Programme content
Technological developments in the offshore sector represent a major challenge for society. From an economic perspective, the importance of the shipping industry is as significant as that of the offshore wind sector. From an environmental perspective, reducing fuel consumption and pollutant emissions, as well as managing the life cycle of transport and wind power generation systems, are now key challenges. Finally, from a socio-political perspective, new transport technologies contribute to improving the mobility of citizens and must guarantee increasingly strict safety conditions.
This specialization aims to train engineers who are able to adapt to these developments and contribute to future innovations. The courses in this specialization are exclusively reserved for students who are enrolled in the entire Erasmus Mundus EMSHIP+ program over the two years of the master's degree. The first 60 credits are offered by the project's coordinating university, the University of Ghent, as well as by the Dunarea de Jos University of Gala?i in Romania. In the second year of the master's program, students can choose to continue their studies at one of these five universities: University of Liège, University of Rostock (Germany), École Centrale de Nantes (France), Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa (Portugal), and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain).
During their studies, students also gain in-depth experience of the industrial world; the program includes a long internship (three to four months) and a master's thesis carried out in a company (shipyard, shipowner, designer, offshore wind energy company, research institute, etc.), which in 20% of cases leads directly to employment. Upon completion of the master's degree, graduates have a wide range of career opportunities, including jobs in production (shipbuilding or wind power), R&D in companies: component suppliers (propulsion, dredging, specialized vessels for transporting wind turbines, etc.), research institutes (ship model tanks), classification/inspection companies, or even academia for a PhD. Based on current experience, after six months, 98% of graduates have a job in Belgium, Europe, or their country of origin.