ABSTRACT
Design is widely recognised as being an activity central to engineering education (McLaren, 2008), and many, if not all, naval architecture degrees will feature some ship design activity. Technological and social developments have an impact on education, however, and in discussing the use of new computer-aided approaches in preliminary ship design, Pawling et al (2017) raised the question of “what might be the new key fundamentals of engineering teaching”, noting that:
“From 2019, most first-year undergraduates will be fully “21st century students”, however it could be argued that some universities are still teaching them using 20th century tools and 19th century methods”.
