UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
OVERVIEW

• OE Program Mission Statement
• Undergraduate Program Goals, Objectives
  and Expected Outcomes

      The Department of Ocean Engineering provides a comprehensive, practical curriculum in science, engineering and design that prepares a student to perform engineering tasks in the ocean environment. Today's ocean technology calls for a sophisticated approach to engineering design, from concept to completion. Undergraduate students experience the rigor of classroom teaching and a hands-on approach to acquiring laboratory and computational skills. Graduates of this ABET-accredited program are prepared for professional positions in industry and government or undertake graduate studies in Engineering

      A dual campus program is offered whereby the students undertake their studies up to the junior year on the main Boca Raton Campus and spend their senior year at SeaTech on the Dania Beach Campus.

      At the lower-division level, the program requires a firm foundation in English composition and grammar, mathematics, chemistry, and physics, plus courses in the social sciences, arts, and humanities to give the student a balanced educational background for the engineering profession.

      At the upper-division level, the Ocean Engineering program includes integrated courses and a two-semester capstone senior design project, encompassing the basic engineering sciences, mathematics and engineering design. The courses include the study of the ocean environment and its relationship to other sciences and engineering; processing of ocean engineering data; the engineering design of components and systems for use in the ocean; and the application of these elements to the solution of engineering problems connected with work in or on the ocean and in developing the resources of the oceans.

      Emphasis is placed on the solution of engineering problems related to the marine environment in such areas as underwater acoustics, marine vehicles, environmental engineering, fluid mechanics, structures, electronics and materials. An optional Cooperative WorkStudy program that provides practical experience in industry or government laboratories is available to students who qualify.

      As part of the Fundamentals of Engineering course and the Capstone Senior Design sequence, students learn leadership skills, gain societal awareness and an understanding of engineering ethics through a range of formal classroom and invited lectures and through practice involving teamwork in developing their design projects.

      Academic advising is recognized as fundamental to the educational development of students and as a natural extension to teaching, and students are urged to take full advantage of the help and information the Advisor can offer.

      It is a Department of Ocean Engineering requirement that every student, including incoming freshmen, meet with the Departmental Undergraduate Studies Advisor every semester prior to registering for classes.