text: Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering « UGA Graduate School
  The course-work component of this certificate involves course-work in system simulation, computational mathematics, physical oceanography, estuaries and coastal oceanography, ocean waves and ocean mixing process. Design is the heart of the practice of engineering and is what separates it from other disciplines, a graduate engineering design project associated with the engineering and marine sciences is required for this certificate. The research component is satisfied by a coastal and oceanographic engineering element as part of the student's thesis or dissertation. Because this is an interdisciplinary program the student must include at least one graduate faculty member from the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and the Department of Marine Sciences on their graduate committee.
  Undergraduate preparation required for admission to the graduate certificate program in coastal and oceanographic engineering involves: field methods or internship in marine sciences or engineering, applied geophysics, fluid dynamics, coastal meteorology and systems modeling. The certificate in coastal and oceanographic engineering is co-directed by the graduate coordinators from the Department of Marine Sciences and the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering.