Subsea engineering is a multidisciplinary field that builds on traditional engineering knowledge. Texas A&M University subsea engineering students will broaden their engineering skills. You will learn about the economic and operational drivers critical to designing, selecting and configuring subsea systems. You will also learn about subsea project management and execution, including experience-based lessons.
All students in this program take courses covering subsea engineering fundamentals. You may select from courses covering subsea hardware, subsea controls and umbilical systems, subsea riser systems, flowlines, pipelines and their installation.
About Subsea Engineering
Subsea engineering is a field that builds on conventional engineering knowledge. In addition to broadening their engineering skills, students will learn about the economic and operational drivers that are critical to designing, selecting and configuring subsea systems. Students will also learn subsea project management and execution, including experience-based lessons.
All students in this program are exposed to courses that cover the fundamentals of subsea engineering, and may select from courses that cover subsea hardware, subsea controls and umbilical systems, subsea riser systems, and flowlines, pipelines and their installation.
The guiding premise of this degree program is to provide practical knowledge of the subsea engineering discipline from actual experiences. The courses are taught by instructors who built their qualifications through industry experience gained from working careers in the oil and gas industry. These professors of practice had successful careers of their own prior to becoming instructors.
What is Subsea Engineering?
Subsea engineering is a multidisciplinary field that is broadly responsible for the design, construction, installation and operation of offshore oil and gas fields and offshore wind farms. Expertise or understanding of the many engineering disciplines needed to develop these offshore fields is required. The scope of this engineering field includes all subsea hardware, operational control, umbilicals, pipelines, power cables and interfaces with host production facilities.
Subsea engineering is challenging because a successful operation involves hundreds of moving parts that are designed and expected to operate flawlessly for decades in harsh offshore environments while being remotely controlled from many miles away.
What Does a Subsea Engineer Do?
Typical subsea engineering jobs are commonly centered on the following areas: (1) specialty hardware design, fabrication and installation of subsea equipment; (2) project management that enables on-time delivery and startup of subsea equipment; (3) detailed technical modeling and design of subsea systems and components; (4) subsea production operations, interventions, deep-water repairs, system troubleshooting and directing onsite activities from offshore locations.
Where Do Subsea Engineers Work?
水下工程师通常位于一个办公室location with frequent, and sometimes extended, visits to fabrication, manufacturing, installation and offshore operation sites. Subsea engineers occasionally work in international locations and other frontier areas. A subsea engineer can expect to work in a variety of different geographic areas during their career.
Why Study Subsea Engineering at Texas A&M University?
The subsea engineering master’s degree program builds upon the Texas A&M academic legacy in all areas of engineering. Texas A&M has a wide variety of unique resources, such as the Offshore Technology Research Center, and deep-water scientific expertise.
The subsea engineering master’s degree program is able to leverage a strong historical collaboration between Texas A&M and industry. Texas A&M’s advanced learning technologies and training methods are expected to help make subsea engineers from Texas A&M highly sought after for industry employment. Finally, alumni of this program join the highly connected aggie support network.
How do I apply or register for the subsea engineering program or courses?
- 注册ENGR/SSEN 430/630Fundamentals of Subsea Engineering
- 注册theContinuing Education (non-academic credit) Fundamentals of Subsea Engineering— Prior to registering for the continuing education (CE) course, interested parties are asked to apply. Qualifying students will be notified of acceptance into the CE program and will receive a link for course registration at a later date.
Students in a non-degree-seeking (NDS) post-baccalaureate status may be permitted to enroll in subsea courses. Please contact the director of the Subsea program for more information.