Will AI Replace Marine Engineers and Naval Architects?

Perform monitoring activities to ensure that ships comply with international regulations and standards for life-saving equipment and pollution preventatives.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Design complete hull and superstructure according to specifications and test data, in conformity with standards of safety, efficiency, and economy.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Conduct analyses of ships, such as stability, structural, weight, and vibration analyses.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Study design proposals and specifications to establish basic characteristics of craft, such as size, weight, speed, propulsion, displacement, and draft.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Maintain contact with, and formulate reports for, contractors and clients to ensure completion of work at minimum cost.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Coordinate activities with regulatory bodies to ensure repairs and alterations are at minimum cost and consistent with safety.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Check, test, and maintain automatic controls and alarm systems.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Prepare technical reports for use by engineering, management, or sales personnel.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Design layout of craft interior, including cargo space, passenger compartments, ladder wells, and elevators.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Prepare, or direct the preparation of, product or system layouts and detailed drawings and schematics.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Evaluate performance of craft during dock and sea trials to determine design changes and conformance with national and international standards.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Inspect marine equipment and machinery to draw up work requests and job specifications.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Evaluate operation of marine equipment during acceptance testing and shakedown cruises.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Conduct analytical, environmental, operational, or performance studies to develop designs for products, such as marine engines, equipment, and structures.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Establish arrangement of boiler room equipment and propulsion machinery, heating and ventilating systems, refrigeration equipment, piping, and other functional equipment.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Investigate and observe tests on machinery and equipment for compliance with standards.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Prepare plans, estimates, design and construction schedules, and contract specifications, including any special provisions.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Design and oversee testing, installation, and repair of marine apparatus and equipment.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Conduct environmental, operational, or performance tests on marine machinery and equipment.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Analyze data to determine feasibility of product proposals.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Determine conditions under which tests are to be conducted, as well as sequences and phases of test operations.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Confer with research personnel to clarify or resolve problems and to develop or modify designs.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Review work requests and compare them with previous work completed on ships to ensure that costs are economically sound.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Supervise other engineers and crew members and train them for routine and emergency duties.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Act as liaisons between ships' captains and shore personnel to ensure that schedules and budgets are maintained, and that ships are operated safely and efficiently.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Maintain records of engineering department activities, including expense records and details of equipment maintenance and repairs.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Maintain and coordinate repair of marine machinery and equipment for installation on vessels.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Oversee construction and testing of prototype in model basin and develop sectional and waterline curves of hull to establish center of gravity, ideal hull form, and buoyancy and stability data.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Procure materials needed to repair marine equipment and machinery.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Schedule machine overhauls and the servicing of electrical, heating, ventilation, refrigeration, water, and sewage systems.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.