For a career in shipbuilding and repair

KOCHI: Shipbuilding and repair is one big avenue for the youngsters for it guarantees a wide range of employment opportunities world-wide. As shipbuilding courses come under  naval architecture it covers a number of areas such as designing, supervising, consultancy, marketing and sales, operations, regulation, surveying and overseeing, research and development and education and training. There are a variety of technical and managerial posts at big and small companies, consultancies and government departments that are highly paid. The field of shipbuilding mostly deals with subjects such as construction and designing of freighters, offshore oil recovery,   maintenance of tankers and passenger-ships,  construction or designing of warships, creating blueprint of aircraft carriers and submarines, marine metals and corrosion, environmental protection, global climate monitoring, renewable energy,  maintenance of dockyards, oil rigs and sea-ports, building oceanography research units underwater vehicles, remote sensing, marine transportation, and maintenance of sea-facing buildings/ocean-facing constructionsShipbuilding Courses are generally offered in the form of engineering degrees. Naval Architecture Engineering courses and Naval Engineering Diplomas are offered at the post-graduate level. Indian Institute of Technology-Chennai offers courses in Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur offers B Tech and M Tech courses in Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture, National Institute of Technology Surathkal, Mangalore, offers M Tech in Marine Structures. National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode, offers M Tech in offshore structures. Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, offers MTech in Ocean Technology, Chennai School of Ship Management, Mambakkam, Chennai, offers Diploma Programme in Marine Engineering, College of Engineering , Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, offers BE Naval Architecture, ME Hydraulic, Coastal and Harbour Engineering and Institute of Shipbuilding Technology, Vasco da Gama, Goa, offers a four-year diploma programme in Shipbuilding Engineering. Those who have passed Class XII with science subjects, including Physics, Maths and Chemistry, can join the naval architecture courses. Qualified candidates can readily find work in the ship building industry. They can work as team members to build submarines and hovercraft. They can also find openings in related industries like Oceanography, Fishery and marine life industries.