The Fourth International Conference in Ocean Engineering 
(ICOE2018) will be organized by the Department of Ocean 
Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras 
(IITM). During the 60 years of its existence, the IITM 
has consolidated itself as an Institute of excellence in 
technology and research and has become the number one 
institute in the technological education in the country. 
The Department of Ocean Engineering has achieved 
significant success with a very dynamic profile in terms 
of training graduate and postgraduate professionals for 
careers across the globe. The department is a centre of 
excellence in disciplines spanning across the areas of 
ship design, coastal and harbor structures, deep-water 
technologies, marine geo-techniques, energy and areas in 
oil and gas. The department has an internationally 
acclaimed rare combination of hydrodynamic test 
facilities that include a towing tank, a wave basin, wave 
flumes, harbor modelling basin, ocean energy, oil and gas 
supported by state of the art instrumentation as well as 
the expertise of the faculty team. The department 
organized ICOE in 1996, 2001 and 2009. With this 
background, the fourth International Conference in Ocean 
Engineering 2018 (ICOE2018) offers an exciting platform 
for academicians, engineers from industry, policy makers 
and administrators from all over the globe to deliberate 
on various conference themes.