Offshore engineering, better known as ocean engineering, often involves the design of offshore equipment for producing energy or locating oil and gas reserves at sea while improving safety, controlling costs and limiting pollution and waste. Other projects in the field include the creation of recreational structures, offshore transportation systems and fisheries. Ocean engineering, a sub-field of civil or mechanical engineering, paid a median annual salary of $81,180 in 2009, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Texas A&M University
The Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University offers programs in ocean engineering for undergraduate and graduate students. The bachelor's of science degree in ocean engineering includes general core education combined with courses such as design of offshore and coastal systems, underwater acoustics and ocean wave mechanics. The school requires undergraduate students take technical elective courses in engineering design, engineering-specific math and science and business topics. The master's curriculum teaches students advanced hydromechanics and mathematics to prepare graduates for research or work in the engineering field. Other topics include offshore structures, oceanography and environmental fluid mechanics. Students may pursue post-graduate studies with an ocean engineering focus in a 64-credit hour curriculum resulting in a Doctor of Philosophy or Doctor of Engineering.
Texas A&M University
Ocean Engineering Program
Coastal and Ocean Engineering Division
Department of Civil Engineering
3136 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3136
979-845-4515
oceaneng.civil.tamu.edu
The University of California at Berkeley
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley offers bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. programs in mechanical engineering accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) with a concentration in ocean engineering. Students learn concepts in marine structures, marine hydrodynamics and analysis of fixed and mobile marine structures. Undergraduate students pursuing a degree in another discipline may minor in ocean engineering. Graduate students work in the school's Computational Marine Mechanics Laboratory in the Naval Architecture Department and research ocean wave energy, positioning of offshore bases and floating airports, among other topics.
The University of California at Berkeley
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Mail Code 1740
6141 Etcheverry Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
510-642-1338
me.berkeley.edu
The University of Rhode Island
The College of Engineering at University of Rhode Island, the first school to establish an ABET-approved ocean engineering curriculum in 1966, provides bachelor's, to Ph.D. degrees, in the major. The college offers a five-year program which results in both bachelor's and master's degrees. The undergraduate curriculum features a rounded general engineering training that introduces ocean engineering topics from the freshman year, to prepare students for the master's program or the workforce upon graduation. Topics include sea floor mapping, coastal and near-shore modeling and marine geomechanics. The school offers more than 50 ocean engineering courses at the post-baccalaureate level.
The University of Rhode Island
Ocean Engineering
Sheets Building
Bay Campus
Narragansett, RI 02882
401-874-6139
oce.uri.edu
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