A07 – Feasibility to Preliminary Naval Ship Design
This course aims to take you through the feasibility-to-preliminary ship design process, connecting mission definition, parametric analysis, hydrostatics, stability, structures and professional deliverables into one coherent design workflow, so you can turn a mission statement into reasoned design outputs and defend them under review.
£299.00
20 hours
Focused, self-paced learning designed to fit around professional schedules.
Online, self-paced
Study online at a pace that fits your schedule.
7 sections
Structured curriculum sections.
English
Language of instruction for this course.
Quiz count: 5 total
Knowledge checks and assessed activities.
26 lessons
Focused lessons organised into a clear learning path.
Course overview
Designed for: engineering graduates looking for refresher courses in niche expert areas.
Entry requirements: an engineering degree or equivalent experience, plus basic ship hydrostatics and stability (displacement, centres of gravity and buoyancy, GM and the GZ curve) and a spreadsheet; the course works in US customary units (feet, long tons).
Learning format: self-paced online lessons with audio read-out, two design case studies compared side by side, worked ratio, weight and stability examples, a mission statement exercise and a data-debugging exercise, interactive tabs and flip cards, in-lesson checks, an AI tutor to answer questions as you go, and graded quizzes. This suits the aim because preliminary design is judged by how well numbers and choices hold up under review, so worked examples and two exercises let you produce and check design outputs as a designer would.
What you will learn
Explain the role of feasibility and preliminary design within the naval ship design process.
Develop a mission statement and parametric basis for a new vessel concept.
Interpret principal dimensions, hydrostatics, and weight data to assess design reasonableness.
Evaluate stability and structural design decisions against naval-architecture criteria.
Organize a professional design submission using authentic naval architecture deliverables and review standards.
Skills and knowledge
Naval architecture
Ship design
Mission analysis
Hydrostatics
Stability
Structures
Design review
Course curriculum
Introduction
1.1 Welcome
Design Sequence and Deliverables
2.1 Why the Sequence Exists
2.2 Individual and Team Briefs
2.3 Assessment and Awards
2.4 Quiz 1 (quiz)
Mission and Parametrics
3.1 Mission Statements in Practice
3.2 Building Design Lanes
3.3 Comparing Isis and Rosamunda
3.4 Mission Statement Exercise
3.5 Quiz 2 (quiz)
Dimensions and Hydrostatics
4.1 Reading Principal Dimensions
4.2 Weights and Centers
4.3 Hydrostatic Reasonableness Checks
4.4 Ratio and Weight Worked Examples
4.5 Data Debugging Exercise
4.6 Quiz 3 (quiz)
Stability Assessment
5.1 Reading the GZ Curve
5.2 Cross Curves and Mismatches
5.3 Dynamic Stability and Section Area
5.4 Stability Worked Examples
5.5 Quiz 4 (quiz)
Structures and Materials
6.1 Rule-Based Scantlings
6.2 Longitudinal Strength Logic
6.3 Professional Design Judgments
6.4 Quiz 5 (quiz)
Summary
7.1 Key Takeaways
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£299.00