Course overview

If you're interested in sailing and boating, and are keen to become a yacht designer, then this respected engineering degree could be ideal.

Delivered by highly qualified, award-winning staff, this course maintains close links with the yacht and small craft industry. Indeed, with extensive design experience on tap, you'll emerge as a graduate with the analytical and design skills of a naval architect.

The course seeks to complement your existing practical sailing and boatcraft knowledge, and combines theory and practice in an ideal location. Southampton Solent University is close to the thriving Port of Southampton and its successful business community, and is therefore a superb place for extra practical experience.

You'll gain access to our industry-standard facilities in the City Centre and Warsash Maritime Academy, where you can develop your design skills using computer aided design (CAD) and participate in our practical workshops.

In our towing and stability tanks, labs and Fibre Reinforced Plastic (FRP) workshops, you'll also get to cover the manufacture of composites, material testing, stability and marine engine investigations.

The professionally recognised BEng (Hons) Yacht and Powercraft Design degree is one of the world's leading courses. Its international reputation means that you'll be ideally situated for graduate success.

"These courses attract students because they are linked so closely with industry...I enjoy putting a lot of hours in."

Jeffrey Ive - BEng (Hons) Yacht and Powercraft Design

Professional accreditation

Fully accredited by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects.

Course content

Level 4      

• Naval Architecture Principles
• Yacht Design & Production Principles
• Marine Craft Materials & Production
• Marine Craft Systems Principles
• Small Craft Mechanics
• Mathematics

Level 5   

• Marine Craft Design & Development
• Applied Yacht Design & Production
• Resistance & Propulsion
• Applied Marine Craft Systems
• Marine Craft Hydrodynamics
• Structural Analysis

Level 6   

• Marine Craft Structures (Practice)
• Advanced Yacht Design & Production
• Project
• Aero-hydrodynamics
• Marine Craft Structures (Theory)

Assessment

Most units have a course work and an exam element, some CAD based units such as yacht design and production are all course work assessed.

Entry level

180 points from two or more numerically based A Levels or equivalent.

Entry may be offered to applicants holding an HND in an appropriate subject.

Special features

The course has an international reputation for yacht and small craft design founded on nearly forty years of experience. Taught by dedicated teaching staff with strong links to industry, active in consultancy and design.

Career opportunities

Yacht and power boat designers, small craft naval architects, racing yacht designers, independent design consultant, classification societies and maritime & coastguard agency surveyors, accident investigation.

Options available

• Foundation Year
• Socrates / Erasmus Exchange

Special facilities

With the advantage of Southampton's superb geographic location, you will have access to a wide range of study environments. The nearby Warsash Maritime Academy is used for practical field and boat work.

A recent addition is the 'Solent Surveyor', a new 10-metre catamaran Evolution 995, equipped to carry out engine and trials work.

On campus there are more practical testing facilities including a purpose-designed and equipped CAD design office, hosting virtually all of the currently available software used in the industry, plus maritime systems laboratories. These accommodate state-of-the-art computer systems for the management of coastal resources and treatment of coastal data.

Southampton Solent University also benefits from a 60-metre industry standard towing tank used for laboratory sessions and final year project work, as well as a 4-metre stability tank We have built new fabrication shops for advanced composite construction, which will provide you with access to hi-tech materials and processes commonly used in the marine industry.

Field trips

We offer regular visits to boatyards, lifeboat builders and marine equipment suppliers.

Industrial placements

Although we don't offer an Industrial Placement scheme for this course, there are opportunities to gain experience over the summer vacations.

Occasionally companies approach the University for students for longer work experience programmes extending over one year.

 

*Note

This course is also available with a Technology Foundation| (Level 3). There are different UCAS codes for the main degree and the degree with a Foundation. Please make sure the correct UCAS code, as listed below, is entered on your UCAS application form.

BEng(Hons) Yacht and Powercraft Design with Technology Foundation
UCAS code: H528 BEng/YPDF

 

This course is also available with a Language Foundation (English) (Level 3). |Please make sure the correct UCAS code, as listed below, is entered on your UCAS application form.

BEng(Hons) Yacht and Powercraft Design with Language Foundation
UCAS code: H5Q3 BEng/YPDWL

 

Programme Specification

The current academic year (2009-2010) programme specification for this course can be found via the Faculty of Technology course list| held in our Programme Specification centre.

International Students please contact the International Recruitment Office:

Tel: +44 (0) 23 8031 9129

Fax: +44 (0) 23 8031 9412

E-mail: international@solent.ac.uk|

 

 

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