The undergraduate certificate in Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering is designed to give undergraduate students the opportunity to document their educational achievement at the interface of engineering and marine science. The program will be open to all UGA undergraduate students but will be of special interest to students who wish to combine both a theoretical and practical understanding of marine science and engineering systems. The Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering certificate is interdisciplinary and is focused on the use of engineering principles in the marine environment rather than by the topic of study (e.g., physical oceanography, marine biology, chemical oceanography, or marine geology).

This UGA program has three tracks: (1) Marine Instrumentation, (2) Coastal and Near-Shore Modeling, and (3) Engineering in the Coastal Environment. The Marine Instrumentation track emphasizes the design of operational and research instruments for use in the marine environment. The Coastal and Near-Shore Modeling track seeks to understand and thus predict coastal and near-shore processes that impact both natural and artificial coastal systems. The Engineering in the Coastal Environment track assists students in acquiring some of the basic knowledge and understanding that engineers working in the coastal environment need. The goal of the program is to develop undergraduate scholars with a theoretical and practical understanding of marine and engineering systems. Students successfully completing the requirements for this certificate are expected to have:

a) a fundamental understanding of marine and engineering systems. b) the necessary knowledge and skills to pursue graduate work or employment in marine sciences, marine instrumentation, or marine engineering, depending on their undergraduate major. c) the knowledge and motivation to continue lifelong learning in marine engineering.

Dr. David Emory Stooksbury destooks@uga.edu (706) 583–0156