Most engineering training programmes are described in terms of topics covered. This one is better described in terms of what you produce — because the work is the learning. Over 10 weeks, participants in our Engineering Foundation Programme complete weekly exercises, marked quizzes, and a capstone project that replicates a …
You can read DNV-RP-C203. You can work through EN ISO 15614-1. You can open BS 4-1:2020 and find the section modulus table. The standards exist to be used without a training course. Nobody is going to test whether you attended a lecture before they accept your calculation. So the question …
A structural detail is subjected to a stress range of 100 MPa at N = 10⁶ cycles. Is this acceptable? The answer most engineers give — if they have some familiarity with fatigue design — is to check whether 100 MPa is below the allowable stress for the applicable FAT …
There is a gap between what a mechanical or civil engineering degree teaches about structural mechanics and what offshore structural engineering practice actually requires. It is not a gap in intelligence or effort. It is a gap in specific, code-anchored knowledge that nobody bothered to write down in a usable …
In 1980, the mobile offshore drilling unit Alexander L. Kielland capsized in the North Sea during a storm. One hundred and twenty-three people died. The formal investigation concluded that a fatigue crack in a brace end — a crack that had propagated from a weld toe over an estimated 10,000 …
Building the Next Generation of Offshore Engineers: Introducing the Offshore & Mechanical Engineering Foundation Programme The offshore and marine sectors continue to face a challenge that many organisations recognise but few have successfully addressed. While graduate engineers often arrive with strong academic foundations, there remains a significant gap between university …
