UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Ocean Engineering Diving
(EOC 2131) 1 credit (Not a required course)
Prerequisite: Nationally Recognized Dive Certification and Permission of Instructor
This course averages one lecture and one four-hour dive per week. Lectures cover scientific diving techniques. Field work provides students with hands-on experience in conducting underwater scientific experiments.

Fabrication of Ocean Engineering Systems
(EOC 2801) 1 credit (Not a required course)

A laboratory course directed to acquainting ocean engineering students with the basic machinery and machining processes used to fabricate parts of engineering systems for use in an ocean environment.

Professional Development for Ocean Engineers
(EOC 2902) 1 credit (Not a required course)

A study of professionalism as it relates to ocean engineering with the following topics: written and oral business communications and processes, company organization and operations, management of resources, and professional ethics.

Statics and Buoyancy
(EOC 3105) 4 credits
Prerequisites: MAC 2313; PHY 2048, 2048L
Co-requisite: EGS 1111
Analysis of force and moment systems for static equilibrium of trusses, frames, beams, cables, and machines; friction forces and friction machines; hydrostatic forces; first and second area and mass moments and centers of gravity; potential energy and virtual work, buoyancy and floating stability including metacentric height concepts.

Dynamics
(EOC 3113) 3 credits
Prerequisite: EOC 3105 (with a grade of "C" or better)
Dynamic analysis of particles, kinematics, kinetics and relative motion. Kinematics of rigid bodies, plane motion and general motion. Note: A grade of "C" or better is required for the major.

Vibrations
(EOC 3114) 3 credits
Prerequisites: EOC 3113 (with a grade of "C" or better), MAP 2302, and EOC 3150
Free and forced vibrations of single and multi-degree of freedom systems, harmonic, periodic, and shock excitation, impedance concepts, motion sensors, vibration criteria, and simple continuous systems, simple buoys and ocean applications. Design credit. Note: A grade of "C" or better is required for the major.

Fluid Mechanics I
(EOC 3123) 3 credits
Prerequisites: EOC 3113 and EOC 3141 (each with a grade of "C" or better), COP 2212 and MAP 4306 (with a grade of "C" or better)
The first course of a two-semester study of incompressiblefluid flow and its application to ocean engineering with emphasis on fluid properties, fluid dynamics, dimensional analysis, modeling, real flows in closed conduits and open channels, boundary-layers, lift and drag, turbo-machines, computational and experimental methods, resistance and propulsion of marine vehicles, and design problems.

Ocean Engineering Laboratory
(EOC 3130) 3 credits
Prerequisite: CHM 2045, 2045L; PHY 2049, 2049L; MAC 2313; Programming in "C" (effective Spring 1999).
Introduction to engineering laboratory methods and techniques with experiences in measurements, experiment planning, data recording, and laboratory report preparation. Five major lab experiences, including one or more at sea, are included.

Engineering Thermodynamics
(EOC 3141) 3 credits
Prerequisite: MAC 2313; CHM 2045, 2045L; PHY 2049
Definitions, properties, state of pure substance, macroscopic thermodynamic processes, systems and cycles, work and heat, first and second laws, entropy, availability, irreversibility, efficiency. Applications of concepts to ideal gases, gas and vapor mixtures, vapor and gas cycles. Problems for ocean engineering are stressed. Note: A grade of "C" or better is required for the major.

Strength of Materials
(EOC 3150) 3 credits
Prerequisite: EOC 3105 (with a grade of "C" or better), EOC 3130.
Mechanical properties of Engineering Materials; analysis of stress and strain, shear, bending moment and torsional moment; deformation of elastic material; stability of column and thin shell. Design credit.

Engineering Materials I
(EOC 3200) 3 credits
Prerequisites: EOC 3141 (with a grade of "C" or better)
Co-requisite: EOC 3150 or equivalent
Structure of material systems from the atomic, micro and macroscopic standpoints. Equilibrium and non-equilibrium macroscopic structures. Relationship between structure and electrical, thermal, mechanical and failure properties of materials. Phase diagrams and reaction rate theory for materials. Strengthening mechanisms in materials. Design credit.

Acoustics I
(EOC 3306) 3 credits
Prerequisites: EOC 3113 (with a grade of "C" or better), EEL 3004 or EEL 3111, MAP 4306.
Fundamentals of acoustics. Sound propagation in fluids; speech, hearing, noise, architectural acoustics, loudspeakers, microphones, transducers, underwater sound transmission. Design credit.

Structural Analysis I
(EOC 3410) 3 credits
Prerequisite: EOC 3150
Classical methods of analysis of beams, trusses, frames, cables, and arches for ocean and other structural applications. Approximate methods, moment area, virtual work, consistent deformations. Design credit.

Ocean and Environmental Data Analysis
(EOC 3631) 3 credits
Prerequisites: EOC 3130, MAP 4306
Fourier transform applications to the processing of ocean engineering related types of signals. Time and frequency domain analysis of signals. Digital processing techniques. Laboratory work involving analysis of actual ocean engineering related signals using data acquisition systems such as the H.P. Fourier Analyzer. Design credit.

