Course Specifications

Sues Canal University Faculty of Engineering , Port-Said

Program on which the course is given: Regular

Department offering the program : Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
Academic year / Level : Third year , First term

Date of specification approval:

A- Basic Information

Title: Ship Design (2) Code: NME 317

Credit Hours: Lecture: 4 hrs/week
Practical:2 hrs/week

B- Professional Information

1 – Overall aims of course

This course aims to acquire the student to learn General Arrangement of different type of
Commercial Ships, and basic design of a ship in preliminary design stages taken into
consideration interior ship divisions, optimum principal dimensions, ship's safety, Ship
motions, Etc. Methods of ship design according to ship's fuctions such as Fishing vessel,
Tugs.Container, Weight estimation for ships , and ship vibrations. Investigate ship tender
design presses.

2 – Intended learning outcomes of course (ILOs)

a- Knowledge and understanding:
The course enable the student to :
a1- Recognizing the fundamental of ship design.
a2- Recognizing the ship safety
a3- Recognizing method of design based on ship's functions
a4- Recognizing methods to estimate weight of ship's elements.

b- Intellectual skills
The student will able to :
b1- Establish the basic requirements of ship design
b2- Differentiate between the methods of ship design.
B3- Choose the suitable way of utilizing of steel weight during ship design stages
B4- how to design a vessel for the require function and safety

c- Professional and practical skills

The course enable the student to :
C1- Deal with the ship design in preliminary design stages
C2- Design of vessel based on its function
C3- How to estimate ship weight in design stages and in deferent load conditions

d- General and transferable skills

At the end of this course the student could be ready to:
d1- Understand the methods of ship design.
d2- Apply the gained knowledge to considered the safety for design/existing vessels and
How to estimate the require steel weight taken into account minimum cost.
3- Contents

Topic No. of Hours Lecture Tutorial/Practical

1-General arrangement 20 14 6
and interior division for
commercial ships
Determination optimum 8 4 4
principal dimensions for
design ship
Methods of ship design 24 4 2
according its function
1- Cargo Ships 4 2
2- Fishing design 4 2
3- Container ship 4 2
Tonnage Measurement 6 4 2
for Ships
Ship Tendering Design 10 8 2
Process
Methods of Weight 12 8 4
estimations
Safety of Design/existing 10 6 4
ships
90 60 30
4– Teaching and learning methods
The course is given to the student through:
4.1- Lectures
4.2- Sections exercises

5- Student assessment methods

5.1 Current discussion & class activities: to assess the student learning and
To have the engineering sense
5.2 Tutorial and application sessions…….: to assess the ability of student to handle ship design
in preliminary design stages and to know the
technical Problems arises in the existing ships
according to its functions
5.3 Final exam………………………………………..: to assess the capability of student to decide the
Selected ship design methods based on its
Function in minimum time.

Assessment schedule
Assessment 1 – Current discussion & class activities during lectures 100% Time
Assessment 2 - Tutorial and application sessions 100% Time
Assessment 3 - Final exam ………………..……………………… At the end of the semester

Weighting of assessments
Assessment 1 – Current discussion & class activities during lectures 10%
Assessment 2 - Tutorial and application sessions 30%
Assessment 3 - Final exam ……………………………………………………………….. 60%
Total 100%
6- List of references
6.1- Course notes:
Ass. Prof. Dr. Ahmed Ali Mahmoud Amin "Lecture Notes on Ship Design"
Department of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering, Port-Said,2005

6.2- Recommended books

1) Sea Design and Construction of Steel Merchant Ship,
(ARNOTT) SNAME, 1955
2) R. Taggart, Ship Design and Construction "SNAME Publications, 1980
3) Thomas C. Gillmer " Modern Ship Design " 1975
4) Robert B. Zubaly " Applied Naval Architecture " Copyright 1996
5) Fifth International Congress on Marine Technology " Athen 90 , May 1990

6.3 - Facilities required for teaching and learning

1- Overhead projector and screen
2- White Board and Colored Markers.
3- Wooden plates 1.8x1, 0 m. with total No. 24 ,and fine surface finish in the
class room.

Course coordinator:
Ass. Prof. Dr Ahmed Ali Mahmoud Amin

Head of Department:
Prof. Dr. Galal M. Younis

Date: 5 / 1 / 2008

Department coordinator: Prof. Dr.- Ing. Laila Kamar