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Only twelve years after Fulton’s Clermont had her first voyage, the Savannah marked the first sea voyage from America to Europe.

The integration of a steam engine into a watercraft to create a marine steam engine was the start of the marine engineering profession. Fulton's ship used the engine to power a small wooden paddle wheel as its marine propulsion system. In 1807, Robert Fulton successfully used a steam engine to propel a vessel through the water.

Modern marine engineering dates back to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (early 1700s). It includes but is not limited to power and propulsion plants, machinery, piping, automation and control systems for marine vehicles of any kind, as well as coastal and offshore structures.Īrchimedes is traditionally regarded as the first marine engineer, having developed a number of marine engineering systems in antiquity. Marine engineering applies a number of engineering sciences, including mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronic engineering, and computer science, to the development, design, operation and maintenance of watercraft propulsion and ocean systems. Here it is also taken to include the engineering of other ocean systems and structures – referred to in certain academic and professional circles as “ocean engineering.” Marine engineering is the engineering of boats, ships, submarines, and any other marine vessel. For the operating engineer also called a marine engineer, see engineering officer (ship). This article is about a field of design engineering.