OCEAN ENGINEERING FACULTY

Department Chair and Director of SeaTech. Ph.D., Imperial College, University of London. Dr. Dhanak has research interests in hydrodynamics, including ocean turbulence, AUV flow measurement platforms, coherent vortex dynamics, flow noise, hydrodynamic stability, and ocean energy.

Professor. Ph.D., University of New Hampshire. Director, Advanced Marine Systems Laboratory. After working on the European Prometheus project at the University of Southampton, UK, Dr. Edgar An joined the Ocean Engineering Department at Florida Atlantic University in 1994, working his way up through the ranks to Professor in 2005. He has received the FAU Researcher of the Year Award twice. His areas of interest are autonomous underwater vehicles, navigation, control, robotics and automation, modeling and simulation, system architecture, and neuro-fuzzy systems, and his publications include more than seventy journal and conference papers in these research areas.

Associate Professor. Ph. D., University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Ananthakrishnan's research interests include wave-body interactions in inviscid and viscous fluids, ship hydrodynamics, air-sea interactions, ocean flows, and numerical methods for nonlinear free-surface and interface flows. He teaches courses in hydrodynamics, wave mechanics, physical oceanography, ship hydrodynamics, and fluid mechanics.

Assistant Professor. Ph.D. Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Beaujean's research interests include acoustical signal processing, underwater acoustics, sediment study, Chirp Sonar technology, unmanned underwater vehicles, acoustic communications and navigation systems.

Professor Emeritus. M.S., University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Davidson has research interests in underwater acoustics and acoustic arrays.

Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Victoria, Canada. Dr. Driscoll is a mechanical engineer with a background in physical oceanography. His research interests include the dynamics of cable vehicle/platform systems, offshore structures, dynamics and control, autonomous and remotely controlled vehicles, field data acquisition, signal processing and ocean energy.

Professor. Ph.D., with Distinction in Physics in 1975, from the Catholic University of America. Dr. Frisk comes to FAU from the Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering (AOPE) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research interests include acoustic propagation, reflection, and scattering in the ocean and seabed, acoustic surface waves, scattering theory of waves, computational physics, inverse methods, seismo-acoustic ambient noise, and Arctic acoustics.

Professor. Ph.D., University of Southampton, England. Dr. Glegg specializes in aeroacoustics, underwater sound propagation, and noise source location.

Professor. Ph.D., The American University. Dr. Granata specializes in electrochemical corrosion and protective polymeric materials. He has a broad perspective on corrosion science and technology through his experience with electrochemical corrosion mechanisms, surface modification by ion implantation, cathodic delamination mechanism, corrosion inhibition, food container life-predictions, corrosion mechanisms in electronics packaging, and protective mechanisms of polymeric coatings.

Professor. Ph.D., University of Florida, P.E. Director, Center for Marine Materials. Dr. Hartt is a specialist in marine materials and is internationally recognized for his research on corrosion and corrosion control of steel reinforced concrete structures in the marine environment and of offshore structures.

Professor. Ph.D., Washington State University. Dr. Jurewicz has research interest in fluid-particle interactions in turbulent flows but has also practical industrial experience with jet engines and the general areas of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics. Most recently, Dr. Jurewicz is developing technology-based instructional techniques for engineering and technical education and is utilizing them in his courses. Dr. Jurewicz teaches Statics and Dynamics and undergraduate courses in the thermal sciences.

Professor Emeritus. Ph.D., University of Rhode Island.
Dr. LeBlanc is an authority in the area of signal processing and ocean measurement systems and holds a number of patents for ocean measurement systems.

Professor. Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Mahfuz has research interests in computational methods in solid mechanics, finite element method, mechanics of composites, stability analysis, advanced composite materials and manufacturing, nanomaterials, and structural nanocomposites.

Professor Emeritus. Ph.D., Texas A&M. Dr. Mac is a marine geologist, diver and practicing field engineer with international recognition.

Adjunct Professor. Ph.D., Florida State University. Dr. Muza is a geological oceanographer specializing in paleoceanography and marine stratigraphy. His research interests are centered on past global climate and oceanographic changes interpreted from temporal variations in the lithologic, biologic, and chemical characteristics of marine sediments.

Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of South Florida. Dr. Presuel-Moreno's research interests include corrosion of reinforcing steel in concrete in marine environment, concrete durability, electrochemical evaluation methods, crevice corrosion (scaling laws), modeling of crevice stabilization on Ni-Cr-Mo alloys and other alloys. He specializes in electrochemical corrosion and corrosion prevention, and employs both laboratory testing and numerical modeling. He teaches courses in materials science and engineering, and corrosion.

Professor. Ph.D., University of Rhode Island, P.E. Dr. Schock specializes in underwater and bottom interacting acoustics, acoustical signal processing, and sonar system design. He is currently developing a multichannel subbottom profiler for imaging objects buried under the seabed and for measuring sediment properties.

Professor. Ph.D., Clemson University, P.E. Dr. Tennant is a mechanical engineer and specialist in fluid mechanics and heat transfer with current research interests in the areas of ocean thermal energy conversion and hydrodynamics of towed arrays. He is a diver with an interest in diving systems and teaches courses in fluid mechanics and heat transfer.

Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Stanford University. Dr. von Ellenrieder's research interests are in experimental fluid mechanics, unsteady hydro-/aero-dynamics, vortex flow and in flow visualization and measurement techniques, including particle image velocimetry (PIV) and holographic PIV.

Assistant Professor. Ph.D., National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Dr. Xiros combines a background of electrical and marine engineering in the development, design and implementation of control systems relevant to ocean engineering. In the past, he has worked in academia and industry with projects related to shipboard automation, controls, prognostics/diagnostics, signal processing, etc. His research interests include, among others, propulsion control and optimization, thrust allocation, route planning and dynamic positioning of surface vehicles, as well as modeling, system identification and control of ocean systems and processes.