MASTER

IN YACHT DESIGN

ANNOUNCEMENT
15 thedition

Master sponsored by the Consiglio Nazionale degli Architetti Pianificatori

Paesaggisti e Conservatori, releases 15 professional credits

The program of the Master courses by Quasar Design University started in 1988, among
the first ones in Italy and eleven years before the university reform that with the Law
509 of 1999 established University Masters. Since then the formula didnt change even
if the programs are constantly upgraded in every new edition. Strengthened by an expe-
rience of more than twenty years, today the Quasar starts courses which have a
structure, duration, scientific level and professionalizing efficiency in compliance with
whats established by the MIUR. The distinctive character of Quasar Masters is the
attention in keeping a particular balance between theoretic-disciplinary basics that
define their contents and the tight cohesion with the practice of the professions to
which they give rise.
SUMMARY

Duration: 1 year from the 22nd March 2018 to the 22nd February 2019

Deadline to apply: 2nd February 2018

Organizing institution: Quasar Design University www.quasar.university - Tel. +39 06 8557078

Direction of the Master: Marco Amadio

Council of the course:

Marco Amadio, Marco Brivio, Gabriele Brivio, Antonio Luxardo, Stefano Milanesi, Benedetto
Todaro

Tutor of the Course: Floria Oliveri

Scholarships:
A scholarship to every 10 participants, that covers the 50% of the participation fee of the Master.

Contacts:info@quasar.university
EDUCATIONAL TARGETS

The target of the Master is to direct students through a serious and complete professional
experience carried out on the entire cycle of conceiving and realization of recreational crafts to
work with success in designing new models and in refitting, as free lance professionals or inside
workshops and productive facilities. Following its tradition, the Quasar Design University offers
educational programs that join efficient professional experiences with the opportunity to accom-
plish strong theoretical and methodical basis. In this way the graduate from the Master will be
able to express an outstanding operational versatility and autonomy, optimizing his own profes-
sional chances.
For this in the Yacht Design Master we deal with themes that, proceeding step by step towards
specialisms, frame step by step the complexity of the theme inside clear reference systems to
help the fast acquisition of familiarity with direct applications.
Students will acquire familiarity with various types of boats, they will learn the recent evolution of
boating: classification, nomenclature and standards; the characteristics of the boating trade, the
main productive facilities, materials and building techniques in use. Reaching to the project they
will be able to draw up the correct distribution of weights and the internal functional partition of
a boat; they will know how to efficiently use, in the project, the proper CAD tools; they will be able
to chose the most proper method to build surfaces suitable for the CAM transfer for the milling of
pieces, they will be able to define the hydrostatic and hydrodynamic features of the project and to
chose the most suitable water lines; they can look after the interior design, going through the
calculation of the boats structure, of the applicable powers and through the study of the most
efficient equip ( in the case of sailing boats); they complete the education of basis and experien-
ces of project management, the study of techniques and rules for the industrial reproduction, and
furthermore rules and ways of protection of the design idea, and of the patrimony of the environ-
ment and of the sea.
 PROGRAM

PRESENTATION

Teachers are high profile Architects, Designers and Engineers who currently work and collaborate
with the most important national and international shipyards.
Lessons and workshops will bring from the starting concept to the completion of the project in
every detail reaching to the development of constructive drawings of a sail boat with a supporting
engine and of two motorboats that can be built in the shipyard. At the lessons of methodology and
of modelling 3D hulls and substructures, externals and interiors, will be put side by side to work-
shop techniques where they will right away start the ship design of the yacht. Teachers will guide
and follow the development of individual projects.
Production companies and shipyards, during the path, will help with their experience and will host
students in technical surveys and also for stages to complete the educational value of the course.

