Conference Session

Ocean & Marine Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Brahan, US Coast Guard Academy; Thomas W. Denucci, United States Coast Guard Academy; Jaye Falls, United States Naval Academy; Paul H. Miller, P.E., United States Coast Guard Academy; Peter A. Sousa, United States Coast Guard Academy

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine Division (OMED)

approaches to providing full-scale hands-on exposure throughPBL electives in small craft construction. Third and fourth-year students at USNA and first-yearstudents at USCGA, can take courses in Marine Fabrication Methods and ExperientialEngineering: Small Craft Design and Construction, respectively. In these courses the studentsbuild 10-15 ft long plywood boats, providing them with an enjoyable, motivational, practical,and educational experience in their major.The two schools have similar missions to develop officers for commissioning into the seaservices of the United States. Both schools confer on their graduates B.S. degrees in a variety ofmajors, including Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NA&ME). Each school hasapproximately 25