Hi,
My son is interested in Naval Architecture/Ocean Engineering. There are not many schools that offer that major. Does anyone have any information on schools with these majors? He is only a 10th grader but since the choices for schools seem to limited. His dream school would be the Coast Guard or Merchant Marine academy, but with ADHD, a history of migranes, and childhood asthma I think those are not options. He is a solid B+/A- student.
Thanks
Webb Institute?
Use this tool to find ABET accredited “Naval” and “Ocean” engineering programs. Also search on “Marine”.
http://main.abet.org/aps/accreditedprogramsearch.aspx
Some examples:
State University of New York Maritime College
Bronx, NY, US
United States Coast Guard Academy
New London, CT, US
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, MD, US
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, US
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA, US
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL, US
Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, FL, US
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, US
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX, US
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI, US
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI, US
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
More:
Maine Maritime Academy (Marine Systems Engineering is ABET-accredited as Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering)
California Maritime Academy (Mechanical Engineering)
Re: SUNY Maritime College
Students ARE NOT required to join the Corps of Cadets. There are many civilian students at SUNY Maritime. Also, keep in mind that the college offers in-state tuition rates to applicants whom are residents of Eastern Seaboard states that do not operate a public maritime college. In effect, this includeds applicants from New Hampshire to Florida, I believe. Finally, the post-graduation employment rate and salary of SUNY Maritime students is fabulous, on average.
Thanks for the replies. We live in MD so he will be going out of state to pursue this degree. We will probably try to visit a few on East Coast this summer.
The maritime colleges are classified as “regional colleges” by US News.
Note that the criteria that distinguishes between “regional” and “national” colleges in US News is the percentage of degrees issued in professional disciplines. It has nothing to do with geographical reach or reputation, and more to do with an inbred bias in US News. This makes the rankings suspect, but a good source of raw data to use in your own evaluation.
Webb is really small (less than 100 students) and is hard to get into. It is classified as a “specialty college” because the percentage of professional degrees is 100% (I believe the cutoff for that category is anything greater than 80%). Webb is well known among the crowd that can afford to commission their own custom yachts, but not as well known among the CC crowd. No one in their right mind would put out to sea in a yacht designed by a Harvard grad.
Harvey Mudd is on the borderline of 50% professional degrees, so if the percentage of engineering degrees increases by much it could become a “regional” college, based on this classification system.
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/regional-colleges
Mudd isn’t the best choice for this major, they only offer a general engineering major. Not sure why it is even being discussed…
Webb Institute has one major, naval architecture and marine engineering.
There may be some other schools where some naval architecture course work may be found as electives under some other department like mechanical engineering. Examples are MEC ENG 164-168 at Berkeley: http://guide.berkeley.edu/courses/mec_eng/
This search engine is pretty good at finding schools with a specific degree program, but it will not identify schools that have electives that can be used to specialize a more standard degree such as mechanical engineering.
It taps into the ASEE database. It would be interesting to compare the results to the ABET search…
http://www.findengineeringschools.org/Search/Majors/marine_naval.htm
@intparent - it was brought up as an example to help explain the classification system because it is a more recognizable name (outside of engineering circles) than schools like Olin, Rose Hulman, Cooper Union and Webb.
One of the reasons it is more recognizable is its classification.