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Getting to know Marine Engineering

Marine Engineering pertains to designing, constructing, maintaining and operating systems for structures and vessels to be used at sea. This includes but is not limited to ships (both Main Fleet and Offshore supply vessels), oil platforms and submarines. In other words, marine engineers are skilled individuals involved in the design, construction and maintenance of vehicles and structures used on or around water. Marine engineering technology and techniques are used to create ships, oil platforms and harbours. Thus, marine engineering is the branch of engineering which deals with the design, development, production and maintenance of the equipment used at sea and on board sea vessels like boats, ships etc. It includes but is not limited to power and propulsion plants, machinery, piping, automation and control systems for marine vehicles of any kind, such as surface ships and submarines. The purely mechanical ship operation aspect of marine engineering has some relationship with na...