Introduction to the
academy
ACOPNE-Profession
The COPNE-Profession comprises the individuals and professional organizations that are engaged in the sustainable development and protection of coastal, ocean, port, and navigation environments for the benefit of society in the United States and foreign countries. ACOPNE has in part been created to complement the Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute (COPRI) and provides recognition to those individuals who have excelled in one or more of the sub-disciplines embraced by COPRI. In this regard, ACOPNE has defined the follow subspecialty fields of expertise consistent with the sub-disciplines contained in COPRI.Coastal Engineering
Coastal engineering involves the practice of civil engineering, as well as the sciences of oceanography and coastal geology concerned with the interactions between water and land, including shorelines, bays, lakes, estuaries, inlets, river mouths, and harbors, and the structures within these environments.Ocean Engineering
Ocean engineering involves the practice of civil engineering and the science of oceanography concerned with the design, analysis, operation, and planning of systems that operate in the oceanic environment.Port Engineering
Port engineering involves the practice of civil engineering, environmental engineering, and the science of oceanography concerned with the planning, design, construction, maintenance, operation, pollution control, and technical functioning of ports and harbors.Navigation Engineering
Navigation engineering involves the life cycle planning, design, construction, operation and life maintenance of safe, secure, reliable, efficient and environmentally sustainable navigable waterways (channels, structures and support systems) used to move people and goods by waterborne vessels.Additional Fields within the COPNE-Profession
The Board of Trustees, in the name of and on behalf of ACOPNE, may in its sole discretion identify and define additional suitable specialty fields of expertise within the COPNE-Profession.
Inaugural class of Diplomates inducted in Jacksonville, FL at Ports 2010
2nd Ceremony in Houston, TX at OTC
(From L to R: John Bomba, Richard Seymour, Steven Balint, Gordon Sterling, Jack Templeton, Robert Dean, Robert Randall, and David Wisch)
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