Marine Materials and Offshore Engineering
Marine Engineering Management Graduate Certificate
Note: This program is being revised. No applications are currently being accepted. Please contact the main office with any inquiries at ome@fau.edu.
Marine Engineering Management is a practice-oriented, part-time graduate certificate program designed to assist technical professionals and qualified students in the development of their careers and to provide the technical expertise needed in rapidly changing business, government and industrial environments.
The program is intended primarily for individuals who do not find a traditional master's degree program an appropriate option and who wish instead to pursue a program that offers an integrated set of courses taught by different engineering department faculty at FAU. All of the engineering and computer science courses will be offered on a rotating schedule designed to accommodate working professionals.
Program Highlights
- Certificate requirements are satisfied by five courses totaling at least 15-credits focused on the application of engineering principles to naval architecture, marine transportation, port security and system engineering.
- The program is primarily designed for engineers and professionals working in mechanical, electrical, ocean, marine and transportation areas.
- Program courses will be offered either at the FAU Boca Raton campus or the Dania Beach, SeaTech site.
- Courses will be scheduled to facilitate completion of the certificate requirements in one year.
- Students enrolled in the program are classified as non-degree-seeking students. Credits earned by non-degree seeking students in the program may later be applied to a Master of Science degree program at FAU upon request to a particular program in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. One-third of the degree requirements in which grades of "B" or higher are earned in a non-degree status can be counted towards a graduate degree.
Minimum Admission Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in an engineering or a related field such as science.
- Demonstrated competence on a university transcript (GRE scores are not required).
Program Information
Courses
Note: This program is being revised. No applications are currently being accepted. Please contact the main office with any inquiries at ome@fau.edu.
Core Courses
Three courses must be taken from the following list.
| Course No. | Course Name |
|---|---|
| EOC 6808 | Marine Power Plant Design and Optimization This course covers fundamental knowledge of the processes involved in marine power and propulsion plants as well as engineering optimization and reliability analysis applied to the synthesis of integrated, efficient, and reliable systems for various types of naval, passenger, and cargo vessels. |
| EOC 6515 | Hydrodynamic Aspects of Ship Design This course covers the hydrodynamics of naval architecture with topics including resistance, propulsion, sea-keeping, and maneuvering, with emphasis on geometric effects on vehicle performance. |
| TE 6965 | Transportation Systems Analysis This course is design to provide students with modeling software tools to solve port traffic and sequencing for optimization for transportation flow. The following course objectives will be addressed: (a) ability to conceptualize and solve transportation system problems, (b) ability to apply operation research techniques for modeling system performance and design of transportation services, and (c) ability to investigate various techniques in transportation systems via classroom discussion, problem sets and semester-long projects. |
| MAN 6527 | Project Management Technology transfer concepts and applications; Deming's philosophy of management; planning, directing and controlling technical projects using PERT/CPM; designing technical organizations; motivation and leadership theory applied to technical personnel; and systems life cycle determination techniques. |
| MAN 6299 | Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation This course examines the management of the innovative process and how this process often results in new ideas that have business applications. In addition the course will clarify how new ideas can be developed into new products and services that can result in the creation of new business ventures. Students will study elements of the innovative process in the field and interviewing successful entrepreneurs. |
Elective Courses
Two additional graduate courses must be taken in a student related field of study with the satisfaction of the prerequisite course or permission of the instructor if applicable.
| Course No. | Course Name |
|---|---|
| EEL 4746 | Introduction to Microcontrollers Introduction to microcontrollers, overview of assembly language, microcontroller hardware, I/O hardware alternatives Training kits will be used in the lab to run assembly programs. |
| An extra 5000 or 6000 level graduate course from the College |