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UK Maritime Sector Powers Forward

If you are thinking about a future in mechanical engineering or aerospace why not consider maritime? Salaries remain strong, there is a worldwide shortage of engineers with maritime expertise and you as an individual can really make a significant difference.

Looking to the future the UK maritime sector is set to continue growing and to become an ever more important part of the UK’s economy. Already the maritime sector with an economic impact of £116bn is larger than the rail and aviation sectors combined. As an industry it supports over a million jobs that are 45% more productive than UK average, with pay 30% higher than UK benchmark and has expanded by 35% between 2010 and 2019.

These are the highlights from a detailed report by CEBR commissioned by MaritimeUK that discusses crucial maritime activities in the UK: shipping(£49Bn), engineering and science(£34Bn), business services(£13.7Bn), ports(£10Bn) and leisure(£8Bn) all play their part.

Research and development will play a key part in future UK success particularly in green technology developments around: decarbonising the shipping fleet of the world; developing the technology to harvest marine renewables such as floating offshore wind, tidal and wave energy; digital technology to ensure that ships are productive and can operate safely minimising risk to crew through increased use of autonomous systems; data analytics that allow ships to manage their voyage to account for the latest weather; achieving improved performance through use of foiling technology developed through high performance sailing events such as the America’s Cup, reducing ship resistance using air lubrication technology and returning to the age of sail through wind assist.

What industry needs are the highly qualified maritime engineers and ship scientists that can create and implement these innovative technologies. Typically 15 times as many students apply for aerospace as opposed to maritime courses and as a result only a small proportion of aerospace graduates actually go to work in their sector whereas in maritime there are many many opportunities worldwide as well as in the UK.

https://www.maritimeuk.org/careers/careers-seekers/

Our degree programmes are designed for the future and are taught by academics who are at the forefront of the maritime sector worldwide. As part of the School of Engineering we are in the top four of UK Engineering units of assessment for the the quality of its research (REF2021) and its societal and economic impact. The pathways for our final two years of our MEng programme include advanced computational engineering, ocean energy and offshore engineering, international naval architecture, marine engineering and autonomy, and yacht and high performance craft.

Our courses are the only ones that are joint accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Royal Institution of Naval Architects and the Institute of Marine Engineers, Scientists and Technologists. Year-on-year our national student survey results consistently rate us as the top UK maritime engineering and ship science degree programme.

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IMO World Maritime Day – Empowering Women in the Maritime Community

In honour of this year’s theme for World Maritime Day 2019 on 26th September, we are delighted to announce our networking event Empowering Women in the Maritime Community. We will be holding a Q&A/networking session for women in the maritime sector, who will be sharing what they do, how they got there, and any advice they might have. The session will be relatively informal, with lots of opportunities to ask questions and garner advice. More details to follow next month:

RAENg Visiting Professor Dr Penny Jeffcoate

The evnt is being coordinated by Dr Penny Jeffcoate our RAEng Visiting Professor – Marine Energy Technologies and Associated Infrastructure.
Penny joined us in 2018 as part of the Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor scheme, alongside her current role at tidal energy developer Sustainable Marine Energy as their R&D Manager. This industry-into-academia initiative aims to utilise the experience of Visiting Professors to enhance student learning as well as the employability and skills of UK engineering graduates, whilst strengthening external partnerships with industry. Under the objectives of this scheme, industry practitioners participate in course development, face-to-face teaching and mentoring of engineering undergraduates at the host university for three years.
Penny worked with Maritime Engineering and Ship Science programmes in 2018-2019 to help develop the Renewable Energy (SESS6067) and Group Design Projects courses for final year students, to give them practice in industry methods, particularly in reporting and critical reasoning. She will be working with the department this year to expand this interaction and give students insight into designing to client specification and management practices. This develop will continue until the end of her placement in 2021 and will hopefully be used for many years of student intake to come. The RAEng scheme also promotes the encouragement of traditionally minority entities in engineering, such as women and BAME. Penny will therefore be organising an event in support of this year’s IMO World Maritime Day: Empowering Women in the Maritime Community.
 

