Ocean Engineering Experiments and Oceanographic Measurements

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Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Applications of instrumentation and measurements through lectures during a ship-borne cruise with topics pertaining to ocean engineering including vessel/platform motions, remote operated vehicles/autonomous underwater vehicle operation, vortex induced vibrations , ocean current profiles, internal waves, geotechnical sampling, wind and meteorological data acquisition, bathythermograph measurements, conductivity/temperature/depth instrumentation, sidescan sonar and compressed high-Intensity radiated pulse, sub-bottom seismic profiling; familiarization with shipboard operations and ship-borne scientific data collection. Prerequisites: Undergraduate level courses including wave mechanics and one in fluid mechanics, or OCEN 671 and OCEN 678 .