Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid

Naval and Oceanic Engineering (NOE) is the scientific and technological discipline that applies the principles and methods of Engineering, Science and Technology for the understanding, definition and resolution of structural, hydrodynamic and systemic problems in the units, ships and artifacts used in maritime transport, and the exploitation of the resources of seas and oceans and units for defense and security. This discipline is an academic and professional reality in the world, having a large number of foreign universities that offer doctoral programs in NOE, which have signed exchange programs at different levels. The Doctoral Program in Naval and Oceanic Engineering is integrated into the Technical University of Madrid R & D strategy. Its aim is to position this University in the naval and oceanic sector from a development and use of technology perspective. It comes from the doctoral programs that the School of Marine Engineers ( ETSIN ) has kept active historically and it has been developed to train doctoral students in the theories and methodologies of greater relevance in the major research topics in Naval and Oceanic Engineering. This program helps to build the complete set of three cycles of university education in the area of Naval and Oceanic Engineering. It includes the most advanced research in a technological area that has always been important in Spain. Due to the current global economy, the competitiveness with third countries is difficult in areas such as capacity or price; therefore, competitiveness should be based on aspects of innovation and technological advancement. It is for this reason that we provide society with doctors with adequate training in the area, who will achieve the objective of advancing the knowledge of naval and ocean technology, which in turn will have a significant impact on the sustainable use of oceans, whose resources of all kinds will be shortly the cornerstone of development. The lines of research offered by the program are: 1) Hydrodynamics and Sloshing. 2) Experimental, Numerical and Computer-aided Design in Marine Vessels and Development artifacts. 3) Energy Exploitation of Marine Currents. 4) Fuel Cells and Hydrogen. Oceanic and Naval applications. 5 ) Hybrid materials. Oceanic and Naval applications. 6) Welding. Corrosion. Oceanic and Naval applications. 7) Structures and marine constructions. 8) Safety and Maritime Transport. 9) Aquaculture and Fisheries.

The program promotes agreements to foster national and international cooperation and participation in international R & D and collaboration with the business sector as a vehicle for funding research activities. Research teams that collaborate in the program are actively involved in R & D in different public national and international programs, integrating into consortia made up of universities, research centers and industry. Some group collaboration with companies in the development of R & D financed by companies must be added.