Acoustics II
(EOC 4115) 3 credits
Prerequisite: EOC 3306
Free and forced multi Degree of Freedom systems and continuous systems analysis for the determination of natural frequencies, mode shapes and impedance response. Vibration control methods through damping and isolation. Acoustic wave propagation in 1-D space, 3-D space and in enclosed spaces, including acoustic filters and resonators. Transmission of acoustic waves through partitions. Human response to sound. Lectures and laboratories coordinated.

Fluid Mechanics II
(EOC 4124) 3 credits
Prerequisites: EOC 3123, EOC 4422.
The second course of a two-semester study of incompressiblefluid flow and its application to ocean engineering with emphasis on fluid properties, fluid dynamics, dimensional analysis, modeling, real flows in closed conduits and open channels, boundary-layers, lift and drag, turbo-machines, computational and experimental methods, resistance and propulsion of marine vehicles, and design problems.

Ocean Thermal Systems
(EOC 4193) 3 credits
Prerequisite: EOC 3123
Basic concepts of heat and mass transfer concepts with application to the ocean and ocean systems. Applications will include power cycles and heat exchangers in ocean systems. The interactive environmental processes involving solar radiation, convective ocean circulation, evaporation and mixtures will be considered. Design credit.

Engineering Materials II
(EOC 4240) 3 credits
Prerequisite: EOC 3200
Materials selection for marine applications. Atmospheric and submerged marine corrosion. Corrosion prevention and fracture and failure analysis. Materials and devices for energy storage, primary/secondary batteries, fuel cells and electrochemical capacitors. Composite materials, strengthening mechanisms. Design credit.

Structural Analysis II
(EOC 4412) 3 credits
Prerequisite: EOC 4410
Classical and matrix methods of structural analysis and their applications to ocean structures and civil structures. Introduction to second order analysis and stability analysis. Design credit.

Ocean Wave Mechanics
(EOC 4422) 3 credits
Prerequisites: EOC 3114, 3123.
Small amplitude wave theory, finite amplitude waves, wave generation, wave forecasting, wave measurements. Wave force on fixed structures, floating bodies and moored bodies. Design credit.

Real Time Ocean Systems
(EOC 4422) 3 credits
Prerequisites: EEL 3341 and COP 2212
C language. Object-oriented programming. Compilers. Software design, real time kernels, intertask communication, memory management, system performance, microprocessors, buses, interfaces I/O. PC hardware modems, LANS, data acquisition. Each student will code a real time ocean system. Design credit.

Dynamic Systems
(EOC 4620) 3 credits
Prerequisite: EOC 3114
Intro to classical and modern control theory; systems identification and modeling; systems stability analysis; practical control implementation issues for sampled data ocean systems. Design credit.

Ocean Engineering Systems Control & Design
(EOC 4804) 3 credits
Prerequisites: All 3000 level engineering courses required by department, and EGS 1111, EOC 4410, EOC 4631.
Ocean engineering design, creativity and professionalism. Ocean systems design, simulation and control. Dynamic modeling, system tradeoffs and system evaluation. Feasiblity, preliminary and final design for project to be completed in EOC 4808L. Design credit.

Ocean Engineering Systems Control and Design Project
(EOC 4804L) 3 credits
Prerequisite: EOC 4804
Completion and execution of the system design project developed in previous EOC 4804 including detail design, final design, fabrication, testing, evaluation, and reporting of results in written and oral form. Design credit.

Oceanography
(OCG 3002) 3 credits
Prerequisite: CHM 2045
Nature of sea water; trace and major constituents; the ocean carbon, phosphorus, and nitrogen cycles; basins, continental shelf, deep ocean floor; thermal vents, manganese nodules, marine sediment; marine life; plate tectonics; estuaries and mixing processes; pollution; corrosion and biofouling; winds, waves, tides, currents and ocean circulation processes; energy (heat, light, sound); depth, temperature, salinity, and other physical effects.

Introduction to Oceanography
(OCE 2001) 3 or 4 credits (with Lab)
Note: Engineering majors may not offer this course for credit.
A survey course exploring the origin of ocean basins, continents, sea water; physical, chemical, biological, geological and meteorological oceanography. Introduction to Florida oceanography and ocean engineering.

Directed Independent Study
(EOC 4905) 1-3 credits
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor

Special Topics
(EOC 4930) 1-3 credits
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
New developments in Ocean Engineering and related areas.

Cooperative Education- Ocean Engineering I & II
(EOC 4949) 1-3 credits
Prerequisite: Successful completion of one semester of upper level Ocean Engineering curriculum.
Cooperative work-study with ocean oriented organizations for ocean engineering students who have completed at least one full semester of upper level Ocean Engineering. On-the-job training and instruction. S/U grading. May be repeated once for credit.