The University of Rhode Island is home to the first ocean engineering program in the country and offers both undergraduate and graduate programs focusing on underwater acoustics. All ocean engineering students in the ABET-accredited undergraduate program take a course in underwater acoustics and many are involved in acoustics-focused capstone projects and research. The graduate program offers PhD degrees as well as both thesis and non-thesis Masters degree options. URI is now also offering a Graduate Certificate in Underwater Acoustics. Graduate students are actively involved in research focused on areas such as acoustical oceanography, propagation modeling, geo-acoustic inversion, marine mammal acoustics, ocean acoustic instrumentation, transducers, and signal processing. The program is based at URI’s Narragansett Bay Campus, where students have direct access to Narragansett Bay, and which is currently undergoing a renovation that will include state-of-the-art acoustic tank facilities.
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