CENG 161/261
				Sustainable Water Resources

Course Syllabus

Instructor:

Ed Maurer (click for web site)

Class Meeting Time and Office Hours:

T, Th 2:00-3:40 pm, EC 106
Office Hours: Mon., Wed, 4:00-5:00 pm. Office hours will be held in my office. Email me to set up other office hours by appointment.

Texts and other materials (texts are optional):

• Water Resources Sustainability, Mays, L.W., 2007. McGraw-Hill, New York.
• Water in Crisis: A Guide to the World's Fresh Water Resources, 1993, Gleick, P.H. (ed.), Oxford University Press, New York.
• Water Resources Systems Planning and Management , Loucks, D.P. and E. van Beek, 2005, UNESCO Publishing, Paris. (available on-line)

One copy of the first and second text are at the SCU Library.

Course Description:

Catalog Description: Analysis and design of water resource systems, from flood control projects to drinking water supply, as environmental constraints and societal values shift includes sustainable and low impact design techniques, climate change impacts on water, assessing sustainability, life-cycle economics, current topics.

Overview: This course will review sustainability and sustainable development in the context of water resources. The focus will be on many scales, from water conservation technologies to regional water resources impacts of climate change. Topics will include definitions and concepts of sustainability, techniques for economic analysis, simulation, and operation of water resources systems, and how these may be applied in engineering to assess water sustainability.

Prerequisites:
Junior or Senior standing. Prerequisite: CENG 140 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of instructor. Basic computer familiarity (with Microsoft Windows operating system, Windows Explorer, Excel and Word). An understanding of the hydrologic cycle and some skills with basic hydrologic statistical analysis such as developing probability distributions from a data set.

Assessment and other class policies:

This class places a heavy emphasis on class projects, homeworks and assignments. The grading structure for this class reflects this (though it may be adjusted during the first half of the course):