SUBJECT MATTER:

Types of boats
Processes of industrialization of production
Custom Design
Motorboats
Sailboats
Design of hills and water lines
Boat equipment structure
Exterior design
Interior design
Preliminary and executive design and production drawings
Onboard assemblies
Design of stamps for numerical control machines (CAD/CAM)
Project management and design coordination
Programs of assisted design
Start-up of surfaces and NURBS design
Definition of dynamic-static frameworks and calculation of frameworks and dislocations
FIRST LEVEL ACADEMIC MASTER IN YACHT DESIGN

DISCIPLINARY FIELDS ATC HOURS

3D modelling training 10 100
Naval and technical design 19 190
Structural and aesthetical design 16 160
Final project 5
50
Stage 10 450
Self-studying 600
TOTAL CREDITS 60 1500

T.E.O. = Type of educational offer 1 Theoretic lessons 1 ATC = 6h

2 Theoretic-practical activities 1 ATC = 10h

EDUCATIONAL MODULES
3D modelling Training
Ship and technical design yacht design
Structural and aesthetical design (162 hours):
Design and styling
design research yacht Series, yacht Custom, sail
Stage
1st MODULE
3D Modelling Training

Programs of assisted drawing used: when available at the beginning of the course, there will be
used the most updated releases of the most important software of the field.

The training for the use of three-dimensional software of modelling is set as a real intensive
course of NURBS modelling and rendering.
After a period of training specifically focused on the practice of software, students will put them
into practice for the development of the project.
The course is aimed to the use of nurbs surfaces, to the creation of 2 level curves and their star-
ting and tangency test. Every math will be created and tested following standards of ship design
aimed to the creation of solid milling models.
The models will be thought following the stamping techniques and tested with proper software
following draft angles, tangency and co-planarity, every deck will be converted in a stamp dealing
with the creation of joining elements and of stakes of joint-stamp.

2nd MODULE
Ship and technical design yacht design

In this module, divided in Engineering and Onboard assembly, students will deal with all the
technical-regulatory and technical-functional matters that will be the basis for the following
work. The subjects that students will deal with are: design of hull lines, supporting structures and
register limits; regulation and ergonomic design in small spaces; onboard assembly and building
techniques and serial prototyping.
Furthermore, students will create, starting from the hull, Argonaut projects to prepare the
building of the hulls in numerically controlled jigs.
Students will deal with all the assembly with the creation of piping and main line, every implant
will be correlated with technical and specific assembly documentation and in the electrical
specific , cabling and techniques of marking and protection from external agents.
Students will deal with matters about the protection from galvanic powers and new rising techni-
ques, treatment of the air in small spaces and aeronautic ionization and ozonization systems.
3rd MODULE
Structural and aesthetic design
Design and styling and design research (yacht Series yacht Custom sail)

Structural and aesthetic design - Design and styling

Students will learn about building materials and techniques for externals and interior set up,
structural supports such as their connections with the hull, systems of removable panelling for
assembly, interior design and exterior design.
Furthermore students will deal with all the classification of the ship and its design typology.
Students will deal with different matters about the building of metal ships, especially for the ones
lightened with aluminium, race ships built in composite, carbon and aramid (Kevlar); the building
of interior complements in lightened materials and or directly integrated by stamp.
Furthermore students will deal with the so said set-off design, that provides for the realization
of all the furniture starting from a GRP (fiberglass) with the only addition of doors and refinishing
decorations such as fine woods, panelling cladding and surfaces. This technique provides for the
integration of all the onboard assembly that students dealt with in the Module 2.

Design Research (yacht Series yacht Custom sail)

At the end of the first four months, the student can decide if to get specialized in the three diffe-
rent types of ship building: serial ship design, custom or sail yacht.
Students will analyze all the types of recreational craft in the category that goes from 30 to 55
(feet) differentiating serial products, semicustom boats and water lines until they reach to the
interiors.
Furthermore they will analyze all the series currently produced by the major Italian and foreigner
shipyards to better understand the current trade and future prospects of development of the
yacht series product.

