OCEAN ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| Sept 9 | Dr. George Z. Forristall, Shell E&P Technology, Houston, Texas | Wave Crest Distributions Observations and Second Order Theory |
| Sept 16 | Dr. Billy L. Edge, Coastal & Ocean Engineering Division, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas | The Future of Beaches |
| Sept 23 | Mr. John Walpert, Senior Marine Instrumentation Specialist, Texas A&M University, GERC | TABS Suoy System |
| Sept 30 | Dr. Wei Ma, American Bureau of Shipping, Houston, Texas | On the Design and Installation of an Innovative Deepwater Taut-Leg Mooring System |
| Oct 7 | Dr. Jun Zhang, Coastal & Ocean Engineering Division, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas | Nonlinear Wave-Wave Interactions and their Application to Coastal & Ocean Engineering |
| Oct 14 | Jim Millan, Institute for Marine Dynamics, National Research Council of Canada, St. John's, Newfoundland | Development of Dynamic Positioning Model Test Capability |
| Oct 21 | Dr. Arun Duggal, Senior Research Engineer, Research and Development Department, FMC SOFEC, Houston, Texas | An Introduction to FPSO's |
| Oct 28 | Mr. Armin Tavassoli, Graduate Student, Coastal & Ocean Engineering Division, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas | Flow Simulation Along a Circular Cylinder |
| Nov 4 | Mr. Dave Wisch, P.E., Texaco Fellow, Upstream Technology, Engineering & Construction Management, Texaco, Houston, Texas 77402 | Engineering: Numbers, Equations, Simplicity? |
| Nov 11 | Mr. Michael J. Briggs, Research Hydraulic Engineer, Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199 | A Comparison of Hydrodynamic Parameters for a Floating Breakwater |
| Nov 18 | Mr. Orville T. Magoon, President, Coastal Zone Foundation, Middletown, California | The Future of Sand Rights |
| Nov 25 | Thanksgiving Vacation | |
| Dec 2 | Dr. Dave Brooks, Associate Dean, Dean of Geosciences, Oceanography Department, Texas A&M University | A Model Study of the Kara Sea in the Arctic |
| Dec 9 | Reading Day |