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Ocean Engineering is the field of study concerned with learning how the various components of the ocean work and how people can best apply technology to the ocean environment. Ocean Engineering deals with such issues as what humans can do to harness the resources of the ocean in a safe and environmentally responsible way.
Ocean Engineering related jobs are found in the oil/gas industry, shipping/ship building industry, ocean research/exploration, environmental agencies, government, and many more. Ocean Engineering expertise is needed in a wide-range of coastal, river, and ocean related engineering projects or research.
Ocean Engineering is actually a very broad discipline. Successful application of technology in the world's oceans requires a wide knowledge base in such areas as Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Oceanography, and many others.
Topics of interest in Ocean Engineering include but are not limited to
- Ocean and coastal processes (physical, chemical, biological)
- Fluid mechanics (computational, environmental)
- Ocean structures (design, construction, operation, maintenance)
- Ship structures / Ocean vehicles (design, construction, operation, maintenance)
- Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs)
- Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)
- Underwater life support
- Ocean sensors and measurement
- Ocean exploration
- Resource extraction (oil, natural gas, minerals, food)
- Management of marine technology
Facilities
- Richmond Field Station Model Towing Tank
- Computational Marine Mechanics Lab
- Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
Useful links
- Departments of Ocean Engineering at these other fine universities:
- Naval research center
- SCRIPPS
- Naval Technology
- Multi-hulls
Research
- Naval Architecture & Offshore Engineering Virtual Library
- List of many different NAOE related links around the WWW
- Hydrodynamics Directorate- David Taylor Model Basin
- U.S. Navy ship/underwater vehicle model testing center
- NOAA Homepage
- Information related to weather and ocean charateristics
- National Data Buoy Center
- Wave, wind, water, etc. information particular to region
- Marine Conservation
- IDS 113 project by Sharon Smith with ideas & links regarding Marine Conservation and what might be done to preserve these resources.