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