Brief Introduction: The School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering (NAOCE) was founded on December 17th, 2003, which combined the former School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering with the School of Civil Engineering & Mechanics. The newly founded School includes six first-degree disciplines. They are: Naval Architectures and Ocean Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Civil Engineering, Architecture, International Shipping Administration and Harbor, Coastal Engineering. The School presently has six undergraduate programs, nineteen master’s degree programs, three professional master’s degree programs and twelve doctor’s degree programs. There are State Key Lab of Ocean Engineering, two Post-doctor stations, i.e., Engineering Mechanics and Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering, and two National Key Disciplines, namely, the design & Construction of Ship & Offshore Structures and Engineering Mechanics. The Disciplines of Fluid Mechanics and General Mechanics, which are the key disciplines in Shanghai, are also the members of State Key Laboratory of Vibration, Shock & Noise.

Faculty and Staff: The School has altogether 278 faculty and staff members, among which 63 are professors (including 49 doctor-advisors) and 86 are associate professors. Fifty-seven percent of the faculties have doctor’s degree. Among the teachers, there are one academician of the Chinese Academy of Science, three academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, two Chang Jiang professors, two granter by the Premier Foundation, two winners of the Excellent Young Teachers Program of M0E，P．R．C．(EYTP), and one winner of High School Outstanding Faculty. Some of the teachers hold important positions in ITTC, ISSC, M.T.S and other international academic organizations and also in the CSNAME, SCOE, CSTAM, CCES and other domestic academic organizations. The School boasts not only the highly respected and erudite professors of old generation, but also the creative young and middle-aged academic leaders who are actively engaged in the academic frontiers. Not a few of them are national model workers or national model teachers.

Education Facilities: The School owns a State Key Lab of Ocean Engineering (including Ocean Engineering Basin, Towing Tank, Vacuole Lab, Underwater Engineering Lab., CAD/CAM Lab. and Structure Mechanics Lab.), Engineering Mechanics Experiment Center, Civil Engineering and Architecture Experiment Center, Computer-Aided Ship Designing Center and other research centers and talent-nurturing bases. Meanwhile, the School has set up a serial of institutes. They are: the Institute of Ship & Ocean Engineering Design, the Institute of Underwater Engineering, the Institute of Structure Mechanics, the Institute of Harbor, Waterway and hydraulic Engineering, the Institute of Power Plant & Automation, the Institute of Exploration of New Ships and Ocean Engineering Structure, Underwater Engineering Research Institute, the Institute of Engineering Mechanics, the Institute of Civil Construction Engineering, the Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, the Institute of Security and Disaster Reduction, the Institute of Space Structure, the Institute of Flight Vehicle Design, the Institute of Dynamics and Control for Astro-vehicles, the Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Engineering Simulation, the Institute of Solid Dynamics and Structural Strength, the Institute of Structure Engineering, the Institute of Architecture Design and Environment, the Institute of Engineering Management, the Constructing Project Quality Testing Station, Shanghai Andi Architecture Design Corporation, and Shanghai JianTong Engineering Construction Corporation. The establishments of these research centers have built a fine bridge for the education and basic research works to serve better for national defense and economic development both of our country and of Shanghai. Meanwhile, the School has built up close cooperation with Modern Design Group, Hudong Shipyard and other famous enterprises, which provides the faculty members and the students with a good practicing stage.

Education and Research Achievements: With a strict and scientific tradition of education, the school has formed the character of “solid fundamentals, strict training and strong adaptability” by paying persistent emphasis on the combination of theory with practice, fundamental theoretical research and engineering application research. Under the construction of national “211 PROJECT” and national “985 PROJECT” for the recent three years, the School’s education and research work has been elevated to a higher level, gaining a number of national, ministerial and provincial awards, including seven prizes of Teaching Achievement Award, over twenty prizes of Science and Technology Achievement Award, and so on. The School has published 30 academic books and textbooks, and be granted more than 50 funds from National Natural Science Funds of China. The School takes an active part in “863 project”, “973 projects”, and many other national or regional key project researches. With a steady rising in research funds for successive years, the research investment has mounted up to 40 million a year. The School is actively expanding its international corporations and exchanges in education and science & technology, and has established good cooperation with relevant Schools and Departments of ten famous universities from eight foreign countries, collaborating in nurturing talents and tackling key problems of science & technology. Professor Wu Yaozu (academician of America Academy of Engineering and China Academy of Science) and Professor Zhang Zixiong (academician of China Academy of Engineering and professor of Hong Kong University) were appointed as the consulting professors, and other 10 well-known scholars were appointed as the guest profess ors.

Admission and Employment: In the year of 2004, the undergraduate program admission is carried out by Schools. Except the discipline of Architecture, all other disciplines are included in the School of Ocean Engineering (or Civil Construction). And in the fourth semester, students will choose their favorite Majors from a wide range of disciplines (except Architecture). Graduates from this School are popular among employers. The average demand ratio of our students is 4:1 (the total demands/ the total graduates), with an average employment rate as high as 97%. Our graduates are employed in General Office of the State Council, China Academy of Building Research, ZTE, CSSC and other China's State Organs, research institutes, State owned enterprises, private enterprises, and over-sea funded enterprises, doing excellent jobs in their own positions.

Student Activities: Based on general educations, the School stresses on students’ creative spirit and overall ability, and cultivate them into modernized and internationalized competent people. Presently there are 1572 students in the School, among which 976 are undergraduate students, 283 are graduate students, 133 are engineering graduate students and 180 are doctoral Candidates. The students have set up SCNAME Student Branch, Student Civil Engineering Society, Future Architect Society and Engineering Mechanic Society, and other societies. Under the guidance of the teachers, these societies actively expand after-class education, take part in all kinds of social practicing activities, and have yielded substantial results. In the year of 2003, our School’s societies and individuals gained altogether 13 international or domestic awards. The most representative awards include: two most outstanding awards of CCTV Creativity Competition, one excellent work award of ACSA International Student Design Competition and a first prize and a third prize in The 8th Challenge Cup.