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Me315: "Ocean Engineering"
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This site provides a complete course in ocean engineering, with electronic compendium, material for classroom presentation, WAP and audio field services and online computers.

1: Textbook Navigator: ~ [*1#]
Course compendium is "A Course in Ocean Engineering" (Elsevier 1992) with 24 tutorial case studies and 24 progressive articles. Complete text with multivocal talk files is available here, with contents, index and links to sections, pages and equations.
2: Selected Lectures: ~ [*2#]
The course is prepared with 9 lectures, each with a number of overhead foils. The foils are furnished with online links to the compendium, customised computer forms and text-to-speech tutoring. Foil copies are offered as WAP-cards.
3: Tools Cabinet: ~ [*3#]
The course has some features prepared for technical work during lectures, at office or under field conditions. This counts the Ocean's internal calling system, a complex function calculator and some wireless concepts based on speech or WAP.
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Period s
4: Computer Services: ~ [*4#]
Technical calculations in lectures, at office or during field work, are executed by a set of online computers. This site contains input forms in standard format to all calculators, arranged after physical type.
5: Safety forum: ~ [*5#]
References and additional readings related safety, risk and social care.
Det Norske Veritas (DNV) is a company with skilled and highly educated workers spread all over the world. This requires a global view on development of competence and utilization of knowledge. Correspondingly, the Ocean initiative set out in the mid 80-es to support education, engineering and field work based on four principles:
1: Material should be net-based with 24-hours availability world-wide.
2: Material should appear simultaneously in an auditive and a visual representation.
3: All functions should offer a mobile, wireless field service alternative.
4: Mathematical theory should have online calculator.

The first net-based device to supplement the lectures was offered over telephone ("Kurs-automaten"). This was operative world-wide about 1988 with automatic switch-board, keystroke editor ("AUDIT") and online calculators, based on touchtone, text-to-speech and telex. The success was, however, at best limited.

The course material was converted to WWW in 1994-96 on DNV's web-server, and with cgi-functions - calling operations and calculators - hosted by the math-server of the University of Oslo. Since then, a central concern has been to restore the telephone service for applications under field conditions. Two alternative approaches have been followed:

  1. To operate a text-to-speech enabled telephone by keystrokes or voice as in the old telephone service. This returns the preformatted talk-files (extionsion *.dtk) of menues, sections and equations, and offers computer reports in Talk-format. An indication is given on the web-simulator on http://www.dnv.com/Ocean/CoursePhFr.htm
  2. An interactive WAP-service which returns text, calculator forms and reports particularly fitted for small display. URL of the "Ocean WAP-site" is: http://www.dnv.com/Ocean/Course.wml The pages may be visited imediately by the Wapsilon simulator, or by the Gelon emulator
Talk files are particularly prepared with multivocal DECtalk markup. A demo-version of a speaking notebook. may be downloaded for listening.

The course compendium was worked out in close cooperation with Elsevier Science Publishers during 1986-91 and appeared in the "Developments in Marine Technology" series in 1992. Copyright was reverted to the Author in 1996.

The course qualifies for exam in Me315-Ocean Engineering at the Institute of Mathematics, University of Oslo.

Reproduction and copying from the subsequent web-pages is allowed,
but reference to http://www.dnv.com/ocean/ is appreciated.
Complete reference to the compendium is:
S.Gran: "A Course in Ocean Engineering". Developments in Marine Technology, Vol. 8.
Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam - London - New York - Tokyo 1992.
ISBN: 0-444-88143-3.
© 2001 by Lyren Tekst og Tone, Heidi M.Gran, P.O.Box 246, N-1319 Bekkestua, Norway.
No responsibility is assumed by the author, by Elsevier, DNV or other cooperators
for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability,
neglicence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products,
instructions or ideas contained in the material herein.