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, its home to the largest engineered systems ever built by humans.

The Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor was started in 1879 with an act of Congress authorizing a Navy officer to teach “steam engineering and iron shipbuilding.” Since this modest beginning, NAME has grown into a world-wide leader in education and research, with 16 tenured or tenure track faculty, 6 research faculty, 1 professor of practice, and 11 staff, serving our undergraduate and graduate students along with a network of some 3,000 living alumni.

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