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Prereq: 2.001; 2.003J; 2.005 or 2.016. Senior standing or permission of instructor also required.
Units: 3-3-6

Complete cycle of designing an ocean system using computational design tools for the conceptual and preliminary design stages. Team projects assigned, with each student responsible for a specific subsystem. Lectures cover hydrodynamics; structures; power and thermal aspects of ocean vehicles, environment, materials, and construction for ocean use; generation and evaluation of design alternatives. Focus on innovative design concepts chosen from high-speed ships, submersibles, autonomous vehicles, and floating and submerged deep-water offshore platforms. Lectures on ethics in engineering practice included. Instruction and practice in oral and written communication provided.

C. Chryssostomidis, M. S. Triantafyllou

Materials from this class are available on OpenCourseWare.