The coastal zone is an international growth area in terms of work prospects. The programme will provide you with a sound basis for a versatile, challenging and exciting professional career with a broad range of career opportunities within areas such as the oil and gas industry, aquaculture, re- newable energy resources, marine infrastructure, sea and coastal transport. Career opportunities can be found in industry, consulting and construction activities, in public and technical services, and education and research. You will also get a good background for international work and opportunities. In your working life you will often be working in interdisciplinary teams, cooperating and integrating professionals from various fields and background.

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Position: Senior Specialist
Employer: DNV Consulting, Norway

The combined understanding of environmental load effects and structural integrity obtained from my education at NTNU has proven to be a great asset in my professional career. The courses I took on structural, environmental and probabilistic engineering have enabled me to have a career with an international company holding a strong position within offshore, maritime and coastal engineering. I have worked with various tasks in this company such as strategic research, deepwater technology services and safety consulting. Through our global presence I have also been given the opportunity to work abroad for a one year exchange in Houston. Looking back, I realize that my Master’s education from Trondheim has given me a multitude of opportunities that I deeply appreciate.

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Position: Director Institute of Marine Sciences
Employer: University of Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Tanzania

My background is in structural engineering. Through a NORAD fellowship I took a one-year Postgraduate Diploma course in Marine Civil Engineering at NTNU. The course was an eye-opener and paved my way to the art of designing seawater front structures considering the harshness and stochastic nature of marine environment, such as the sea waves, currents and coastal processes. My subsequent doctoral studies at NTNU led to a professional career in Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean Region. This means that I participate in academic teaching in Tanzania, Namibia and Mauritius. As a researcher I have concentrated on issues that touch the local communities: coastal erosion, meteorological variability and the design of coastal protection structures. In 2001, I was appointed Director of the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Dar es Salaam. Here I have chaired working groups and committees and participated in many regional projects and international network activities. My education in Coastal Engineering (hydromechanics, coastal structures and coastal processes) was a unique opportunity and paved the way for my career.

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Position: Superintendent Civil Engineer
Employer: Colombo Port, Sri Lanka

I attended the Diploma course in Port and Coastal Engineering Programme at NTNU, Trondheim, mainly covering Marine Hydrodynamics, Coastal Engineering, Materials, Structural Design and Repair, Port Planning & Design, and Port Engineering. We had the opportunity to learn from renowned international experts in the field. The most valuable component of the course was the project work with the emphasis on the practical application of theories we learned in the class. It was encouraged to have the project work related to actual situations of our work place. This led to our project on “Design and Implementation of an Operation Improvement Program for the Port of Colombo”. This was a project that paved the way to long-term cooperation between the Port and Coastal Engineering Programme at NTNU and the Port of Colombo. The training and experience I gained on this course was instrumental in my career development. This programme not only fulfilled my academic and career goals, but also led to long-term institutional benefits.

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