What Civil Engineers Should be Studying - Part 2

If you plan on working around a coastal community or state, you might want to add a little ocean engineering from the Texas A&M Ocean Engineering Program:

OCEN 672. Coastal Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3. Effects of waves on coastal structures; design of seawall breakwaters, jetties, harbors, ship channels and pipelines; intentional and accidental discharge of pollutants; diffusion and spreading; oil spill containment and collection. Prerequisite: OCEN 671.

OCEN 674. Ports & Harbors. (3-0). Credit 3. Basic port planning including site selection, environmental factors, and economic considerations; design of wharves, quays, jetties, breakwaters and navigational channels and fenders; harbor sedimentation and maintenance dredging; design of fishing, small craft and recreation boat harbors. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.

OCEN 682. Coastal Sediment Processes. (3-0). Credit 3. Sediment properties and size distribution, fluvial sediment transport equations, movement of material by the sea, review of pertinent wave theories, littoral drift, inlet stability, coastal protection structures, similarity in sediment transport, movable bed models, sediment tracing, Aeolian sand transport, case studies. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.

OCEN 683. Estuary Hydrodynamics. (3-0). Credit 3. Development of applicable equations for tidal dynamics applied to real estuaries. Technology for determination of mean velocities, circulation patterns, water depths, turbulent dispersion patterns, etc. for solution of environmental problems in estuaries. Physical and mathematical models. Prerequisites: Basic fluid mechanics; approval of instructor.

CVEN 686. Offshore and Coastal Structures. (3-0). Credit 3. Fundamental design and analysis techniques; offshore platforms for shallow and deep water, pile driving analysis of large offshore piles by the wave equation; solutions to problems submitted by industry to the class during the semester. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.

CVEN 687. Foundation Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3. Settlement and bearing capacity analysis of foundations; computer programs used to analyze axially loaded piles, laterally loaded piles, and sheet-pile walls.

OCEAN 688. Marine Dredging. (3-0). Credit 3. Dredge pump selection; pump and system characteristics; cavitation; types of dredges; continental shelf and deep-ocean dredging; head loss in horizontal and vertical pipes for two- and three-phase flow; design of disposal methods for dredged material; environmental effects of dredging. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.