Development Of An Ocean Engineering Course As A Technical Elective For Mechanical Engineers

Abstract

This paper outlines the development of a course in Ocean Engineering to be used as a technical elective for mechanical engineering students. With some modifications, the course is also being offered as a technology elective for graduate students in a marine science program. The paper covers the following sequence of events: a sabbatical leave by the course instructor to develop improved capability in this area, textbook selection, course syllabus, and first year experiences teaching the course. A small wave tank was designed and built by some students in conjunction with the first offering of the course, and this is now being used for demonstrations in future offerings of the course.

Theory highlights of Quark Matter 2004

“…EM radiation off jets is part of what is more generally denoted as "pre-equilibrium" sources, which have recently been evaluated in a parton cascade simulation as presented in Bass' talk [62]. The pertinent photon spectra for RHIC are confronted with hydrodynamic [63] as well as thermal fireball calculations [64] in Fig. 4 (right panel), also suggesting that pre-equilibrium yields dominate above p t ≃2 GeV.…”

“…The two thermal calculations agree rather well, with hadron-gas radiation prevalent up to p t ≃1 GeV, where QGP radiation takes over. It is also noteworthy that chemical offequilibrium in a QGP affects the thermal photon yields very little, i.e., undersaturated parton distributions are essentially compensated by higher temperatures [63].…”

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