Ocean engineering

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Ocean engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the design, analysis and operation of systems that operate in an oceanic environment.

1 Work of ocean engineers
2 Renewable ocean energy
3 Leading institutions
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Work of ocean engineers

The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers describes the work of ocean engineers as follows:

Ocean engineers study the ocean environment to determine its effects on ships and other marine vehicles and structures. Ocean engineers may design and operate stationary ocean platforms, or manned or remote-operated sub-surface vehicles used for deep sea exploration. [1]

[edit] Renewable ocean energy

The ocean environment presents a vast quantity of renewable sources of energy in the form of winds, waves, tides, currents and the density and thermal gradients between ocean water layers.

[edit] Leading institutions

Department of Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
Center for Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Department of Ocean Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
Department of Maritime Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA
Department of Ocean Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Department of Ocean Engineering and Naval Arch, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Department of Ocean Engineering, Univerisity of Michigan, Michigan, USA
Scripps Oceanographic Insitute, USA
Department of Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Department of Maritime Transport and Engineering, Australian Maritime College, Tasmania, Australia
Department of Ocean Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, USA