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| Yacht Design School Brochure
(contains the tuition costs) Enrollment & Software Ordering Drafting Tools & Supplies Ordering
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Yacht Design School is primarily a distance learning
institution, though we have had a few students in residence here. Please read the material in the Brochure first
and then browse the lesson contents pages for the curricula. This will suggest questions which you may find
the answers to in our frequently asked questions. You
may enroll and buy educational software online and receive Lesson One at any time or enroll
through the mail. You may purchase
CAD software or drafting
tools and supplies online as well. All books recommended
for the school both in print and out of print can
now be ordered through us if you wish. "The education, and career, that you don't have to go into debt for." - Tom MacNaughton "Genius is learned behavior" - Tom MacNaughton |
| Degree Program in Naval Architecture with a
Specialty in Yacht & Small Craft Design Course Outline |
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| Student News | Additional Elective Courses, Other Useful Schools, & Internships |
| Computer Assisted Design Course. This brief curriculum is now the most common entry point for most students to their studies with us before tackling the Yacht Design School main curriculum in yacht and small craft naval architecture. It is not a formal prerequisite. It is intended to teach the use of the Rhino CAD package in yacht and small craft naval architecture as thoroughly as possible. This extraordinary design tool is the standard for yacht design firms world wide and is being rapidly adopted by all of us who teach yacht design as well. Taking this course first and then doing the entire main curriculum using on screen design rather than using any manual drafting is now the most workable choice and much less expensive than buying manual drafting equipment which is increasingly hard to get. Use the standard form to enroll and acquire the educational license software. Complete Tuition $899. Most will buy our bundles of the course and the Rhino software. It is also a good time to buy the very useful plug-ins for advanced rendering and even animation at student prices. | |
| Scan&Solve(tm) - We now are able to provide students with this Finite Element Analysis (FEA) plug-in for Rhino. While we have not yet written a curriculum to teach Scan&Solve(tm) we do want to provide basic training in its use. We are happy to suggest exercises, which students can work using Rhino and this plug-in and we will examine the results. Eventually this will evolve into a curriculum which we can offer. FEA allows you to design an object of structural interest in Rhino and then specify the loads on it. "Scan&Solve" then computes the stresses on all parts of the object, revealing whether it will carry the loads, what the strains are, where it deforms and where stresses may concentrate. This makes optimizing parts for the longest possible life much easier and more accurate than any hand method could manage in a reasonable amount of time. Though NASA may use fancier FEA programs, we have at last found an FEA tool, suitable for the average yacht design office, and which is cost effective for students and professionals in this industry. Students can order the educational license for $195, through our Enrollment Form. We fully support this plug-in and offer an optional course as described below. Those who are not students of our school can get an educational license from us, if they can document that they are in fact enrolled in another school for which this software is relevant. Commercial users can purchase commercial licenses through the software section of our Publishing Order Form. | |
| Finite Element Analysis Course - At present this course amounts to a gradually expanding outline of what the functions of Scan&Solve(tm) the FEA plug-in for Rhino are, how to interpret these functions, and a gradually increasing number of projects of different types to test your understanding of how to use FEA in practical yacht and small craft naval architecture. Lesson materials in addition to the manuals provided with the software at the moment consists of personal "one on one" tutorial time which will gradually expand to include both printed materials and video clips as we gain more students. Because the newness of this curriculum will make the instruction process very rough at first the initial pricing of $660 is a token amount, representing a mere 10 hours of estimated instruction time. Surely more actual instruction time will be required than that, but in the interests of keeping the pricing as low as possible we will keep very careful track of the time we spend with each student. As the instruction becomes more standardized we will adjust pricing for new students to reflect actual instruction times. Because this course is paid for with a one time fee, once you have acquired it you will not be asked for more money if and when the rate goes up while you are working on the curriculum. Those who have actually completed the curriculum will be able to ask for copies of any revisions made after their graduation. Graduates will receive a nice framed diploma certifying your understanding of FEA as embodied in the Scan&Solve plug-in. | |
| The Boat School - For those of you who want to learn traditional wooden boat building, modern wood and epoxy boatbuilding, fiberglass construction and construction in more exotic composites, this school will get you the education you need to get an entry level job in the field or the practical knowledge that is so helpful as a student of YDS. Like YDS this is not a high priced school and has a lot of advantages. This school is operated by Husson University a truly excellent private university with a strong emphasis on the professions. | |
| Khan Academy - Contrary to the belief of many aspiring students the math involved in yacht and small craft naval architecture is not very complex. Most people will probably need more help in learning to be careful with their calculations and check their work, than actually needing much math instruction. Of course we are always here to teach anything you didn't get in school at no addtional charge and our "Basic Math Primer" can be emailed to you free. However for those who want to learn math from the simplest of addition problems up through quite advanced subjects, we recommend the Khan Academy www.khanacademy.org This fully endowed online institution is absolutely free and amazingly good at teaching from the simplest concept to the most advanced. Though they started with math they are well on their way to providing a complete university education without charging you a cent. Though we teach in much more depth than they do we sure wish we could build an endowment like that so we could teach for free. | |
| Summer Design Internship – for those who have completed sufficient lessons in the Yacht Design School course to be reasonably acquainted with drafting. Interns will work on actual design projects under the direct supervision of the design staff of MacNaughton Yacht Designs. They will pay for board and room but will not be charged for actual instruction time since they will be working on actual projects which have some economic benefit to the design firm. These positions will rarely be available. |
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