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EducationEducation ProgramHarbor, Coastal and Offshore Engineering

    Harbor, Coastal and Offshore Engineering is developed from the research center of water conservancy project which was established in 1985. It was authorized to be the master station by the academic degrees committee of the State Council in 2000. In 1988, naval architecture and ocean engineering structure mechanics and hydrodynamics were chosen as two key specialties of national institution of higher education. Its first grade specialty has already set up the center for post-doctoral studies. It is one of the specialties which have been laid stress upon by the "211 Projects" of our school.

  The specialty is engaged in offshore structure design and the experimental study on the movement mechanism of offshore structure and harbor waterways and coast engineering. Its main research field is as follows: Design and research of the developing platform of sea oil and offshore engineering structure that are suitable for different sea areas; Coastal estuary dynamics; Coastal estuary evolution, dredging and planning of harbor waterways, and environmental protection of coastal estuary; harbor waterways engineering, shallows, innings and wave- preventing buildings; Economic management of the coastal engineering. Some research results have already reached the world level.

   The specialty enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad for its great numbers of teachers, advanced and completes equipment, distinguished research results, and its outstanding teaching quality. There are three professors, four associate professors and three lecturers at present. There are also a national key laboratory of ocean engineering, an experimental centre (teaching and scientific research base) of deep waterways of the entrance of Changjiang River, wind wave flumes, and a CAD computer center.

  I. Training Objectives
  The degree achievers should possess the solid basic theory and systematical specialized knowledge. They have the ability of practical research, theoretical analysis and computer technology. They can correlate relevant practical problems in their study to make scientific research or to take charge of the technological engineering work, and achieve innovative research results. They also grasp a foreign language comparatively skillfully.

  II. Research Directions
  1. Offshore structure design and the experimental study of its movement mechanism
  2. Harbor waterways and coastal engineering
  3. Numerical simulator study of estuarine and coastal dynamics

  III. Length of Schooling and Credits
  The full-time Master degree candidates’ length of schooling is 2. 5 years. The total credits must get requested 32 credits at least; among them the credits of degree lessons must get requested 19. Semi-sabbatical master degree candidates’ period of schooling can be prolonged for another half a year or one year as approved.

  IV. Courses Offered

Classification No. Name of Courses Credit Time Remarks
Degree G090501 Introduction to Natural Dialectics 2.0 autumn Compulsory courses
Degree G090503 Theory and Practice of Scientific Socialism 1.0 spring Compulsory courses
Degree G140501 Basic English 3.0 spring and autumn Compulsory courses
Degree G140503 Professional English 1.0 spring Compulsory courses
Degree G071507 Physics and mathematics equations 3.0 autumn  
Degree X010506 Marine dynamics 2.0 autumn  
Degree X010507 Estuarine and coastal dynamics 2.0 autumn  
Degree X010508 Mathematics models 3.0 autumn  
Degree X010509 Software design and application 3.0 spring  
Degree X010510 Design principle of offshore structure 2.0 spring  
Degree X010511 Structure calculation and optimize Theory 2.0 autumn  
Non-degree F010516 Interaction of wave and coastal buildings 2.0 autumn  
Non-degree F010517 Advanced hydrodynamics 2.0 spring  
Non-degree F010518 Computing hydrodynamics 2.0 autumn  
Non-degree F010519 Fictitious design of structure in harbor construction engineering 2.0 autumn  
Non-degree F010520 Harbor waterways design, navigation simulation and visuality 2.0 autumn  
Non-degree F010521 Shipping operation and control at the harbor 2.0 spring  
Non-degree F010522 Random theory of offshore structure movement 2.0 autumn  
Non-degree F010523 data processing in coastal engineering 3.0 spring  
Non-degree F010524 Computer system and interface 2.0 autumn  
Non-degree S010501 Symposium 2.0 spring and autumn Compulsory courses


  V. Middle Examinations
   Master degree candidates are supposed to have an all-round exam once a month in the fourth term to check whether their credits and grades in course study meet demands, by which to determine whether they can enter the stage of the academic dissertation. Its details refer to the relevant regulations of the graduates’ institution.

  VI. Opening Report
  The opening report of master degree candidates should be finished before the end of the third terms (at the latest the fourth term after in months). The reading amount of documents is no less than twenty.

  VII. Academic Dissertation
  The details of academic dissertation refer to the relevant regulations of the university.

  VIII. Thesis Publishing
  Refers to “Requirement for graduate students of publishing scientific paper during learning at Shanghai Jiaotong University ".