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Location
Texas A&M University is the oldest public institution of higher learning in the state of Texas with an enrollment of approximately 43,000. Located on more than 5,000 acres in the university town of College Station, its main campus is within easy reach of the state's major cities: Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, and Fort Worth. Tuition, fees, and cost of living compare favorably with other major universities in the United States. The Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University has one of the largest student populations in the nation. Approximately 1,550 students are enrolled in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, including 360 graduate students. The Ocean Engineering Program has approximately 125 undergraduate students and 40 graduate students.
Program
Ocean engineering is the application of basic engineering principles to the analysis, design, construction, and management of systems that operate in the ocean environment. As such, ocean engineering is a hybrid technical area utilizing techniques from many branches of engineering.
Typical ocean engineering application areas include: beach protection and nourishment, coastal structures, coastal erosion, development of ocean energy resources, instrumentation for coastal and offshore measurements, marine dredging and dredged material placement, moored and towed systems, ocean mining, offshore petroleum recovery, offshore structures, ports and harbors, search and salvage, suspended and dissolved constituent transport, subsea pipelines and cables, submersible vehicles, and underwater acoustics.
Employment opportunities exist with private industry, defense contractors, consulting firms, and government agencies.
Ocean engineering students are encouraged to pursue summer internships and may participate in the university cooperative education program. The Curriculum leading to a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, Master of Engineering, and Doctor of Philosophy degree in Ocean Engineering is administered by the Coastal and Ocean Engineering Division of the Department of Civil Engineering and is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
Curriculum
The Ocean Engineering Curriculum includes courses in written communication skills, humanities, social sciences, and American heritage to ensure a well-rounded education. Courses that directly apply to ocean engineering include: coastal engineering, dynamics of ocean systems, engineering design of offshore and coastal systems, fluid mechanics, marine hydrodynamics, naval architecture, numerical methods, ocean engineering laboratory, ocean wave mechanics, oceanography, offshore and coastal structures, underwater acoustics, and underwater and moored system design. The Laboratory Facilities for the Ocean Engineering Program are among the most comprehensive in the nation for testing offshore and coastal systems. The facilities are located in the Reta and Bill Haynes '46 Coastal Engineering Laboratory, Offshore Technology Research Center, Civil Engineering Laboratory Building, and the Hydromechanics Laboratory.