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