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Inspiring future maritime engineers

The “Future Marine Engineering” is an exciting residential course, developed to inspire Year 9 students aged 13 to 14 about marine engineering and career opportunities in the maritime sector. The course was organised by the Smallpeice Trust with technical content delivered our own inspiring team of post-doctoral researchers, Dr Jeanne Blanchard, Mr Przemyslaw Grudniewski and Dr Yikun Wang, in the Fluid Structure Interactions group at the University of Southampton.

Wave Energy Trials in the pool

This year, 95 students took part in the 3.5 days course with the aim to design and build a wave energy-harvesting device and a remote control boat to simulate a maintenance vessel for their renewable energy farms. The objective was to provide a prototype design to generate as much power from the wave energy-harvesting device as possible and to develop a maintenance vessel that could quickly and reliably service the energy farms in an emergency. The students were given a limited quantity of materials to design, build and test their products with their unlimited imaginations. In addition, they were to perform a “Dragon’s Den” style pitch and to defend their designs against rigorous technical ‘interrogations’ from some marine experts.
Design underway

To help the students develop their understanding of the marine industry they were given different talks by academics and an industrial expert from Shell Shipping and Maritime. This culminated in a celebration of their achievements at a formal dinner and an opportunity for the students to present their projects to academics and Seafarers UK, who kindly sponsored the course. On the last day, the students have tested their devices and model boats in the swimming pool with great success, before attending the awards ceremony with prizes given by Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute and the Royal Institution of Naval Architects with the chance for the students to join the Institution as junior members.

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Arkwright Scholars explore Maritime Engineering and Ship Science @Southampton

Ship Science has regularly hosted visits by Arkwright engineering scholars. These students apply for these prestigiuous shcolarships at 16 and are intended to help prepare them to be the next generation of leaders in the engineering profession. We were delighted to see tihs year that one of the visitors wrote some kind words about their visit.
http://www.arkwright.org.uk/main/latest-news/post/50-scholars-explore-maritime-engineering
 

2019 Scjholars inspecting our 138 m long wave and towing tank

Our courses at Southampton in Maritime Engineeirng and ship Science are designed to prepare students to play a leading role in the engineeirng profession associated with the maritime sector.  Our degree programmes, both MEng and MSc,  uniquely offer direct routes to professional membership and Chartered Engineeirng status with three such professional associations;
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Royal Institution of Naval Architects
Institute of Marine Engineers, Scientists and Technologists
 

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Maritime UK Solent Launched

At the inaugral Maritime UK [follow the link to see a great video]awards held in Southampton on the 19th Sept, attended by the Minister for Shipping Nusrat Ghani (@Nus_Ghani) the launch of the Solent regional hub was formally announced.

Key facts…

As a regional hub the compact area of the Solent demonstrates the importance of the maritime sector both to the region and to the UK as a whole.
Building 176 on Boldrewood Innovation campus – our home since 2014

Its great to see the Solent being promoted to a wider audience as the excellent place it always has been to live and work.   Our Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute has been at the heart of  these efforts since it was formally launched in 2012 with its first director Prof Ajit Shenoi from Ship Science.  The co-location with Maritime Engineering on our Boldrewood Innovation Campus of Lloyd’s Register Global Technology Centre in 2014 along with partnerships our many other industry partners has been key to its increasing activity

Now led by Prof Damon Teagle SMMI is actively promoting the Maritime 2050 strategy published by the Depatment of Transport earlier this year and which sets to  equip the UK to lead the world in maritime.  Exciting times are ahead with the technology challenges of decarbonising shipping at the forefront as well as embracing the digital revolution especially in the ever inrceasing use of maritime autonomous systems.
Fleur in Action

All of this makes it an excellent time to study Maritime Engineering as part of our Ship Science programmes. Our dedicated admisisons team always welcome enquiries or why not  visit us on the next University open day on Saturday 12th October and see our state-of-the-art faciltities including our 138 m long wave and towing tank