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The Department of Ocean Engineering was launched in fall 2015 bringing together the world-class infrastructure and resources of the very large engineering campus at College Station with the strategic waterfront location and unique resources at Galveston.

Statistics

Students

Enrollment (Fall 2015)
Ph.D. 33
M.S. 24
M.Eng. 16
B.S. (OCEN) 111*
B.S. (OCSE) 220
Total 404

*Freshman not included

Faculty

Professors: 4

Associate Professors: 2

Assistant Professors: 3

Lecturers (Part-time): 4

Research Professor (Part-time): 1

Joint Faculty Appointments: 2

Endowed Professorship Holders: 3

Visiting Assistant Professor: 1

Affiliated: 1

 Areas of Study

  • Dynamics of offshore structures subject to irregular waves and winds
  • Tsunami modeling
  • Analysis and design of deep water and coastal structures
  • Bridge scour
  • Coastal zone management
  • Dredging technology
  • Floating breakwaters
  • Internal waves
  • Multiphase flow and direct ocean carbon sequestration
  • Offshore structures
  • Sediment dynamics
  • Tsunami propagation and run-up
  • Mooring and riser systems
  • Coastal sediment processes
  • Dredged material placement
  • Beach nourishment
  • Coastal engineering processes
  • Computational ship and submarine hydrodynamics
  • Environmental fluid mechanics
  • Hydroelasticity
  • Laboratory measurement and analysis techniques
  • Non-linear wave/structure/wake interactions
  • Remote sensing of ocean surface
  • Shallow flows
  • Turbulence modeling
  • Unsteady three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations
  • Wave breaking
  • Renewable ocean energy
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