GRADUATE FACULTY 1995-96
Chairman: R. G. Dean. Graduate Coordinator: A. J. Mehta. Graduate Research Professor: R. G. Dean. Professors: A. J. Mehta; M. K. Ochi; Y. P. Sheng; D. M. Sheppard; H. Wang. Associate Professor: D. M. Hanes. Assistant Professor: R. J. Thieke.
The Department offers the Master of Engineering, Master of Science, Engineer, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in coastal and oceanographic engineering.
Areas of specialization include coastal engineering, oceanographic engineering, and offshore structures. A number of other courses on related subjects, within and outside of the College of Engineering are available for graduate credit in this department.
EGM 5816--Intermediate Fluid Dynamics (4) Prereq: EGN 3353C, MAP 3302. Basic laws of fluid dynamics, introduction to potential flow, viscous flow, boundary layer theory, and turbulence.
EOC 5860--Port and Harbor Engineering (3) Prereq: EGN 3353C, MAP 3302 or equivalent. Principles of port design; wave penetration; harbor oscillations; sediment movement and pollutant mixing; port structures, port operations; case studies.
EOC 6196--Littoral Processes (3) Prereq: OCP 6165. Shoreline developments; nearshore hydrodynamics; sediment transport phenomena by waves and wind; methods of determining littoral transport quantities; effects of groins, jetties, and other coastal structures on littoral processes.
EOC 6425--Hydrodynamics of Coastal and Ocean Structures (3) Prereq: STA 5855. Wave loads on fixed structures; forces on a pile due to regular and irregular waves, forces on marine structures. Wave loads on floating structures; inertia, damping and hydrostatic forces, equation of motions in regular waves, evaluation of loads in random seas.
EOC 6430--Coastal Structures (3) Prereq: OCP 6165. Planning and design for beach nourishment, breakwaters, jetties, seawalls and coastal protection structures.
EOC 6431--Offshore Structures (3) Prereq: OCP 6165. Design and analysis of fixed offshore steel structures including force computations, foundation design, stress and deformation, member design, and structural response.
EOC 6850--Numerical Simulation Techniques in Coastal and Ocean Engineering (3) Numerical treatment of problems in ordinary and partial differential equations with application to incompressible geophysical fluid flows.
EOC 6905--Individual Study in Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering (1-4; max: 8)
EOC 6932--Selected Field and Laboratory Problems (3) Prereq: EGN 3353C, MAP 3302 or equivalent. Field and/or laboratory investigations employing modern research techniques and instrumentation.
EOC 6934--Advanced Topics in Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering (1-6; max: 9) Waves; wave-structure interaction; coastal structures; ocean structures; sediment transport; instrumentation; advanced data analysis techniques.
EOC 6939--Graduate Seminar (1; max: 6) Guest lecturers; lectures by COE faculty and students. S/U.
EOC 6971--Research for Master's Thesis (1-15) S/U.
EOC 6972--Research for Engineer's Thesis (1-15) S/U.
EOC 7979--Advanced Research (1-12) Research for doctoral students before admission to candidacy. Designed for students with a master's degree in the field of study or for students who have been accepted for a doctoral program. Not open to students who have been admitted to candidacy. S/U.
EOC 7980--Research for Doctoral Dissertation (1-15) S/U.
OCP 5293--Coastal Processes (3) Prereq: EGN 3353C, MAP 3302 or equivalent. Coastal wave and water level fluctuations, littoral transport; tidal inlet dynamics, estuarine hydrodynamics, and sediment transport; techniques of measurements.
OCP 6050--Physical Oceanography (3) Prereq: MAP 3302, EGN 3353C. Structure of ocean basins; physical and chemical properties of sea water; basic physical laws used in oceanography; ocean current; thermohaline effects; numerical models; heat budget.
OCP 6165--Ocean Waves I: Linear Theory (3) Prereq: MAP 3302, EGN 3353C. Ocean wave classification, solution of the linearized boundary value problem; simple harmonic waves; shoaling effects; internal waves.
OCP 6165L--Ocean Waves Laboratory (1) Laboratory for linear wave theory. Basic measurement techniques and properties of water waves.
OCP 6167--Ocean Waves II: Nonlinear Theory (3) Prereq: OCP 6165. Perturbation development of nonlinear water wave theories; regions of validity of various theories; dynamics and kinematics of nonlinear wave trains composed of single and multiple fundamental components.
OCP 6168--Data Analysis Techniques for Coastal and Ocean Engineers (3) Data editing, fundamentals of spectral analysis, subsurface and surface signal analysis, directional spectral analysis.
OCP 6169--Random Sea Analysis (3) Prereq: STA 5855, OCP 6165. Mathematical presentation of random seas; wave spectral analysis, spectral formulations; joint prediction of wave height and period, directionality of random seas, bispectral analysis; principle of hindcasting and forecasting seas.
OCP 6256--Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (3) Prereq: EGM 5816, OCP 6050. Fundamental equations of motion for a rotating ocean, behavior of a stratified ocean, thermohaline circulation, shelf waves, turbulence theory, oceanic turbulence, and boundary layers.
OCP 6295--Estuarine and Shelf Hydrodynamics I (3) Prereq: OCP 6050. Kinematics and dynamics of estuaries, small scale motions, tidal hydrodynamics, nontidal circulations, shelf waves, estuary and shelf interactions, mathematical models.
OCP 6296--Estuarine and Shelf Hydrodynamics II (3) Prereq: OCP 6050. Statistical theory of turbulence, turbulent diffusion in estuaries and oceans, effects of density stratification, turbulent boundary layers, dispersion of contaminants.
OCP 6297--Coastal Cohesive Sediment Transport (3) Clay properties including cohesion and flocculation mechanisms; sediment settling velocity, deposition, and erosion processes; bed properties including consolidation and rheology; behavior and transport of fluid mud; wave-mud interactions; particle-bound contaminant transport; sedimentation issues; measurement strategies.
OCP 6655--Coastal Sediment Transport Processes (3) Prereq: CWR 6236, OCP 6165. Physical sedimentation processes, including boundary layer hydrodynamics, suspended sediment dynamics, and bedload mechanics under wave and current conditions.
STA 5855--Stochastic Processes for Coastal and Ocean Engineers (3) Prereq: undergraduate calculus. Principles of spectral analysis; cross-spectral analysis; linear-system; threshold crossing and prediction of period; prediction of random amplitudes; prediction of extreme values and its application to coastal and ocean engineering problems.
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