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Faculty and students of the UVIC Ocean Engineering Research Group all have a passion for working in and around the oceans and lakes of the world. By its very nature, Ocean Engineering Research is multidisciplinary and the OER Group includes faculty members with diverse backgrounds in electrical, mechanical and software engineering. Students are encouraged to combine theoretical and analytical work with hands-on engineering design and field experiments while enjoying the beautiful coastal environment of Vancouver Island. In addition to students, we are also keen to meet and work with other researchers and industrial partners who share our passion for oceans and lakes and who are looking for opportunities to participate in innovative ocean technology research. Many great ideas and collaborations have already come from mutual interest based discussions, a pencil, and a piece of paper (or a napkin, as the case may be).
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Dr. Alexandra Branzan Albu
Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering email: aalbu@ece.uvic.ca web: www.ece.uvic.ca/~aalbu Computer vision Image processing Video processing Visual motion analysis Object tracking Visual pattern recognition |
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Dr. Colin Bradley
Professor Mechanical Engineering email: cbr@me.uvic.ca web: www.lacir.com Dr. Colin Bradley is currently leading a project to establish an ocean technologies test bed. The seafloor "laboratory" will allow engineers to develop and test the next generation of technologies such as autonomous underwater vehicles, navigation and communication systems. The test bed will also enable a broad range of future applications, such as the emerging development of cabled ocean observatory systems, scientific instrument prototyping, and basic marine science. The test bed will be accessible to Canadian and international researchers through the UVic-led VENUS (Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea ) observatory in Saanich Inlet. VENUS is the world's first interactive real-time portal into the ocean, with live instrument readings and archived data available via the Internet. The new technologies will be applicable to NEPTUNE Canada (the North-East Pacific Time-series Undersea Networked Experiments) project, also led by UVic. Scheduled for installation in 2007-08, NEPTUNE Canada will lay 800 km of cable and scientific instruments in the deep ocean off BC. It will be the world's first regional cabled ocean observatory. |
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Dr. Bradley J. Buckham
Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering email: bbuckham@.uvic.ca web: subsea.me.uvic.ca Wave energy converter design ROV and AUV navigation Tethered undersea vehicles and cable dynamics Kinematics and control of submersible robots Biomimetic propulsion |
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Dr. Lin Cai
Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering email: cai@uvic.ca web: www.ece.uvic.ca/~cai Wireless/wireline interworking Topology control Medium access control Resource and mobility management Cross-layer design for wireless networks Underwater communications and sensor networks Vehicle networks |
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Dr. Curran Crawford
Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering email: curranc@uvic.ca web: www.me.uvic.ca/~curranc/ Tidal turbine design, analysis and development Offshore wind energy Multidisciplinary design optimization Engineering-level and reduced-order modeling techniques and development Biomimetic propulsion Sail and kite analysis and design |
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Dr. Paul Kraeutner
Adjunct Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering email: pkraeutn@engr.uvic.ca web: Model-based array signal processing Sonar signal processing Acoustic imaging and mapping 3D sidescan and 3D sector-scan imaging AUV and ROV sonar systems Sonar system and electronics design Acoustical oceanography Ocean driven power systems |
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Dr. Adam Zielinski
Wighton Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering email: adam@uvic.ca web: www.ece.uvic.ca/~adam/ Precise acoustic bathymetry Underwater communications and beamforming Acoustic data compression Acoustic applications in fisheries |