Gdynia Maritime University GMU

The Faculty of Marine Engineering of Gdynia Maritime University is the first university faculty in Poland to obtain and hold ISO 9001 quality certificate, which is a guarantee of a high quality of education and research.

The Faculty employees conduct following scientific research:

• research into the role of foreign substances in shaping light field in the marine environment.
• optimizing the conditions of petroleum products degradation,
• analysis of correlations between technology proceedings at sea and natural environment,
• properties of aluminium alloys and junction connections applied in marine construction,
• evaluation of the possibility of using multiphase shells produced with the use of welding technologies for increasing the operating durability of vessel machine and appliance parts,
• optimizing the parameters for technological processes of surface treatment of marine machine parts,
• research into the running-in process in terms of temperature increase of the working system elements in a machine tool,
• regeneration of machine appliance and machine parts,
• hydrodynamic theory of lubrication,
• marine environment protection,
• research into vessel hull integrity while affected by a blast wave as a result of non-contact underwater detonation,
• theory of shells applied to marine constructions,
• analysis of working processes of combustion engines,
• diagnostics of ship combustion engines,
• analysis of ship propulsion efficacy,
• simulation of ship propulsion processes,
• new generations of ship propulsion.

The faculty has modern didactic and scientific laboratories and equipment, including engine room simulators.