UBC Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

03/28/2025

Industry members are invited to join us April 24 for our NAME Student Design Celebration! Enjoy networking and dinner while our MEng students present their ship designs, and connect with the latest talent poised to enter the maritime industry!

🔵 April 24, 5:30-10 pm
🔵 University Golf Club
🔵 Details + Tickets: https://name.engineering.ubc.ca/name-student-design-celebration

Get your tickets by April 9th!

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01/05/2024

Vipin Balachandran is charting a course to launch a company where he can apply his domain expertise in marine engineering.

01/05/2024

Couldn't make our discussion on the shipping sector’s sustainability drive featuring Peter Jackson? Read the MEL Program spotlight for industry insights from Seaspan's Senior VP of Assets and Technology: https://apscpp.ubc.ca/news-events/fireside-chat-sustainability-in-the-shipping-industry

Seaspan has developed frameworks to support sustainability practices in Shipping for fuels, personnel, and ship dismantling.

10/27/2023

Students and alumni are invited to join UBC Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering on Nov 1 at 2:30 PM for a discussion on sustainability and technology in shipping sector! The talk features special guest speaker Peter Jackson, Seaspan’s Vice President of Assets and Technology, and is moderated by MEL & MHLP Academic Director Dr. Justin Bull.

Spots are limited - RSVP to attend: https://mech.ubc.ca/events/event/name-guest-speaker-seaspan-vp-peter-jackson/

04/17/2023

Interested in advancing your career in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering?

Learn more about the unique combination of technical and business education provided by the Master of Engineering Leadership program at the UBC MEL Virtual Open Day on May 6!

Join us at the annual UBC MEL Virtual Open Day to learn about the advantages of these transformative degrees and explore how they can help accelerate your career goals.

Please register now to connect with current students, faculty, staff, and accomplished alums, and attend live sessions with our expert team of specialists in student recruitment, student services, and career services.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn about course offerings and teaching methods, connect with other like-minded working professionals, and gain insights from alums and current students!

04/14/2023

Our Student Design Celebration is coming up April 27! See our MEng students' ship design and connect with the latest talent in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering! Held at the University Golf Club, the evening also includes dinner and networking with Vancouver's maritime industry.

We've extended the ticket deadline to April 18 - get yours today: https://name.engineering.ubc.ca/2023-name-student-design-celebration

Join us on April 27 for our Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering student design showcase Enjoy an evening of networking and dinner with industry colleagues, our alumni, and faculty members at the University Golf Club, while our NAME Master of Engineering students present their final ship design...

12/21/2022

NAME MEng graduate Yves Etienne Landry is an APSC Rising Star! Read about his journey in our program below:

"Ships are complex systems of systems that require naval architects to use creativity, innovation, and leadership to deliver vessels built to operate in the future maritime environment."

12/15/2022

Congratulations to our 2022 NAME MEng cohort and all the graduates who celebrated their accomplishments at UBC's November ceremony.

Learn about our outstanding graduates including the recipients of the 2022 NAME Engineering Design Award!

On November 24, the Department of Mechanical Engineering celebrated our students graduating in UBC’s November convocation with a reception and awards ceremony. Before graduands crossed the stage and to receive their degrees at the Chan Centre, they joined us one last time in CEME to celebrate with...

12/15/2022

NAME faculty members Dr. Rajeev Jaiman and Dr. Jasmin Jelovica are working on solutions such as adding wavy and serrated edges to propellers to break up flow patterns, and an AI-based framework to rapidly analyze the fluid interactions and dynamics behind the noise.

Chronic ship noise can lead to stress, hearing loss and feeding problems for marine mammals like whales, dolphins and porpoises. UBC researchers are diving in to help address the issue.

08/25/2022

Congratulations to our MEng students Visal Katamaneni and Yves-Etienne Landry on being awarded the 2022 Jagdeep Singh Bakshi Scholarship in recognition of leadership and academic excellence!

Read more: https://name.engineering.ubc.ca/2022/08/25/2022-jagdeep-singh-bakshi-scholarship-winners/

08/15/2022

The winning ship designs selected by industry members at our successful spring Student Design Celebration have been announced!

See the excellent computer aided ship design work by our 2022 MEng students: https://name.engineering.ubc.ca/2022/08/04/industry-selects-winning-designs-at-2022-student-design-celebration/

06/20/2022

Spearheaded by faculty from UBC's Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering program and Marine Systems Initiative, the International Marine Design Conference is coming to Vancouver campus from June 26-30th.

The 2022 conference will explore how digital transformation is impacting ship design and will feature speakers, panels, and paper presentations over three days, as well as networking opportunities.

UBC will be welcoming maritime industry members and researchers from all over the world this June 26- 30, when it hosts the 14th annual International Marine Design Conference (IMDC). Exploring the invisible parts of the ship, the 2022 IMDC will focus on how digital transformation is impacting ship d...