Survey for Interdisciplinary Co-supervision on Bachelor Thesis in Nautical Science

Abstract

As the development of emerging technologies is applied in the maritime industry and nautical operations, an interdisciplinary supervision approach is expected to be designed in this subject to enable students the ability to handle the issues brought by the fusion of industrial conventions and technological evolutions. This paper provides the profile of the participants and the subject in which the co-supervision is to be engaged. We investigate how interdisciplinary supervision and co-supervision can be implemented in the nautical science undergraduate program. The resources of both undergraduate education and maritime-related research at the Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering at NTNU are taken as the principal for the fundamental subject. As expected, not only do the undergraduates are benefitted from the co-supervision, the researchers taking co-supervision responsibilities also pro-mote their insights by absorbing the human-dominant expertise knowledge generated by the students. Through the paper, we propose a route map to explore the mechanism of co-supervision in this subject and the expected outcomes.