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YACHT DESIGN
Master degree course

Info 2023/2024

Degree type
Master degree course
Duration and credits
2
Years
120
CFU
LM-34
NAVAL ENGINEERING
Admission
 
Free access
Location
LA SPEZIA
English
Teaching mode
Traditional
Taxes and fees
From 0 to 3000 euros per year. Find out if you are entitled to scholarships and exemptions
International partnerships
Student exchange
Head of programme
DARIO BOOTE
Contacts
To learn more about the Course visit the dedicated section
Documents
Degree programme table a.y. 2023/2024
Degree programme plan 2023/2024
Degree regulations 2023/2024

Vai alla pagina dedicata alla Verifica della preparazione personale.

Video presentation

Programme overview

Summary

The Yacht Design degree program, offered in English, aims to prepare students to become professionals in the field capable of confronting industrial problems at a high degree of complexity and innovation.  Graduates need to be able to understand, analyze and verify pleasure crafts, design large yachts based on innovative technologies, and oversee and direct construction, testing, maintenance and repair of yachts and mega yachts.

Learning by doing

Learning by doing

The classroom lectures in which the theoretical foundation of each course is presented to students are supported by:

-didactic laboratories on design and nautical experimentation;

-internships at shipyards, professional consultancy studios, and  maritime classification registers and surveying boards;

-conferences and workshops in the nautical field;

-university regattas;

-research theses on fundamental topics or on themes proposed by companies in the nautical field.

Career perspectives

Career perspectives

Employment at construction shipyards, repair and refitting yards for yachts and pleasure craft, classification registers and surveying boards, design and professional consultancy studios and research institutes which operate in the yachting and mega yacht sectors.

What you will learn

  • Yacht stability

    Standards concerning the stability and buoyancy, the leak problem, the rolling movement and stabilisation means, speed effects on the stability.

  • Yacht dynamics

    The course deals with the motion law definition as well as the hydrodynamics characteristics regulating ship and yacht behaviour from the manoeuvrability, seakeeping and dynamic stability sides.

  • Ship structures

    The course regards the Finite Element Method for solving linear static mechanical problems

  • Numerical Marine Hydrodynamics

    The course is intended to provide students with the basis of the most advanced numerical techniques adopted for the solution of the hydrodynamic problems related to naval architecture. The theoretical background of each proposed methodology, with its field of application and its limits, is presented together with hands-on examples.

  • Motor Yacht Design

    This units aims to complete the student skills in the naval architecture field through the study of advanced topics specifically concerning the preliminary phase of the design.

  • Yacht Rigging

    The course will provide basic knowledge about scantling criteria of sailing systems. Typical configurations are analyzed using applicable rules and by means of some advanced numerical methods. Some concepts of sail design, from a structural perspective, are presented along with a few hints about fluid structure interaction problems.

  • Yacht Design Studio Workshop

    Focused on concepts concerning the onboard space and arrangement, with particular concern to the organisation on several bridges.

  • Sailing Yacht Aero Hydro Dynamics

    This unit supplies students with the basic fundamentals of the sail aerodynamics and interaction with the hull, as well as technological and application concepts concerning the design methods and materials

Did you know that...

  • Yacht Design is a unique degree program in Italy and, as it is configured, it is also unique in Europe!
  • More than 90% of our graduates find employment at major shipyards and professional consultancy studios in the field.
  • At Polo ?G. Marconi' students, teachers and staff are united by their passion for yachting. During the academic year it is possible to participate in workshops, conferences, and the construction and refitting of boats designed by our students.
  • In the past, our students have formed a crew and participated in the ?Mille e una Vela' university regatta, winning in 2012!

Contents

Contents

Design of pleasure craft (without limits) both from a scientific and technological point of view and from an aesthetic point of view.

The nautical designer must possess the professional competence and skills in the disciplinary fields typical of naval engineering as well as an equally solid preparation in the field of architectural composition and design applied to the nautical field.

What does it mean to be a Yacht Designer?

It means being able to deal in an effective manner with technical problems at a high level of complexity and innovation, and work in an optimal manner using the most modern design and production techniques.  In short, the principal characteristics of a professional of the Master’s program in Yacht Design will be a student who has the ability to understand, analyze and verify pleasure craft, even at a large dimension and complexity, design yachts of large dimension using innovative technologies, and oversee and direct the construction, testing, maintenance, operation and repair of leisure craft.

Head of programme

<div>Dario Boote</div>
Coordinator Prof. Dario Boote


Head of Programme

Where to find us

Campus Universitario La Spezia
Viale Nicolò Fieschi 16/18
19123 La Spezia
+39 0187 751265
https://campus-laspezia.unige.it/

Success stories

Learn more

Didactic support contact
Paola Bergantin
didattica@diten.unige.it

Course Chair
Dario Boote
+39 010 353 2419
dario.boote@unige.it 
 
Course Didactic Office 
Luca Panìco
+39 0187 751265
luca.panico@unige.it