Ocean Engineering

Ocean Engineering

Students prepare an underwater ROV.

Sheets Building, 15 Receiving Road, Narragansett, RI 02882 – USA
nicole.larkin@uri.edu – Nicole Larkin

News

  • COE Welcomes New Faculty - Mehrshad Amini, Assistant Professor, CVE/OCE Dr. Mehrshad Amini will join the University of Rhode Island in Fall 2023 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Ocean Engineering. He completed his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University in 2021. […]
  • URI Engineering Researchers Awarded $750k Grant on Floating Wind Turbines - The Biden administration has set a goal of deploying enough offshore wind turbines to produce 30 gigawatts—enough to power tens of millions of homes—by 2035. Key to that strategy is the development of floating wind turbines that can be built in vast areas of deeper water.
  • URI College of Engineering Awarded $1.14 Million to Attract Under Represented Students - University of Rhode Island Associate Professor Samantha Meenach is the recipient of a federal grant that will help students from underrepresented groups pursue studies in undergraduate bioengineering and bioscience research programs and eventually apply to graduate school in these disciplines.
  • Engineering Kick-Off Day September 5th - September 5th, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The day includes a meet-and-greet of new faculty and staff, a graduate student welcome, and an undergraduate student fair where students get a chance to explore the various student organizations, engineering innovation and entrepreneurship offerings, minors and concentrations, and the International Engineering Program (IEP). It even includes a […]

Highlights

  • Student Spotlight: Isaac Scarborough - By Kat Billo ’25 Tell us a little about yourself. “My name is Isaac Scarborough and I’m from Millsboro Delaware, I am a junior in the Ocean Engineering program.”  Why engineering? “A lot of my family are engineers so I grew up around it and I grew up on the water so I’ve always had […]
  • Block-Island-wind-turbine sized Save the whales- but from what? - By Hugh Markey When ten whales washed up on the New Jersey shoreline over the course a few months in 2023, people were understandably concerned. What happened here? How did these beautiful animals meet such ignominious deaths? Might the cause have something to do with wind turbines? URI Ocean Engineering Prof. James Miller says the […]

Events

Programs

Undergraduate

Graduate


Faculty

Professor and Department Chair

Sheets 111, Narragansett Bay Campus

401.874.6540
miller@uri.edu

Professor

Ocean Science and Exploration Center 103, Narragansett Bay Campus

401.874.6480
rballard@uri.edu
website

Professor

Sheets, Narragansett Bay Campus

401.874.6575
cbaxter@uri.edu

Associate Professor

Sheets 217, Narragansett Bay Campus

401.874.6122
jmdahl@uri.edu

Professor Research

Sheets 216, Narragansett Bay Campus

401.874.6029
annette_grilli@uri.edu

Distinguished Engineering Professor

215 Sheets, Narragansett Bay Campus

401.874.6636
grilli@uri.edu

Associate Professor

Sheets 212, Narragansett Bay Campus

401.874.6217
reza_hashemi@uri.edu

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor and Graduate Director

Sheets 211, Narragansett Bay Campus

401.874.6028
slicht@uri.edu
website

Associate Professor

401.874.6676
bloose@uri.edu

Assistant Professor

401.874.6610
momand@uri.edu

President, University of Rhode Island, Professor, Mechanical, Ocean, and Civil Engineering

Green Hall

401.874.2222
lharrison@uri.edu
website

Associate Professor

Sheets 214, Narragansett Bay Campus

401.874.6035
brennanphillips@uri.edu
website

Professor Research

Middleton 115, Narragansett Bay Campus

401.874.6591
gpotty@uri.edu

Professor

Horn 111, Narragansett Bay Campus

401.874.6115
croman2@uri.edu

Associate Professor

Sheets 213, Narragansett Bay Campus

401.874.6879
loravu@uri.edu
website

Assistant Professor

401.874.6633
mzhou@uri.edu

Assistant Professor

chewei.chang@uri.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Staff

Tech Staff Assistant

james_frost@uri.edu

Administrative Assistant, Scientific Research Grant Assistant

nicole.larkin@uri.edu

Boat Captain

401.874.6242
fredpease@uri.edu

Student Resources