School of Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering

The School of Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering at Dalian University of Technology is one of the founding academic units of the university, established in 1949 at the campus on Linggong Road in Dalian, Liaoning Province. It forms part of one of the key national universities under the direct jurisdiction of the Chinese Ministry of Education and is recognised for educating high-level engineers in ship design, ocean structure analysis and offshore engineering. The school operates several high-level scientific research platforms, including the National Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, the State Key Laboratory for Structural Analysis of Industrial Equipment, and the National Engineering Research Center for Shipbuilding, supporting both fundamental research and applied engineering for the Chinese and international maritime industries. Programmes cover four-year undergraduate naval architecture and ocean engineering degrees, together with masters and doctoral studies, complemented by sponsored research projects with shipyards, classification societies and offshore operators. Within the broader marine services context, the school's academic staff and research centres undertake work in vibration analysis and dynamic balancing, noise and vibration measurement on ships and offshore platforms, hydroelastic analysis, sloshing and slamming studies, fluid-structure interaction simulations, and underwater inspection-related research using acoustic and optical techniques. Dalian University of Technology is also recognised as a member of the International Towing Tank Conference, providing access to model basin testing capabilities used in the validation of merchant ship and offshore platform designs. DNV has historically engaged with the school on collaborative research and training initiatives.