Course Overview

Course Title: Green Shipping and Marine Renewable Energy

Relevant SDGs: SDGs 7 & 9

Credit(s):  2

Course Description:

The world has abundant natural energy resources from the wind, wave and tides. Being different from the traditional fossil fuels, these energy resources will never run out. Renewable energy is essential for reducing the potential devastating effects of climate change, and protecting the natural environment for future generations. Therefore, when we are talking about the future offshore industry, marine renewable energy stands in the breach. At the same time, the shipping industry is on a revolution for zero emission and unmanned development. There is an urgent demand to develop the technologies to support the sustainable goal in the ocean engineering sectors.

Academic Team

PI:

• Feng aichun，Associate professor, School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, fengaichun@sjtu.edu.cn

Collaborators:

• Zhiming Yuan, Senior lecturer, University of Strathclyde at Glasgow.
• Eduardo Aoun Tannuri, Professor, University of São Paulo, eduat@usp.br
• Atilla Incecik, Professor, University of Strathclyde at Glasgow, atilla.incecik@strath.ac.uk

What skills will students get?

1. Understand the state-of-the-art technologies in ocean renewable energy and green shipping industry; 
2. Learn the presentation skills
3. Learn how to do a group project with the other members in a team

Mode of Teaching

Lectures, Group discussions and group presentation

Grading

1. Attendance: 30%;
2. Group presentation: 70%;

Course-specific Restrictions

Undergraduate and post graduate student with science and engineering background. Students with Naval architecture and Ocean Engineering is preferred but not essential.

Class Schedule

Instructors

Aichun Feng

Dr. Aichun Feng is an associate professor in School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has the Holder of Lloyd Register Educational Trust oversea scholar and Shanghai Oversea High Level Talent. His main research lies in the Ocean Hydrodynamics.

Zhiming Yuan

Dr. Zhiming Yuan is an Ig Nobel Prize holder. He has been a Lecturer (Assistant Professor, 2015-2019) and then a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor, 2019 -  ) in the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde at Glasgow. He received his PhD degree at Strathclyde in 2014 on Marine Hydrodynamics. His research activity mainly focused on the Marine Hydrodynamics and Offshore Renewable Energy, and he has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles on these areas. Dr Yuan is currently acting as the Scientific Managing Editor for Ocean Engineering, Applied Ocean Research, Coastal Engineering and Marine Structures, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Energy Research and editor board member of several international journals. He is an ITTC committee member and sectary of ITTC Maneuvering Committee. He is currently leading the Hydrodynamics and Ocean Renewable Energy Laboratory (HOREL) at Strathclyde. His research work on wave interference has been selected as Focus on Fluids article by Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and highlighted by Nature (Nature. 565(7741):538), and been widely reported by TheTimes, DailyMail, Today Headline, ScienceNews, 知识分子, etc. 

Course Contact

Aichun feng: fengaichun@sjtu.edu.cn