Lecture meets 3 times per week for 50 minutes per meeting for 15 weeks
Specific course information
Catalog description: Meteorology; precipitation; stream flow, evaporation, and transpiration; subsurface flows, well hydraulics; runoff relations and hydrographs; elements of stream flow routing, frequency and duration studies; extreme values statistics applied to flood and drought forecasting; application of hydrologic techniques.
Prerequisites: None
Course status: Technical elective
Specific goals for the course
Student learning outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course the student shall be able to:
Describe the hydrologic cycle, its components and reservoirs;
Perform water balance of a hydrologic system;
Apply various hydrologic concepts to compute basic hydrologic fluxes such as infiltration, evapotranspiration and streamflow;
Simulate the hydrology of a watershed using HEC-HMS hydrology model;
Use MS Excel to perform hydrologic computations and plot hydrologic data
Relationship of course to program outcomes
Outcome 1: An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
Outcome 5: An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks and meet objectives.
Topics
HYDROLOGIC CYCLE
Discussion of the hydrologic cycle, its components, processes and the continuity equation
PRECIPITATION
Vapor pressure, physics of precipitation, measurement and aerial estimation of rainfall using different methods
EVAPORATION/EVAPOTRANSPIRATION
Factors affecting evaporation, methods for computing evaporation
SUBSURFACE WATER
Properties of porous media, aquifer, Darcy’s Law, moisture characteristic curve, Richard’s equation, estimation of infiltration using different methods
