OCEN 681 Seminar

OCEAN ENGINEERING SEMINAR
FALL SEMESTER 1999
THURSDAY 3:55-4:45
CIVIL ENGINEERING BUILDING ROOM 118

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