Maritime Security Certificate
The following four courses are included in the Maritime Security Certificate.
- OE 529 Maritime Safety and Security
- OE 560 Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
- OE 629 Advanced Maritime Security
- OE 628 Technologies for Maritime Security or OE 810 Port Security Sensing Technologies
Recent and emerging threats against our nation’s maritime system, both man-made (e.g., terrorist attacks, oil spills, and pollution), and natural (e.g., hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis) have created new and complex challenges for today’s maritime professionals. The evolving complexity of these challenges strongly suggests that our current and next generation of maritime leaders and security workforce practitioners must be well grounded in the emerging science and technologies needed to inform and support our nation’s maritime security policies and directives. The four courses in this Certificate can also lead towards a Master of Science in Maritime Systems.
The objectives of the Maritime Security Graduate Certificate are to:
- provide students with the Maritime Security technical, operational, and regulatory skills to assume positions of responsibility in organizations that must deal with the threats posed to vessels, ports, and facilities by pirates, terrorists, and criminals.
- enable the student to be able to knowledgeably acquire and apply a broad range of technologies of all types in the acoustic and electromagnetic domain to maximum effect in the field of security.
- provide the students with the practical operational and regulatory skills to manage and participate in organizations responsible for port, facility, and vessel security.
- provide students with the basis to pursue research in the security area
- provide a stepping stone to an MS degree by pursuing the Maritime Security track in the MS degree program.
Faculty and Instructors:
The Maritime Systems program is led by experienced and highly qualified former maritime industry and government practitioners and by nationally recognized scientists and senior researchers from the Center for Maritime Systems (CMS), the Office of Naval Research (ONR) sponsored Maritime Security Laboratory, and the DHS National Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce (CSR).
Audience:
Maritime professionals and security practitioners who engage in management-level decision making as it relates to security technology in port and maritime environments.
Spring 2011: Port Security Sensing Technologies Course
April 4 - 6, 2011
This three-day professional development course uses selected topics from the Stevens Institute of Technology’s graduate level courses in Port Security Sensing Technologies and Technologies for Maritime Security (OE-810 and OE-628).
The objective of this course is to enable participants to understand the basic sensor technologies used in Port Security applications, to engage in discussions of these at a management level, and to make informed management decisions in their areas of responsibility regarding relevant technology-based solutions.
