The Department of Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture set up in 1952 to offer a degree course in Naval Architecture was the first of its kind in India. It started offering a postgraduate diploma in Naval Construction from 1973-74 and a postgraduate diploma in Ship Design and Construction from 1974-75, following a request from the Ministry of Defence, Government of India. The postgraduate diploma was subsequently upgraded to the degree of Master of Technology in Naval Architecture from 1980-81 based on the recommendation of Nayudamma Committee. With the changing scene worldwide, the BTech (Hons) is now awarded in ‘Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture’ from 1991-92 and the MTech in Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture from 2001-02. Besides offering the BTech and MTech programmes, the Department also offers a Five-year dual degree MTech programme in Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture. Research oriented programmes leading to MS and PhD in the different research areas of the Department are pursued. The department also offers a postgraduate diploma in Maritime Operations and Management in video-cum-contact mode. Most of the basic facilities are available within the Department. The Ship Hydrodynamics Laboratory consisting of a towing tank 150 m long, 4 m wide and 2.5 m deep equipped with a towing carriage of maximum speed 5 m/sec has a resistance dynamometer for testing ship and other mobile models, propeller dynamometers, an underwater photography system and facilities for making models with modern materials and equipment. A 2D wave-maker is in the process of being installed and will be operational soon. Besides this, there is also a circulating water channel for simulation and measurement of sedimentation problems as well as studies of flow around ships and other floating or submerged bodies. The Structural Laboratory is equipped with 50kN Universal Testing Machine complete with all accessories to carry out experiments with tensile, compressive and bending loads. A multichannel multipoint digital strain data logger compatible with IBM PC is also available. The facilities include a Vibration Laboratory, and a well-equipped Welding Laboratory with automatic welding machines. The Department also has UG & PG Computer Laboratories with a large number of Pentium machines besides Workstations and peripherals connected through LAN, to the Central Computing Facility of the Institute. The UG Laboratory is equipped with modern workstations, and a wide variety of software including graphics, computer aided draughting and a wide spectrum of ship design software developed in-house. The peripherals include Laser printers and A0plotters. The Department offers following specialization: OE     Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture Course Content The basic concepts necessary for an appreciation of the field of Ocean Engineering are provided through various core courses such as Analysis of Ocean Structures, Ocean Hydromechanics, Marine Construction and Repair Techniques, Dynamics of Ocean Vehicles, Advanced courses in specific area of Ocean Engineering including CAD-CAM in design and production, Computational Methods in Structural Mechanics and Hydromechanics are available in the form of electives. The elective courses offered by the Department are:  Ocean Engineering Materials, Dynamical Oceanography, Safety and Marine Pollution, Coastal Engineering, Hydroelasticity, Mechanics of Floating Systems, Ocean Engineering Vehicles and Systems, Powering of Ocean Vehicles, Ship Design, Advanced Ocean Structural Analysis, Computational Methods in Marine Hydrodynamics, CAD-CAM in Marine Design and Production. The courses are so designed that the students from other engineering disciplines can easily adopt themselves to the course curriculum and later specialize themselves in areas like Structural Mechanics, Hydrodynamics, Naval Architecture including software developments and computer applications. Experimental work in the Department Laboratories also forms a part of the MTech Programme. MTech applicants are required to submit a dissertation, which may be in one of the areas of research in the Department.
Areas of Research IIn the last half a century, the Department has made significant contributions to the development of the ship-building, shipping, offshore and related industries in the country by providing technical manpower of high quality and by carrying out research and development of international standard. Apart from basic research, the Department is also actively involved in various sponsored research and consultancy projects. The research areas can be classified into the three broad fields as below: Design and Production: Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacture, Structural Reliability, Ship Design Optimization, Knowledge Based Systems, Different Welding Methods for Production, Design and Analysis of Welded Joints, Methods for Calculation/Estimations of Welding Deformation and Residual Stresses. Fluid Mechanics: Resistance and Propulsion, Computational Fluid Mechanics, Water Wave Mechanics, Coastal Hydrodynamics, Fluid Structure Interaction, Motion of Floating Bodies, Wave loads on Costal/Offshore Structures. Structural Engineering: Finite Element Method of structural analysis applied to ship and ocean structures such as stiffened plates, stiffened shells, submerged panels, offshore structures, articulated towers, etc., analysis of the fibre reinforced structures as applied to ocean, aerospace and general engineering systems.
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