CENG 162/262
				Computational Water Resources

Course Syllabus

Instructor:

Ed Maurer (click for web site)

Class Meeting Time and Office Hours:

T Th 10:20-12:00 pm, EC 618
Office Hours: Mon, Wed. 4:00p-5p, or email me to set up other office hours by appointment.

Texts and other materials (texts are optional; memory stick is required):

Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop, 3^rd Ed., T. Ormsby, E. Napoleon, R. Burke, L.Feaster, and C. Groessl, 2010. Available from ESRI Press. (Includes a trial version of ArcGIS you can install on your own PC).

Any engineering hydrology or water resources engineering textbook. A decent freely available reference is Highway Hydrology, Second Edition, Hydraulic Design Series No. 2 (HDS-2), U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.

Documentation for HEC-HMS and HEC-RAS and their ArcGIS extensions. This is all free on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC) website (http://www.hec.usace.army.mil/)

Documentation for the SWAT model.

4GB or larger memory stick. These are available at the SCU bookstore or places like Frys for about $15). The exercises will use some large datasets that may exceed your allocated space on the network. A memory stick will allow you to save class materials and back them up on another machine.

Course Description:

Catalog Description: Use of professional applications software to design and evaluate facility components and systems for water resources engineering projects. Laboratory. CENG 162 cross-listed with CENG 262. Prerequisites: CENG 140 and 141 or permission of instructor.

Course Overview:

This course will use the ArcGIS geographical information system (GIS) software to ingest existing data sets describing the land surface of a watershed. The GIS software will be the primary tool to manipulate this data to produce input data necessary to use hydrology models, inclduing the SWAT model, and the widely-used HEC-HMS software to translate a design rainstorm into a hydrograph of streamflow. the HEC-RAS software will then be used to route a flood flow through a stream, to assess the areas where flooding could be a concern. Examples will be used for a local watershed, but students will develop their own data sets for a stream of interest. Final projects will be presented in both written and oral form.

Prerequisites

Junior or Senior standing. Prerequisite: CENG 141 and 140 (may be taken concurrently) or equivalent coursework in hydrology, or permission of instructor. Basic computer familiarity (with Microsoft Windows operating system, Windows Explorer, Excel and Word).

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):