COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GEOPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS IN COASTAL ENGINEERING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
COE 5021 GEOPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS IN COASTAL ENGINEERING ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR DERMAN DONDURUR

Offered to

COASTAL ENGINEERING
COASTAL ENGINEERING

Course Objective

Course includes description of marine geophysical methods used in coastal engineering applications. These include single/multi beam echosounders, side scan sonars, subbottom profiler systems and single channel seismic systems. Data acquisition and processing methods of each systems will be described. Interpretatins of the data for coastal engineering applications such as ports, wave-breakers, harbours etc.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Marine geophysical methods in coastal engineering
2   Underwater acoustics
3   Bathymetric surveys
4   Side scan sonar surveys
5   Shallow seismic methods

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to geophysical methods in coastal engineering, data acquisition, navigation.
2 Geophysical survey stystems and underwater acoustics.
3 Principles of bathymetric surveys, single beam echosounders, multi beam echosounders, data acquisition and processing in bathymetric surveys
4 Principles of side scan sonar surveys, data acquisition and processing in side scan sonar surveys
5 Ray geometry in side scan sonar, noise, data processing in side scan sonar.
6 Interpretation of side scan sonar data, targets and shadows, backscatter
7 1st midterm exam
8 Introduction to shallow seismic systems, seismic signal generation in marine environment, seismic recorders
9 Single channel seismic systems, data acquisition and processing
10 Interpretation of single channel seismic data
11 2nd midterm exam
12 Offshore seismic refraction method, data acquisition, processing and interpretation
13 Subbottom profiler methods, data acquisition and processing
14 Interpretation of subbottom profiler data

Recomended or Required Reading

Çifçi, G., Dondurur, D. ve Okay, S., 2005. Yüksek Ayrımlı Deniz Jeofiziği Yöntemleri, TMMOB Jeofizik Mühendisleri Odası.
Jones, E.J.W., 1999. Marine Geophysics, John Wiley & Sons.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Theoretical aspects will be taught by presentations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 ASG ASSIGNMENT
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE 1 * 0.20 + MTE 2 * 0.20 + ASG * 0.10 + FIN * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 1 * 0.20 + MTE 2 * 0.20 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Two midterm exams of 20% each, an individual project work of 10% and a final exam of 50%.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Derman DONDURUR
Deniz Bilimleri ve Teknolojisi Enstitüsü
Inciraltı-Izmir

Office Hours

Tuesday-15:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Design Project 1 12 12
Preparation for midterm exam 2 14 28
Preparation for final exam 1 13 13
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Midterm 2 2 4
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 119

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.145554445155
LO.253111445153
LO.355111445153
LO.443111445153
LO.543111445153

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