- Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Shell Director, Offshore Technology Research Center
- Phone:979-845-6000
- Email:rsmercier@tamu.edu
- Office:DLEB 310C
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 1985
Research Interests
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- Experimental and numerical hydrodynamics
- Global design and analysis of offshore structures
- Dynamics of deepwater mooring systems
- Scale model testing of floating structures