Faculty 
Kenneth C. Baldwin, Professor
Director - Center for Ocean Engineering
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Office: Jere Chase O.E. Lab, 121F |
CredentialsPh.D., Ocean Engineering, University of Rhode Island, 1982 |
Prof. Baldwin's research and teaching interests are broad. He has worked in marine geoacoustics, collison tolerant aides to navigation and marine mammal bioacoustics.
Prof. Baldwin teaches course in ocean engineering as well as mechanical engineering and he regularly teaches OE 690 - Introduction to Ocean Engineering, OE 710/810 - Ocean Measurements Lab and OE 785/885 - Underwater Acoustics.
Research Areas
- Ocean engineering/geoacoustic/ocean acoustics
- Shear and compressional wave parameters of marine sediments
- Ins-situ wire-line acoustic tool development
- Collison tolerant piles
- Measurement systems to assess ocean processed
Recent Publications
- "Protocols for calibrating multibeam sonar", K. Foote, D. Chu, T. Hammar, K. Baldwin, L. Mayer, L. Hufnagle, and J. Jech, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 117 (4) April 2005.
- "Reaction of Hector's dolphins to acoustic gillnet pingers", G.S. Stone, L. Cavagnaro, A. Hutt, S. Kraus, K. Baldwin, J. Brown, Client Report on contract 3071, Dept. of Conservation, PO Box 10-420, Wellington, New Zealand, December 2000.
- "Open Ocean Aquaculture Engineering: System Design and Physical Modeling", D.W. Fredriksson, M.R. Swift, E. Muller, K.C. Baldwin, and B. Celikkol, Journal of the Marine Technology Society, Spr 2000 Issue.
- "Open Ocean Aquaculture Engineering: Mooring & Net Pen Deployment", K.C. Baldwin, R. Steen, D. Michelin, E. Muller, and P. Lavoie, Journal of the Marine Technology Society, Spr. 2000 Issue.
- "Open Ocean Aquaculture Engineering: Numerical Modeling", I. Tsukrov, M. Ozbay, D.W. Fredricksson, M.R. Swift, K.C. Baldwin, and B. Celikkol, Journal of the Marine Technology Society, Spr. 2000 Issue.