of ship propellers and other propulsion devices, submarine vehicles and the immersed parts of other marine structures
• a 37-metre towing tank for ship model experiments conveniently located within the School
• a combined wind, wave and current tank for complex modelling of the full marine environment

We also have:

• a brand-new £1m research catamaran, Research Vessel, The Princess Royal, which was designed in-house by staff and students in the School of Marine Science and Technology
• a hydrodynamics laboratory with wave-making and electronic recording equipment
• engineering laboratories, which include facilities to test diesel engines
• a dedicated computer cluster running specialist marine design software
• a specialist technical library and archive

Visit the School of Marine Science and Technology's website to find out more about our facilities.

School of Marine Science and Technology

At Newcastle, you will join a vibrant, global community of staff and students in the School of Marine Science and Technology. We have staff and students representing over 50 nationalities. This will provide you with valuable international connections.

You will also benefit from networking opportunities through the local joint branch of Naval Architects and the IMarEST, which is hosted in the School.

There is an active student society, WETSOC, which organises social activities, trips abroad, visits from employers and trips to conferences around the country. The School also organises trips during the summer vacation, including visits to our marine campus in Singapore.