• Major Goals– Educate top quality engineers to meet the

needs of Hawaii, the nation and the engineering profession.

– Conduct and disseminate research. – Provide service to the State of Hawaii, Pacific

Basin and engineering profession … seminars, conferences, consulting, work with government agencies and professional societies.

ORE Program Options• Coastal• Offshore• Resource• +

7 Faculty +1 hiringMSABET

ORE MS Program Requirements

• Pre-program classes if necessary• Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam

or General Exam in 1st semester• Core classes• Option and elective classes• Plan A thesis, Plan B report and oral final

exam

ORE PhD Program Requirements

• Pre-program classes• Core classes• Qualifying Exam (4 hr, covers core)• Comprehensive Exam (defend research

proposal)• Dissertation defense

• Expect several peer-reviewed publications

ORE Coursework Requirement

• Pre-program courses if necessary• The ORE graduate program, MS and PhD,

includes a core: – ORE 411 Buoyancy and Stability– ORE 601 Ocean Engineering Laboratory– ORE 603 Oceanography for Ocean Engineers– ORE 607 Water Wave Mechanics   – ORE 609 Hydrodynamics of Fluid-Body Interaction– ORE 792 Seminars

• PhD – Math and 3+ other electives

Typical MS timeline

Typical PhD timeline

ORE Students – Spring 2013• 32 students – 20 MS, 12 PhD• Support:

– 2 TAs– 18 RAs – NOAA, ONR, NSF, Defense, Energy,

Homeland Security, HI Civil, HI Transportation, SOEST, Trex

– Others – working, GI bill, part-time, etc• Time to finish: MS ~2-3 y; PhD ~6 y• Recent MS and PhD jobs

– MS: Makai, Brown and Caldwell, AECOM, ESA-PWA, Global PCCI JV, Navfac, Oceanic, Ocean Imaging, Navatek, PhD, …

– PhD: Post-docs, Asst prof, Oceanit, Aker Solutions, Houston Offshore, …

Recent student recognition and awards• PhD student Justin Stopa

– JGR article makes the news! Hurricane Sound Waves Could Aid Forecasting

– Atmospheric infrasound from nonlinear wave interactions during Hurricanes Felicia and Neki of 2009

• MS student Jerica Nolte– Two scholarships to study hydrodynamic forces of a WEC buoy– IEEE Oceanic Society ($2,000)– Society Graduate Scholarship of SNAME ($5,000)

• PhD Student, Masoud Hayatdavoodi:– Link Foundation Ocean Engineering Fellowship for ($25,000)– The largest, most prestigous student prize in ocean

engineering in the world.