Ocean Engineering in the News

URI expert aided search for students. Ocean Engineering Professor Malcolm L. Spaulding specializes in predicting damage from oil spills, but he lent his skills to the search for three University of Rhode Island students last seen in a rowboat early Monday morning.

O.E. Professors Grilli and Moran featured in new U.R.I. brochure

Ocean Engineering researchers to create tsunami hazard maps for East Coast - Ocean Engineering Professors Stephan Grilli and Christopher Baxter receive research grant.

URI Ocean Engineering faculty and graduate student participate in Discovery Channel and BBC investigation of the seabed in the Indian Ocean to help predict future tsunamis.

Jeffrey C. Harris, an Ocean Engineering graduate student, has recently been awarded a "National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship". This is a prestigious fellowship administered by the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), and one of ways the Department of Defense supports graduate student research.

URI grad student awarded prestigious fellowship by Department of Defense.

Approximately 180 students nationwide are accepted in this program each year, at the beginning of their graduate work, to be funded for up to three years in the pursuit of a doctoral degree. He is the only student from the University of Rhode Island to be accepted this year.

Jeff is currently finishing the second year of his graduate work in ocean engineering, working under Dr. Stephan Grilli's supervision and focusing on numerical simulations of high speed surface effect ship performance. Specifically, he is working on a Numerical Wave Tank based on the boundary element method (BEM), to simulate wave resistance of the Harley Surface Effect Ship (SES). Jeff joined OCE in 2003, when he was barely 19 years old, have received two bachelor's degrees in mathematics and oceanography from the University of Washington. He is scheduled to complete his MS this summer and to continue working on his Ph.D.
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http://www.asee.org/resources/fellowships/ndseg/winners2005.cfm

Dr. Kate Moran selected to be recognized for Outstanding Research at the University of Rhode Island. Provost Swan states "This recognition is not only a reflection of your hard work, dedication and commitment to the community but enhances the University as well. Your research efforts have had an impact on the University and the State of Rhode Island. We appreciate your contributions and value you as a member of the URI community." A luncheon will be held at the University Club to honor outsdanding research, graduate studies, outreach and development of intellectual property at URI on May 11, 2005.

Ocean Engineering Department Professor Leads Expedition to the North Pole

National Geographic Article on North Pole Expedition

URI AUV Team brings home $2000 prize!

URI News Press Release regarding AUV Team

Explorer Dr. Robert Ballard returns to Titanic in June to assess state of the wreck. National Geographic Channel to originate television event from expedition. Read the complete URI News release

Titanic Discoverer Robert Ballard joins URI faculty.

Marine scientist and explorer Robert Ballard, who discovered the resting place of the Titanic and the German battleship Bismark has joined the faculty at the University of Rhode Island.

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