OCEAN
ENGINEERING SEMINAR
SPRING 2002
THURSDAY 3:55-4:45
CIVIL ENGINEERING BUILDING ROOM 118
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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
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Jan 17 |
Dr. Billy Edge, Head of Coastal & Ocean Engineering Division, Civil Engineering Department, Texas A&M University |
Welcome to Ocean Engineering |
| Jan 24 | Dr. Yang Jianmin, Professor and Vice Dean, School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
Research on Ocean Structures |
| Jan 31 | Dr. Jun Zhang, Professor, Coastal & Ocean Engineering Division, Civil Engineering Department, Texas A&M University | Nonlinear Wave Interaction and Its Application to Wave Data Analysis |
| Feb 7 | Mr. Evan Zimmerman, Chief Engineer, and Mr. Derek Davis, Project Engineer, Delmar Systems, Houston, Texas | Installation of First Taut-Leg Mooring in the Gulf of Mexico |
| Feb 14 | Dr. Donald L. Ward, Research Hydraulic Engineer, Engineering Research & Development Center, Coastal & Hydraulics Lab., Coastal Harbors & Structures Branch, Coastal Structures Group, Vicksburg, Mississippi | Selection of the Design Wave for Coastal Projects |
| Feb 21 | Professor John Shanks, Head of the Riser Division, Intec Engineering, Houston, Texas | Introduction to Riser Engineering |
| Feb 28 | Mr. Sauvage, Senior Vice-President of Doris, Inc. | Deepwater Pipeline and Riser Design |
| March 7 | Oleg Esenkov, Research Engineer, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, Texas | Numerical Modeling of Ocean Circulation in Density Coordinates: Application to the Arabian Sea |
| March 14 | Spring Break |
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| March 21 | Dr. Rob Hetland, Assistant Professor, Oceanography Department, Texas A&M University |
Numerical modeling of river plumes in the ocean |
| March 28 | Dr. Michael J. Briggs, Research Hydraulic Engineer, Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory, US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS |
Design of Deep Draft Coastal Navigation Entrance Channels |
| April 4 | Orville Magoon, President, Coastal Zone Foundation | Are Coastlines Naturally or Anthoropogenically Sustainable |
| April 11 | Lesley Ewing, Chief Engineer, California Coastal Commission |
The Role of Engineering in Coastal Zone Management |
| April 18 | Dianna VanValkenburg, Graduate Student, Coastal & Ocean Engineering, Texas A&M University and Dr. Shigeru Kato, Kyoto University, Japan |
Analysis
of Proposed Flooding of Bahia Grande, Cameron County, Texas and Research at Disaster Prevention Research Center |
| April 25 | Dr. Steve DiMarco, Associate Research Scientist, Oceanography Department, Texas A&M University | High Speed Sub Surface Current Jets in the Northern Gulf of Mexico |