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Maine Maritime Academy Training

Marine Systems Engineering (B.S.)

Engineering degree with calculus-based design and analysis, offered as a five-year USCG license track or a non-license track focused on naval architecture.

Description

Marine Systems Engineering at Maine Maritime Academy combines marine engineering practice with calculus-based design and analysis, in two tracks.

Key features

  • License track: technical courses of the engineering operations and technology programs plus a 10-course design and analysis sequence, 180 days of industrial practice at sea and a three-to-four month shoreside co-op
  • License track takes five years, with the USCG Third Assistant Engineer's License exam in the fourth year and the Fundamentals of Engineering examination in the fifth
  • Non-license track: focuses on naval architecture for shoreside careers

Applications

Careers in seagoing engineering, ship design, naval architecture and marine systems engineering ashore.

Specifications

License track durationfive years
Sea time180 days

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