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KLAIPËDA UNIVERSITY |
SHIPPING AND PORT ENGINEERING
Qualification awarded
Level of qualification
University studies, Second cycle, graduate (Master's)
Specific admission requirements
Minimum access requirements: Bachelor degree or its equivalent
Minimum access qualification degree:
Specific arrangements for recognition of prior learning (formal, non-formal and informal)
Study subjects or parts thereof, corresponding to formal and subject requirements of selected study programme, may be included to individuals who graduated, studied or are presently studying at institutions of higher education in Lithuania or other countries, accredited in accordance with Lithuanian higher education curriculum, and who want to continue their studies at the University at the same or inferior cycle or studies of other studies programmes.
Profile of the programme
Because of the awareness of the general context of the maritime industry, blue economy and advanced manufacturing, as well as the latest international and national requirements, graduates are able to create new knowledge, plan, design, build and modernize ports, ships and other technical objects, design and optimize their energy plants and systems. The complexity of the program expands graduates' career opportunities in cargo handling, ship agency, cargo forwarding and shipping companies, port administration, ship design, construction and maintenance companies and other maritime industry companies.
, having specialized in
- Seaport Managemen, Specialization Seaport Management aims to train highly qualified seaport and marine transport engineering specialists and researchers for intellectual and creative activities related to shipping and port development, modern transportation technologies, complex assessment of technological, social, economic and environmental factors.
- Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding, The specialization Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding is designed to train highly qualified Masters in engineering, who have the ability to use the acquired knowledge on the potential of shipping, ports and the general maritime industry in the context of the green course, digitalization, blue economy development and advanced manufacturing, and the ability to apply the international and national requirements and innovative methods for the design, research and improvement of ships and other floating technical objects and structures from technical, environmental, ethical and economic points of view.
- Sustainable Marine Energy Engineering, The specialization Sustainable Marine Energy Engineering is designed to train highly qualified specialists for the maritime companies in transport energy, including renewable and alternative energy, who are able to evaluate and optimize processes from a technical, environmental, ethical, and economic point of view.
Key learning outcomes
1. Knowledge and understanding
2. Intellectual abilities
3. Practical abilities and skills
4. General transferable abilities and skills
Occupational profiles of graduates with examples
After obtaining a Master’s degree in engineering, individuals can work as engineers and researchers in various maritime industries (port administrations, stevedoring companies, ship agency, freight forwarding companies, ship design companies, shipbuilding and repair, etc.) as designers, technical consultants, managers of industrial enterprises and their divisions, project managers in commercial enterprises, researchers and lecturers in universities and research institutions.
Access to further studies
Access to the third cycle studies
Course structure diagram with credits
1 semester
| Course | ECTS | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ship Types & Design Conceptions (T300M018) | 6 |
| 2 | Maritime Development Issues and Research Directions (T003M018) | 6 |
| 3 | Maritime Safety (T000M020) | 6 |
| 4 | Research and Innovation (T000M079) | 6 |
| 5 | Maritime transport air pollution reduction technologies (T003M039) | 6 |
| Total: | 30 |
2 semester
| Course | ECTS | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Logistics and Administration (T003M004) | 6 |
| 2 | Green Shipping (T003M078) | 6 |
| 3 | Maritime Law and Insurance (T003M014) | 6 |
| 4 | Specialization Electives | 12 |
| Total: | 30 |
3 semester
| Course | ECTS | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Economy of Maritime Transport Companies (T003M103) | 6 |
| 2 | Offshore Wind Energy (T000M120) | 6 |
| 3 | Specialization Electives | 18 |
| Total: | 30 |
4 semester
| Course | ECTS | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Specialization Electives | 30 |
| Total: | 30 |
Specialization Subjects
| Course | ECTS | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding | |||
| 1 | Research Work 2 (T300M015) | 6 | |
| 2 | Preliminary Ship Design (T300M019) | 6 | |
| 3 | Ships Automated Design Systems (T003M001) | 6 | |
| 4 | Experimental Marine Hydrodynamics (T300M020) | 6 | |
| 5 | Ship structural mechanics and vibration (T003M045) | 6 | |
| 6 | Master’s Thesis (T300M003) | 30 | |
| Seaport Managemen | |||
| 1 | Cargo Handling Operations and Management (T003M041) | 6 | |
| 2 | Port Infrastructure and Superstructure Engineering (T003M038) | 6 | |
| 3 | Port Infrastructure Planning and Design (T003M040) | 6 | |
| 4 | Research Work 2 (T003M009) | 6 | |
| 5 | Transport theory, systems and management (T003M042) | 6 | |
| 6 | Master's Thesis (T003M006) | 30 | |
| Sustainable Marine Energy Engineering | |||
| 1 | Ship Propulsions Systems (Design, Selection and Optimization) and Course Paper (T455M002) | 6 | |
| 2 | Alternative Marine Fuels (T300M021) | 6 | |
| 3 | Offshore Technologies and Facilities (T000M021) | 6 | |
| 4 | Fleet Maintenance and Classification Societies (T000M022) | 6 | |
| 5 | Research Work (T003M043) | 6 | |
| 6 | Master's Thesis (T000M010) | 30 | |
Examination regulations, assessment and grading
The University applies cumulative grading in order to ensure objective evaluation, active students’ participation during the semester and their ability to apply theoretical knowledge in practice. Cumulative grading final evaluation consists of interim course assignments (test, individual work, paper, laboratory work defence, and etc.) and final exam grades. If the student fails the interim course assignments and does not make to transition grade−minimal grade of determined interim course assessments−he is not allowed to take the final exam. Each study programme is completed by defending final thesis (project) and (or) taking final exams.
A ten-point grading system is used at the University. Knowledge is assessed in the following marks
| Pass/fail system | KU grade* | Definition |
| Pass | 10 (excellent) | excellent performance, outstanding knowledge and skills |
| 9 (very good) | strong performance, good knowledge and skills | |
| 8 (good) | above the average performance, knowledge and skills | |
| 7 (highly satisfactory) | average performance, knowledge and skills with unessential shortcomings | |
| 6 (satisfactory) | below average performance, knowledge and skills with substantial shortcomings | |
| 5 (sufficient) | knowledge and skills meet minimum criteria | |
| Fail | 4, 3, 2, 1 (insufficient) | knowledge and skills do not meet minimum criteria / below minimum criteria |
Graduation requirements
Undergraduate and master student’s knowledge, skills and abilities, indicated in the study programme description, are examined and evaluated during the public defence of his Final thesis. Final thesis by its nature can be scientific research or scientific-applied. Final thesis is analytical work based on independent scientific or applied research. A Bachelor’s thesis comprises 12 credits; Master’s thesis comprises 30 credits in the study programme of 120 credits or 24 credits in the study programme of 90 credits. Final thesis and its defence is to demonstrate student’s creativity and the ability to critically evaluate theoretical and practical innovations, as well as others’ previously carried out researches and their results; to indicate student’s knowledge in social and commercial environment, legislation, and financial capacity; to show information sourcing and its qualified analysis skills, computational methods and specialized software and general-purpose information technologies using skills, as well as the ability to clearly and correctly orally or in written present their research results and (or) product designed to different audiences.
Final thesis is defended publicly in front of the Study Field Qualification Committee approved by the Rector. All members of the Qualification Committee evaluate the final thesis and its defence in separate grades in ten-point grading system. Weighted coefficient of defended grade is up to 0.2. The final grade is the arithmetic average of the grades given by the Qualification Committee members, rounded to the nearest whole number.
Mode of study
Full-time
Programme director or equivalent
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Birutë Plaèienë
Department of Marine Engineering