High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ocean Engineering is an ambiguously defined discipline, but may refer to Oceanographic Engineering a term describing marine electronics engineering applied to supporting the work of oceanographers; or, may refer to offshore engineering, or maritime engineering, which is the branch of engineering allied to civil engineering, and concerned with the technical aspects of fixed and floating offshore marine structures and systems related to harnessing ocean resources. These include offshore oil and gas and the rapidly expanding area of ocean renewable energy, as well as other ocean resource activities such as sub-sea mining and aquaculture. As with all engineering disciplines ocean engineering should be concerned with the design and operation of systems ? in the ocean; and should not be confused with oceanography ? the scientific study of oceanic systems; nor marine electronics engineering (oceanographic engineering), which is concerned with the design and operation of remote sensing systems.