Talk:Marine engineering

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Clean Up
This is a branch of engineering with dedicated degree programs at internationally famous univesities in Australia, America and elsewhere. There is a lot more useful information that should be added by those familiar with the subject. Obvious examples would be:


 * History of the subject
 * Specialties
 * Relationship to Oceanography
 * Relationship to Marine Engineering
 * Degree programs - subjects studied
 * Famous examples of structures
 * Famous Ocean engineers

Cje 10:41, 27 March 2006 (UTC)


 * You won't find any Ocean Engineers outside America; it's not a globally-recognised discipline, because it's so casually defined.
 * Remote sensing systems and underwater robots are designed by (Marine)Electronics Engineers, Communications Engineers and Systems Engineers (same thing really) and maybe Mechanical Engineers and Computer Engineers sometimes; Corrosion and electro-mechanical systems are handled by Marine Engineers; Naval Architects design ships and model wave motions; Oceanographers analyse the data and how the sea works; Marine Biologists study the wildlife; and Subsea Engineers or Offshore Engineers design and install the structures... so what do "Ocean Engineers" do? Make the sea?! (or make the tea!).
 * Read this garbage: http://www.marinecareers.net/field_oceanengineering.php
 * That's basically describing Electronics Engineering, and then just before the end it suddenly introduces Environmental Engineering (Pollution management systems)
 * What they are really trying to imply is that "Ocean Engineering" is "Oceanography Support" Engineering, and trying to ringfence disparate disciplines in a misconceived catch-all term.
 * Basically, this article is twaddle - redirect to a new article called Offshore Engineering based on this:

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Offshore_Engineering

Drop Ocean Science
This article should be Ocean Engineering alone. The science is more appropriately described in oceanography and its related fields and subfields.

--Mego2005 18:57, 31 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Done. Lots of room for expansion. Vsmith 03:50, 12 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Strongly disagree, marine engineering is not solely a mechanical discipline - I speak from experience of working both in the engine room and in oceanographic engineering. Where is Archimedes?!

OR & spam
Deleted list of Leading institutions as WP:OR, if they are leading then they should have a Wikipedia article or some source for their leadingness needs to be provided. Also removed the growing External links as spam, Wikipedia is not here to advertise for college recruiters. Vsmith 23:11, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Ocean engineering education
Changed the number of ABET institutions from NINE (9) to TEN (10). Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG) has a seperate curriculum from that of Texas A&M University (TAMU) and is responsible for attaining ABET certification on its own and independent of TAMU. (Linkwray60 (talk) 21:57, 25 May 2008 (UTC))

De-disambiguated per WP:DABCONCEPT
This article has been de-disambiguated per WP:DABCONCEPT, as the topics covered were not unrelated topics coincidentally sharing the same name, but were broadly conceptually related topics generally not sharing the same name. bd2412 T 05:14, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I strongly disagree... an operating engineer and a design engineer occupy two very different rôles. This is akin to saying "Georgia, a nation in Europe, is located between the Carolinas and Florida and known mostly for Coca-Cola." K7L (talk) 03:22, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
 * At a higher level of abstraction, we are talking about the range of activities that allow machinery to operate in a marine environment. Part of the reason that this was so clearly a dabconcept case was that incoming links could not be fixed because they tend to refer to the field as a whole (not the case with Georgia). bd2412  T 03:48, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

New Additions
I have added some explanations under the history section for Ocean Liners(pertaining to the history of how they came to be popular around the world), Cruise Ships(explaining how they were the result of the unused ocean liners after they were no longer needed), and Cargo Ships(providing details about how they came to be and are still used for their ability to move very large loads very long distances and do it relatively easily). I have also added some additional info for the Naval Architecture section as it was only one sentence and it also provided some clarification to the whole idea of the specialty. Dca99 (talk) 05:49, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Submarine K-219 is cited instead of K-129 under Salvage and Recovery
'Numerous famous examples of shipwrecks exist, but recoveries include Squalus (subsequently rechristened USS Sailfish (SS-192)) and Project Azorian, the clandestine recovery of a portion of Soviet submarine K-219 by the U.S. Navy and CIA in 1974 aboard Glomar Explorer. [33] [34]' Checking the linked page for K-219 shows that it sank in 1986 (making this sentence a little chronologically implausible), and Glomar Explorer's page says that it was used to salvage the submarine K-129 in 1974 after said vessel sank in 1968. Source [33] also specifically links to an article on K-219, so presumably that needs changing too. I know nothing at all about any of these topics or editing Wikipedia so I can't do anything about it myself, I just tripped over this small error and want to pass word on to someone more useful than me. 2607:F2C0:EAB8:5A9:8C4:B28E:B4B:553F (talk) 04:20, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Different fuel options
Maybe there could be section that mentions the other fuel options for ships, such as BHP aiming to receive a bulk carrier powered by ammonia by 2026 or Myklebust Verft building hydrogen powered ferries? RewanJude (talk) 15:58, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

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