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dr. robert a. savoie college of engineering
coastal engineering & sciences certificate program
coastal sciences courses

Coastal Sciences Courses

Format of Courses

The courses will be offered in Spring or Fall semester
The courses will be offered in a dual format (classroom and online over the internet)
The classroom lectures will be videotaped. These videos will be available to the students via LSU New Orleans's webpage
Course notes will be shared with the students through Canvas
Internet (out of town) students will need a professional engineer to proctor their examinations/ quizzes

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How to Apply

Time Frame

The CEAS certificates can be earned in two years. All courses will cover material independent of each other and none of the four (4) courses and prerequisite to the other courses. Therefore, depending upon work schedule and other commitments, the student can start taking the courses at any semester, or miss a semester, and take the missing course(s) when they are offered again over the two-year cycle.

Courses

To obtain the certificate, the students will have to complete the following four (4) courses with a minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) of a B average (3.0).

Course Name	Course Description
EES 5900 Coastal Processes (Generally offered every Fall)	This course will focus on the physical processes operating in the coastal environment. Key elements of this course include wind waves - their generation and transformation processes, coastal hydrodynamics and transport processes, coastal water level fluctuations (short-term and long-term), and governing processes on beach/barrier, deltaic, wetland and estuarine environments. Introductory concepts in coastal morphodynamics will be presented through case studies that cover topics of land building, deltaic and estuarine sedimentation, marsh edge erosion, longshore transport and shoreline change, run-up and inundation over wash during storms, and inlet backbarrier interactions. The course will also emphasize on presenting modeling tools available for the study of such environments, and review observation techniques and analysis tools currently used.
ENCE 6334 Sediment Transport and Dredging (Expected to be offered in Spring 2021)	Particle size analysis, fluid-particle systems, incipient motion; suspended and total loads; bedforms; sediment measurements; physical and numerical modeling of sediment transport; transport of liquid-solid mixtures in pipes; dredging equipment; hydraulic and mechanical dredging; geotechnical properties of dredged sediments; environmental impacts of dredging; pipeline transport of dredged sediments.
EES 6760 Coastal Restoration and Management (Offered in Fall 2020)	Coastal problems and appropriate mitigation approaches on barrier shorelines and beaches, deltas, and estuaries. Management aspects include project implementation and a background to regulatory frameworks for coastal restoration decision-making. Large restoration efforts from Louisiana and other locations will be presented, including case studies, lessons learned, adaptive management, project monitoring, and performance evaluation.
EES 5550 Coastal Geomorphology (Expected to be offered in Spring 2021)	Process relationships in a variety of coastal settings, including beaches and barrier shorelines, estuaries, and tidal wetlands, rocky coasts and cliffs, coral reefs and atolls. Fundamental driving processes in a coastal environment such as climate, waves, tides and storms will be discussed through case studies. Field measurements of coastal parameters will also be discussed

Coastal Sciences Courses

Format of Courses

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Time Frame

Courses

EES 5900

Coastal Processes

(Generally offered every Fall)

ENCE 6334

Sediment Transport and Dredging

(Expected to be offered in Spring 2021)

EES 6760

Coastal Restoration and Management

(Offered in Fall 2020)

EES 5550

Coastal Geomorphology

(Expected to be offered in Spring 2021)

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