Teaching Labs
Micro Logic Lab, EE 203
Electronic Components Room, EE 205
Computer Lab I, EE 207
Senior Design Lab, EE 208
Controls Lab, EE 209
Electronics Lab, EE 210
Computer Lab II, EE 213
Communications and RF Lab, EE 508
Department of Ocean & Mechanical Engineering
Labs & Centers
Research
Research in Ocean Engineering
Ocean engineering research is typically involved with determining innovative solutions to challenging problems in working in the ocean environment. Faculty are involved in a range of federal and state sponsored projects including studies of seawater corrosion and marine materials, underwater acoustics, and acoustic imaging and communication, flow noise, autonomous marine vehicles and control, hydrodynamics and propulsion of marine vehicles, physical oceanography, fabrication of nano-materials, ocean energy technologies and machine monitoring. A significant amount of the research is in the area of naval engineering. An important traditional aspect of the department research has been the development of ocean technologies, including autonomous underwater and surface vehicles, air-deployable buoys, sonar systems, acoustic modems, and a spar platform. SeaTech, The Institute for Ocean and Systems Engineering, serves as a means to promote the transition of ocean technologies to industry.
Research in Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical engineering research involves design, manufacture and operation of thermal and mechanical systems. Mechanical systems research includes controls, robotics, mechatronics, fluid power and motion control as well as the dynamics and kinematics of machinery. Faculty are involved in several research areas including, composite materials, helicopter dynamics, robotics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer, combustion, manufacturing, solar energy, structural engineering, and mechanical vibrations. The department has particular strengths in the areas of composite materials, stochastic processes, fuel cell technology and finite element analysis.
Department Labs, Centers and The Institute
Advanced Marine Systems Lab
BioRobotics Lab
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Center for Marine Materials
Corrosion Lab
Nanocomposites and Structures Laboratory
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Affiliated Faculty
Pierre-Philippe Beaujean, Ph.D.
Chair, Professor
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Isaac E. Elishakoff, Ph.D.
Distinguished Research Professor
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Nurgun Erdol, Ph.D.
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Boca Raton Campus
George Frisk, Ph.D.
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Boca Raton Campus
Gopal Gaonkar, Ph.D.
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Boca Raton Campus
Hanqi Zhuang, Ph.D, M.S, B.S
Associate Dean and Professor
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The Center for Acoustics and Vibrations at 糖心Vlog specializes in the following areas of research:
- Underwater Acoustics
- Sonar Technology
- Structural Acoustics and Vibration
- Aeroacoustics and Hydroacoustics
Support for research in these areas is typically provided by the following agencies.
- National Science Foundation
- Office of Naval Research
- The Naval Surface Warfare Center
- Naval Underwater Systems Center
- Naval Research Laboratory and
- NASA.
The Center supports a number of graduate students and graduate degrees are offered at the Masters and Ph.D. level in ocean or mechanical engineering with specialization in acoustics and vibrations.
Research Areas Overview
Aero- and Hydro- Acoustics
The CAV has an ongoing program on aero- and hydro- acoustics that has attracted sponsored research from NASA, ONR, FDOT, FFWC and industry for over 25 years. Most of the work has been in collaboration with other universities including Virginia Tech, Southampton University, UK, University of Notre Dame, Cambridge University, UK and recently Lehigh University. Projects include work on the design of aircraft engines for reduced noise, and fundamental studies on sound generation by flow.
Photo courtesy of Justin Jaworski, Lehigh University and Ian Clark, Virginia Tech.
Silent Flight of Owls
Investigative research has identified owl's feathers as being covered in a textured surface that has similarities to a field of wheat or a forest canopy. Theoretical work at 糖心Vlog suggests that the textured surface of the feather can cause a 30 decibel reduction in surface pressure fluctuations at high frequencies and this may be linked to the exceptionally quiet flight of the owl. The reduced surface pressure has been verified by wind tunnel measurements made at Virginia Tech in the Center for Renewable Energy and Aerodynamic Testing (CREATe).
