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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.



Course code

MENG 310

 

Course credit

1.00

 

Instructors

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

 

 

Prerequisite

MENG 230.



 

Terms offered

fall

 

 

Offering frequency

annually