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2 unusual facts about Naval architecture


Naval architecture

Stability – The ability of a vessel to restore itself to an upright position after being inclined by wind, sea, or loading conditions.

Simpson's rule

It is widely used, for example, by naval architects to numerically integrate hull offsets and cross-sectional areas to determine volumes and centroids of ships or lifeboats.


Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Several more departments to offer graduate and undergraduate courses in different subjects - Water Resources Engineering, Naval architecture & Marine engineering, Industrial & Production Engineering, Petroleum & Mineral Resources Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Glass and Ceramic Engineering- were included in the university at different times.

Edmond Bell

By 1586, he became MP for Aldeburgh, where he was active in mercantile affairs, "investing heavily in privatering", specifically, the building of ships (gunboats) that incorporated advances in Naval Architecture.

Hamble Community Sports College

Hamble College SkillsCentre opened September, 2010, and is offering courses including Construction, Engineering, Sports Science and Marine Engineering.

MCL Mapúa-PTC College of Maritime Education and Training

The Mapúa-PTC College of Maritime Education and Training is a maritime school under Malayan Colleges Laguna established in 2008 in the Philippines which trains students in the fields of Marine Engineering and Marine Transportation.

Webb Institute

Each graduate of Webb Institute earns a Bachelor of Science degree in naval architecture and marine engineering.


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Bill Luders

Born in Stamford, Connecticut, Luders attended The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, then forewent further education to undertake an apprenticeship in naval architecture.

Bob Ames

He is a graduate of the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of Michigan College of Engineering.

Geerd Hendel

Born in Hamburg, Hendel apprenticed for two years at Deutsche Werft shipyard in Hamburg before attending the Higher Technical Institute at Bremen where he specialized in naval architecture.

Marmaduke Stalkartt

Stalkartt's Naval architecture (1781) was divided into seven books: 'Of Whole-Moulding'; 'Of the Yacht'; 'Of the Sloop'; 'Of the Forty-Four-Gun-Ship'; 'Of the Seventy-Four-Gun-Ship'; 'Of the Cutter, and Ending of the Lines'; and 'Of the Frigate'.

Robert Beck

Robert F. Beck (born 1943), professor of naval architecture and marine engineering at the University of Michigan

Royal College of Science

But the scientists pressed the need for much better laboratory space, so the school of naval architecture instead went to Greenwich.

Siegfried Popper

Kaiser Wilhelm II offered him a chair in Naval Architecture at the Technical University of Berlin at Charlottenburg, but Siegfried declined this offer.

Victoria Quay, Scotland

To give perspective to the size of Victoria Quay, VQ is in fact a few feet short of the length of the actual RMS Titanic, and there are some prominent nods to naval architecture in the design of the building.

Viktor Ivančić

A native of Sarajevo, Ivančić edited the student paper of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture at the University of Split.