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naval architecture & Marine engineering

FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

Our 141-year history, which began with an act of congress authorizing a Navy officer to teach “steam engineering and iron shipbuilding” has grown into a worldwide leader in education and research.

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Undergraduate through Ph.D. studies.

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World-Class

We train naval architects and marine engineers who lead. Michigan NAME sets the global standard for design and research in every endeavor that touches water.
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Proud History

When he arrived in 1879 to teach shipbuilding, Mortimer E. Cooley, an 1878 Naval Academy graduate, was one of just four professors of engineering at U-M.
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As long as there have been humans, the marine world has connected them. It covers two-thirds of the earth. It transports 90% of the world’s freight, feeds 3 ½ billion people, defines the world’s borders, and fuels our industries and our imaginations. Perhaps the most challenging and unpredictable environment on earth, it’s home to the largest engineered systems ever built by humans.