Talk:Engine department

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People seem to not understand what this article is about

People seem to be grossly misunderstanding the purpose of this article. It is not a place to digress onto specific issues or bits of technology inside a ship; nor is it about seafaring officers. By all means add a massive long list of related things at the bottom in the "see also" section, but please, for the love of god, stick to the scope of the article! The article is a top level subject article, to understand what sort of content and structure this article should have, please look at other engineering discipline overview articles (I believe there are links to them at the bottom of the page), Mechanical Engineering is there as a link (and a subtle hint) at the top of the article. This is why I changed the article in the first place, to cut out all the overly-specific stuff about "Marine Engineering Officers" on ships (something I have knowledge of); and to replace it with a discussion of the history of Marine Engineering, using Archimedes as a key figure in ancient history... again a hint as to what the article should contain. Stuff about propellors, engines, corrosion, etc, is more suited to being in the article about Ships, as well as deserving their own articles; but this article is essentially a history and overview of an entire engineering discipline that includes a broader range of things than just being about the guts of ships or the staff who maintain them. Clear?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.32.126.12 (talk) 16:34, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Please note, "background" section is duplicated in this article.

TSIA..

Le mous (talk) 15:44, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Note to the editor of the article.

Hello,

There is a site which I thought would relate to this article. You may consider adding details about SeaFolks.com. Its the world's first online community of its kind, for merchant navy officers around the world. Thank you.

Regards Umesh —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.95.4.30 (talk) 20:07, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

While Seafolks has a few engineers on it, i'd rather see a few real marine engineer forums instead. Here are the two best: Forum: http://dieselduck.blogspot.com/ Forum: http://gcaptain.com/forum/marine-engineering/ --69.148.52.55 (talk) 06:36, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

This article is about the general subject of Marine Engineering, which is the discipline of the design and operation of mainly mechanical systems in a marine environment - an Indian forum for merchant navy officers is not relevant to any of the content within this article. You may wish to append it to an article about social networking, but I doubt you will get away with that either... obviously the purpose of adding links is that they provide a credible peer-reviewed publicly available reference some of the content in an article; there is nothing on your little forum that does that; sorry - no advertising.

Wrong name

This page is about marine engineers not marine engineering! It is only about people on ships whereas it includes aspects of oilfield structures, etc. It should be about the skills required and the interaction with, for example, oceanography. Adresia (talk) 14:59, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

I tried to move the page to Marine engineer (which is currently a redirect page) but Wikipedia wouldn't let me. How can it be done please? Biscuittin (talk) 10:11, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Agreed; it also looks like a non-native-English-speaker (my guess, a French-speaker) has been "at it"... the content needs placing on a "Marine Engineering Officer" page; and the content here completely replaced with a discussion about what "Marine Engineering" is; and without muddling it up with Naval Architecture, which probably already has a page elsewhere. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.115.6.39 (talk) 20:36, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

ano ba yan ang baho no lynlyn — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.54.13.54 (talk) 10:09, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

"Subsea" and marine engineering

The article Subsea is currently (2009-09-27) written as if the term "subsea" is the exclusive province of the oil and gas part of the energy industry. This would appear to not be the case. The term is widely used in marine biology, geology and in the emerging field of deep-water, floating wind turbine technology. So in my view, the article should not be so narrow as to exclude marine engineering more broadly. Could I interest any other editors, or marine engineers, here in taking a look at that article and weighing in? N2e (talk) 16:03, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

The article scope has now been fixed, and adequately covers a broader cross-section of industries utilizing subsea technology. N2e (talk) 19:51, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

February 2010

some one he called esmaeil alansari will be the professional in marine engneering if the god want that happen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.39.224.66 (talk) 00:18, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Engineering Department redirect

I searched for "Engineering Department" and was redirected here... that seems like a bit of a stretch, if not downright wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.178.203.79 (talk) 19:46, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

I have changed the redir to a (somewhat) better article, which at least has a section entitled "Engineering department". If there later becomes a conflict where "engineering dept." is used for more than one article, others can turn the redir page into a disambig page. Cheers. N2e (talk) 19:42, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Marine Engineer redirect

Since the article contained details of both Marine Engineering Department and Marine Engineers, I have created another article out of this article with the name of Marine Engineer which was originally redirected to this page. I have deleted all the details referring to the topic of Marine Engineer from this article and they can be found in Marine engineer now. Aliahmed47 (talk) 19:04, 5 July 2012 (UTC)