Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Tech Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W. Whalin PE, Jackson State University; Qing Pang, Jackson State University

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Ocean and Marine

transport and portand harbor research challenges. The first Oceanographical Engineering text and reference bookwas authored by Robert L. Weigel, UC Berkeley in 1964.[1] MIT had preeminenthydrodynamic laboratory facilities in the 50’s and 60’s where Profs. Ippen and Eaglesonproduced numerous PhD's who were instrumental in leading national coastal and oceanengineering research and education for the next three or four decades. The classic text Estuaryand Coastline Hydrodynamics, published in 1966 was edited by Arthur T. Ippen, Ford Professorof Engineering, Director of Hydrodynamics Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering,MIT.[2]Publications in Proceedings of the International Conference on Coastal Engineering(ICCE) The authors hypothesized

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Tech Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.)

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Ocean and Marine

monitoring issues, as well as hands- on demonstration of system prototyping. 1. IntroductionMonitoring of the marine environment has come to be a field of scientific interest in the last ten Page 23.101.2years. The instruments used in this work have ranged from small-scale sensor networks tocomplex observation systems. Among small-scale networks, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)are a highly attractive solution in that they are easy to deploy, operate and dismantle and arerelatively inexpensive. The aim of this paper is to identify, appraise, select and synthesize allhigh quality research evidence relevant to the use of WSNs in oceanographic

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Tech Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lifford McLauchlan, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Jayson Durham, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific)

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Ocean and Marine

vehicles, the use of modeling and simulation capabilities becomes moreimportant for university programs. Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle (AUV) Workbench wasdeveloped at the Naval Postgraduate School as a modeling and simulation environment to enablephysics based real time simulation of autonomous vehicles, such as unmanned surface vehicles(USV), unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Vehiclemissions can also be replayed for further study. 1-5At Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, a lab exercisefor multiple vehicles has been created for the students to illustrate waypoint navigation andcontrol for unmanned surface and air vehicles. Two versions were developed, an