- Developing products from seafood wastes: chitin,  chitosan, colorants, flavors, fish glue,  fish oil;

- Producing fishery value-added products:  surimi, food analog, functional foods, etc;

- Establishing standards, models for testing, monitoring and alerting risks in aquaculture and food processing;

- Developing export products from coffee, tea.

- The automation in ship design and building;

- Designing and building specialized ships such as submarines, hovercrafts, hydrofoils;

- Using new material and new fuels in transportation engineering etc;

-Using new fuels.

- Product design and development;

- CAD/CAM/CIM;

- Automation and mechatronics;

- Seafood and aquaculture equipment;

- Renewable energy.

- Clean energy;

- Saving energy;

- Automatics;

- Electrical and electronic equipment on fishing vessels

- Structure optimization;

- Construction technology and construction project management;

- Automatic design;

- Friction Welding technology;

- Composite concrete material;

- Clay material mixing additive.   

- Wide rage of field studying the sustainable development of fisheries;

- Effect of climate change on coastal area;

-  Efficiency of fishing boat, issue relating to fisheries enterprise management;

- Factors speeding up export performance;

- Seafood consumption behaviours.

- Design and organize information systems in financial accounting, management accounting and cost accounting.

- Design internal control systems and study other topics in auditing.

- Study and design financial management models.

- Study and design banking management models.    

- Study on nutrition and food safety;

- Pathological diagnosis in aquaculture;

- Monitoring, consulting, design and construction of environmental treatment systems

- Environmental studies and impact assessment;

- Conservation of aquatic genetic resource.  

- Improving fishing gear to raise fishing effect and resource protection;

- Navigation safety for people and fishing vessels;

- Projecting fishing vessel and gear mechanism;  

- Applying new technology in fishing and fishing management, such as GIS and RS;

- Evaluating impact of climate change on fishing.