Teaching
Courses
Fall Semester
OE3015 - Ship Structural Analysis
By the end of this course, the student will be able to:
Understand and explain the need for a rationally based approach of structural design for ships
Assess the strength of a ship hull girder to still water and wave loads
Analyse the effectiveness of hull girder, hull module and various principal members like columns, plates and stiffened panels
Evaluate the safety and reliability of various levels of a ship structure
Create a computer program to calculate the structural loads acting on a hull girder during operation in irregular seas
Spring Semester
OE3036 - Maneuvering and Control of Marine Vehicles
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
Derive the governing equations of motion of any general marine vehicle
Simulate the maneuvering motions of a marine vehicle in MATLAB
Characterize and analyze the parameters affecting motion stability of marine vehicles
Explain the principle and importance of various maneuvering model tests in design of marine vehicles
Design the rudder and control surfaces of a ship
Characterize the motion control problem for a marine vehicle
Design, develop and tune a PID controller for a marine vehicle
Successfully simulate and demonstrate the combined dynamics of a marine vehicle and a controller
OE5055 - Ship Dynamic Positioning Systems
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
Derive the governing equations of motion of any general marine vehicle
Explain the important characteristics of Dynamic Positioning problem
Model the dynamics of a DP vessel in MATLAB
Design an observer and controller using MATLAB
Model the propeller and thruster dynamics
Design an integrated controller for DP objective