- slide 1 of 3 What is a Marine Engineer? Marine engineering is
a specialized field of study which deals with the engineering
aspects of marine related equipment found on board ships, boats
and so forth. Infact it is a very vast subject and there are
several related fields of study such as naval architecture which
may not directly fall under the purview of marine engineering
but act as sister arenas. If you want to have a broad idea about
the types of machineries found on board commercial vessels, just
take a look at this article. Marine vessels come in various
shapes and sizes and mainly we will mainly study about
commercial vessels although naval vessels are not much different
at least as far their engineering aspects are concerned, though
they do have substantial differences in terms of their purpose
and operations. Here is an interesting link in the form of a
short descriptive video about marine engineers and naval
architects - slide 2 of 3 Naval Architecture: while marine
engineering deals mainly with th