Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering Graduate Course Descriptions
EGM 5816: Intermediate Fluid Dynamics (3) Prereq: EGN 3353C (or CWR 3201), MAP 2302. 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 (or CWR 3201), MAP 2302 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 6430: Coastal Structures (3) Prereq: OCP 6165. Planning and design for beach nourishment, breakwaters, jetties, seawalls and coastal protection structures.
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 (or CWR 3201), MAP 2302 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; turbulent flow and its applications.
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 appropriate for 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 (or CWR 3201), MAP 2302 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 2302, EGN 3353C (or CWR 3201). 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 2302, EGN 3353C (or CWR 3201). 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: 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; principles of hindcasting and forecasting seas.
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 6297: Coastal and Estuarine Sediment Transport (3) Sediment properties including size, mineralogy and plasticity, cohesion and flocculation; settling velocity and initiation of motion; coarse and fine sediment transport; wave-sediment interaction; fluid mud rheology and transport; consolidation; sedimentation in estuaries and at coasts.
OCP 6364: Engineering Water Wave Models (3) Prereq: OCP 6165. Theory and practical aspects of spectral, diffractive, and Boussinesq water wave models.
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.