Collaboration with: Lehigh University, Cambridge University and Virginia Tech. Sponsored by: the Office of Naval Research.
糖心Vlog Dual Purpose Acoustic Modem
Three undergraduate students and a graduate student testing an 糖心Vlog Dual Purpose Acoustic Modem off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Underwater Acoustics and Structural Vibrations
The CAV has major programs in underwater acoustics with projects in the following areas:
- sonar and signal processing
- acoustic inversion
- acoustic communications
- structural vibrations applied in particular to subsea machine fatigue.
Hermes
Hermes is a high-frequency underwater acoustic modem capable of very high bit rates in challenging acoustic environments. This technology is now licensed to an industrial partner, Edgetech.
Collaboration with: MIT, University of Michigan, SPAWAR, BlueFin Robotics, Woods Hole Oceanograhic Institution of Oceanography, NSWC, Edgetech and HBOI.
Sponsored by: ONR, NSWC, Office of Explosive Ordinance Disposal, NSF, SERDC, the NATO Undersea Research Centre, Edgetech and SNMREC.
Rapidly Deployable, Recoverable, and Reusable (RDRR) Gateway Buoys
Freely drifting buoys equipped with hydrophones, GPS navigation, and radio telemetry are used to measure the acoustic characteristics of complex shallow-water environments. The data can be used for the determination of the acoustic properties of the seabed, which the Navy requires for reliable predictions of sound fields in shallow-water operations. The ultimate goal is to transition the experimental methodology and inversion techniques to the operational Navy using commercial-off-the-shelf sonobuoy receivers.
Collaboration with: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Applied Research Laboratory/Penn State University.
Sponsored by: U.S. Navy
Ship Airwake-downwash Helicopter Interaction
Airwake-downwash turbulence severely affects flight operations for a helicopter taking off or landing on a ship. Relatively little is known about the stochastic features of this interaction. The airwake-downwash turbulence is treated as nonlinearly transformed atmospheric boundary layer turbulence and it is combined with calculations from a CFD-based database of flow velocity measurements for a DDG-81 class ship.
Collaboration with: Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD), Patuxent River, Maryland.
Stochastic Processes
The CAV performs research in stochastic processes, vibration, buckling and nanotechnology under the direction of Isaac Elishakoff, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering.
Signal Processing of Dolphin and Whale Vocalizations
A set of algorithms has been developed for the analysis and classification of the vocalizations of bottlenose dolphins and right whale Atlantic whale's vocalizations. The algorithms introduce novelty into bioacoustics, a field in which automation of the study of animal calls has only recently been undertaken. In this research methods to classify dolphin whistles according to their types is researched. Successful classification may be used to understand the encoded messages. Image processing techniques on time-frequency spectrograms of vocalizations to generate feature vectors which are then input to classifiers are used. The efficacy of Temporal-Frequency parameters Fourier descriptors (FDs), Local Binary Patterns (LBP) and Gabor wavelets to supply feature vectors to the K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Support Vector Machine and Sparse Representation Classifiers is studied.
2018 AIAA Aviation Conference in Atlanta - AIAA Aeroacoustics Awards Banquet
Research Vessel
- 36 ft. Newton Research Boat
- Air-conditioned Cabin
- Cruising Speed 15 knots
- Beam 14.5 ft.
- Single 355HP Cummins Diesel with 250 lb. Bow Thruster
- ~200 mile Range
- 1800 lb. A-Frame
- 500 lb. davit
- 10鈥� Instrument Well
- Integrated GPS, Depth-sounder, Radar Chart-plotter
- 9kW Generator
Charters Available For Scientific Purposes
Contact and Scheduling
Dr. Francisco Presuel-Moreno,聽Director of SeaTech
954-924-7236 or 954-924-7000
fpresuel@fau.edu