In the last past of the Module 3 students will develop the exam project, freely chosen by the
student after that he deeply studied all the proposed types. They will be able to choose between
different project themes.
4th MODULE
Stage

At the end of the previous modules each student that regularly and profitably took part to at least
the 80% of the frontal lessons and workshops, will have the possibility to make a stage of 450
hours divided in 3 and half months inside companies, professional studios and shipyards that
work and produce in the field since years, to complete the educational path, through a direct
applying of the work done in the classroom in shipyards. The selection priorities of the final desti-
nations of the period of stage is decided considering the valuations that students received during
the frontal lessons and workshops.

SELF-STUDYING AND ON LINE TUTORING

During the Master, the student, coordinated by teachers, has to proceed with the design of his
boat starting from the concept until the elaboration of technical drawings, and furthermore he
has to create all the graphic documentation for the building of models, with the numeric control
and with the hybrid technique (Argonaut sections).
Each student can have a continuous on-line assistance and exchange documentations through
e-mail with teachers and assistants.
Each project will be constantly followed so that, once every part of it is completed, it can become
an executive implement.
PARTNER COMPANIES

AZIMUT-BENETTI S.P.A. DIVISIONE ATLANTI BCOOL ENGINEERING

COMAR YACHTS CANTIERI GAGLIOTTA

GALLINEA GAMMANAUTICA OBP

MAZZER S.R.L.
IDROITALIA

NAET s.r.l. NAUTICA CALA GALERA S.P.A.

WEBASTO NU.MID.I.A QAGENCY ROMA

Sponsored by the Consiglio Nazionale degli Architetti Pianificatori Paesaggisti e Conservatori,
releases 15 Professional Credits.

CALENDAR
The Course, that lasts 1500 hours, provides for 450 hours of frontal education, 450 hours of stage
and 600 hours of self-studying and online tutoring.
The frontal education, the workshop and the online tutoring last one year, they start on the
22/03/2018 and end within the 22/02/2019.

The lessons in the classroom take place twice a week: Friday night and Saturday morning.
The specific calendar with the hours of lessons will be available within the first lesson of the
Course.

During the educational cycles workshops held by businessmen, constructors and experts will
take place about all the dealt subjects. At the end of the educational path a final exam will take
place, which passing is a necessary requisite to achieve the Masters degree of the Quasar Design
University.

The Quasar Design University might modify the educational program, always respecting the hours
and targets of the course, to guarantee a better efficiency of the experience, when new software
are available, when testimonials of partners are set as an opportunity for students to make use of
an added value.

FREQUENCY

To achieve the Certificate and to be able to have the final exam, the minimal obligatory frequency
is of 80% of the hours (this percentage has to be calculated on the total of hours for each module
of frontal lessons and workshops, and for the stage to guarantee, through the continuity and the
proper concentration, the efficiency of the experience). The subscription at the same time to
other academic Masters or to other AFAM courses is not allowed.
MASTERS DEGREE
The diplomas will be given, at the end of the educational path, to students who passed the final
exam and who comply with the obligations of frequency and with the payments.

HEADQUARTERS AND EQUIPMENTS

Frontal lessons and workshops will take place at the headquarters of the Quasar Design Universi-
ty. Some interventions might take place in other places: the Quasar Design University specifies
that it can distribute its students in a different headquarters or modify the place where the
lessons take place once the sign ins are done, without to invalidate the correct and fruitful educa-
tion. Each student will have a dedicated computer, equipped with specific software.

Stages will take place at the headquarters assigned by the chosen companies (dislocated in
different areas, in Italy and abroad).

ACCESS

ACCESS REQUIREMENTS

The Yacht Design Master is aimed to graduates and near-graduates of first and second level in
Engineering, Architecture and Design, to professionals or lovers of the branch with knowledge
about design and basic abilities in CAD modelling interested in the practice of design in sailing in
all its aspects: from the features of the trade and of the productive facilities to the theory of the
boat; from the starting setting of the project, to the interior design, until the direction of the
building in the shipyard.
An elementary knowledge of the English language is required.

