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INDUSTRY BASED SHIP DESIGN PROJECT 27
FOR NAVAL ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS

The contents of ship design project are prepared according to team work of students by taking into account
the support of industry. Each member gets marks from technical project and team work. In any semester,
every team submits 4 technical reports about the work.

At the end, each project is presented by team members in front of lecturers, designers and the members
from the industry. They are asked questions about their technical work by the audience in the room. The
team should prove that their project is properly done and producible.

3. Case Study

SDP lecture system was changed in 2005. There was a resistance from the students and the lecturers at the
beginning. Students resisted because they did not want to work together with other students who they did
not know before. Lecturers resisted because it seemed time and energy consuming in addition to more
communication activity with other lecturers and therefore, they insisted that it might not work properly. On
the contrary, the department decided to go forward and set the program. Most of the department members
were involved in the program. A commission prepared the rules to make up a team and technical details,
which were included in the projects.

Consistent with work principles, teams are arranged by taking into account average marks and the students'
settlements in town. Average marks and the number of team members are given in Table 1 to show the
heterogeneity of the teams. The number of teams and designers were decided and then a meeting with
designers was arranged about the ship types and how they could support their teams. The ship types between
2005 and 2007 are given in Table 2. Some of the ship types have not been worked on before, the revision
such as motor yacht, sailing yacht, landing craft etc.

Some students with low mark have showed very good performance during their work and became team
leaders. Contrarily, some good students with high marks have not managed to become a team member. In
three years, only a few teams have changed the members because they could not work together.

SDP lectures also are supported by some seminars in the area experts such as in the topic of rules and
regulations from the maritime administration.

Table 1. Average marks and numbers of each team

2006-2007 Ship Design Projects

Team No Number of team Average marks of students out
members of 4 full mark
1 5
2 1.94, 2.21, 2.24, 2.45, 2.77
3
4 5 1.76, 1.83, 2.14, 2.49, 2.67
5
6 5 1.85, 2.05, 2.14, 2.31, 2.97
7
8 5 1.93, 2.13, 2.22, 2.52, 2.87
9
5 1.41, 2.30, 2.32, 2.55, 2.72

5 1.55, 1.88, 2.22, 2.25, 2.94

4 1.97, 2.15, 2.16, 2.90

5 2.04, 2.16, 2.32, 2.53, 3.16

4 1.96, 1.99, 2.08, 2.44

The objectives of most final year capstone design courses for The North America are given in Table 3
(Lamb and Cooper, 2006). Also the comparison of the old and new systems at ITU according to the
objectives of The North America is represented in Table 3.

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