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Course code

MENG 310

 

Course credit

1.00

 

Covers hull geometry and hydrostatics, intact and damaged stability, resistance and propulsion, seakeeping, and the structural response of a hull to a seaway.

Submerged vehicles are treated alongside surface vessels rather than as an appendix. The stability problem differs fundamentally — a submerged body has no waterplane and therefore no metacentric restoring mechanism — and students who will work on autonomous vehicles need that distinction established early.

R/V *Cascadia Strait* serves as the worked example for the surface vessel material, including her actual stability booklet. Students calculate quantities they can then verify against the ship.



Instructors

[Dr. Priya Iyer](/person/dr-priya-iyer)

 

 

Prerequisite

MENG 230.



 

Terms offered

fall

 

 

Offering frequency

annually