ACCESS MODALITIES
The Yacht Design Master wants a minimal number of 7 participants.
People interested have to send by ordinary mail to the address of the Quasar Design University or
by email at the address segreteria.amministrativa@quasar.university, not later than the 2nd
February 2018:

admission request filled in all its parts (the model is available in paper, if requested, and avai-
lable on the website of the Quasar Design University, at the page dedicated to the Y.D. Master);

the sign in paying of Euro 990,00 (net of VAT in law), it has to be considered as a down payment
of the sign in fee of the Master, that has to be adjusted after receiving communication of suitabili-
ty from the Selection Board. The sign in down payment will be totally paid back if the candidate
doesnt pass the admission interview.

To the admission request have to be attached:

Curriculum vitae
Letter of motivation in which the applicant has to explain the reasons why he chose the educa-
tional path
A copy of an identification document
1 coloured photo card format
A copy of the diploma
Eventual other achieved qualifications

For the selection interviews:

Its useful to present at the interview a portfolio of works and projects made (not necessarily
relevant with the subjects of the Master). Furthermore, during the interview will be verified the
level of knowledge of software that will be used (AutoCAD, Rhinoceros) and of the English langua-
ge. The suitability of candidates will be judged considering the curricula sent, the quality of the
works presented in the portfolio and to the result of the aptitude interview.
In case of suitable candidates in a number that goes over the availability of the places, we will
proceed with a selection following the order of arrival of the requests.

The qualifying selection will be held by the Selection Board, who will inform the results of the
interviews within the 15th February 2018.
SIGN IN AND INSURANCES

The participation fee of 7.110,00 Euros (net of VAT in law) has to be paid following the subscribed
modalities at the moment of the subscribing of the contract. The possibility to pay the sign in fee
in rates is provided (for online information: segreteria.amministrativa@quasar.university).
The sign in fee INCLUDES the Insurances Accidents (INAIL).
The lacking of confirmation in the specified times will be considered as a renounce and the next
candidate in order of presentation of the request will take his place.
For the final exam a fee of 350,00 Euros(net of VAT in law) has to be paid.

CONTRACT

The technical organization and the economical management of the Master are taken care of by
the Quasar Progetto S.r.l. (company property of the Quasar Design University brand).
The relationship between the student and Quasar Design University (registered trade mark of the
Quasar Progetto S.r.l. VAT 04095221000 ROMA) will be regulated by a proper contract that has
to be signed with Quasar Progetto S.r.l. when pre-signing in and after the sign-in.
A copy of the contract is visible at the office of the Quasar Design University, that works full time
h 9 am 9 pm from Monday to Friday and Saturday from 9 am to 3 pm, tel. +39 0685301487 fax
0685831148

PAYMENT MODALITIES

cash (up to 999,99)

credit card, bancomat
check assigned to Quasar Progetto Srl
bank transfer assigned to Quasar Progetto srl Deutsche Bank
IBAN: IT55E0310403203000000822088

AGREEMENTS AND KINDS OF PREFERENTIAL FINANCING ARE ACTIVE

For information about signing in, kinds of financing and scholarship:
segreteria.amministrativa@quasar.university.
 SCHOLARSHIP

A scholarship Is available in one of every ten participants, corresponding to the 50% of the sign in
fee of the Master and it will be given at the end of the final exams by the Selecting Board and on
its unquestionable judge.

People interested have to send their candidacy and the admission request to the Master,
following the terms specified in the Announcement for the distribution of the scholarship at the
e-mail address segreteria.amministrativa@quasar.university sending the following documents:

scholarship request, filled in all its parts, following the model downloadable from the website of
the Quasar Design University, at the page dedicated to the Master in YD.

ISEE model

For the selection of the candidates to the Scholarship, we will analyze the results of the work
made during the Master and the final thesis.

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