This learning guide presents the information relative to the subject of Naval Engines and Machines of the 4th course of the Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering. The guide collects the skills that the students have to acquire in this course, the calendar of planned educational activities, the contents and their temporal programme, an estimation of the student's volume of work and the specific criteria of evaluation.
Naval Engines and Machines will cover the propulsion and auxiliary systems that can be find in the Navy ships. Besides, combustion engines thermal cycles will be studied, mainly Otto and Diesel; then Marine Diesel engines will be covered in a deeper way, studying the parts of the engines in existent engines in the laboratory, observing material and manufacturing processes of the different parts, realising the multidisciplinary aim of the subject.
This subject of the Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering showcases to the student the main types of naval engines, the configurations of the control and propulsion systems, and the auxiliary systems of heat pumps, water and waste treatment, etc.
