作为英国主要的海洋技术中心之一，其多年的学术研究和工业咨询经验使大学认识到在开发和保护海洋资源方面需要采取跨学科方法。在当今全球瞬息万变的时代，至关重要的是，科学家和环境决策者必须了解涉及不同开发方案的技术的基本原理，同时应鼓励工程师对环境，社会经济和政治方面的理解。任何拟议的项目。该计划涵盖上述所有领域，其结构具有足够的灵活性，可以满足进入者背景及其各自职业规划的广泛差异。该计划的主要目的是为学生提供解决和解决环境问题的整体方法培训，我们努力保持来自英国，欧盟和海外不同学科的新入职者以及新近毕业生和新入
From its years of academic research and industrial consultancy experience as one of the main UK Marine Technology Centres, the University recognises the need for an interdisciplinary approach to both the development and the protection of ocean resources. In these times of rapid global change, it is essential that scientists and environmental decision-makers understand the fundamentals of the technologies involved in different development options, whilst engineers should be encouraged to adopt an understanding of the environmental, socio-economic and political aspects of any proposed project. This programme covers all of the above areas and its structure is sufficiently flexible to meet the wide variations in background of entrants - and their respective individual career plans. A major aim of the programme is to provide students with training in holistic approaches to addressing and solving environmental problems and we strive to maintain a mix of entrants from different disciplines, from UK, EU and overseas, and from both recent graduates as well as entrants with industrial experience. This mix has previously proven extremely useful in widening the horizons of the individual class members.