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Civil and Environmental

Water Resources Engineering EFA

This course covers the application of hydraulic and hydrologic principles to plan and design water-resource projects within the context of environmental, societal, and economic considerations. In this case, it broadens and extends knowledge acquired from the course 53:071 Principle of Hydraulics, which focuses more on the "nuts and bolts" aspects of water-related projects; e.g., dam design, bridge hydraulics.

A resource-engineering theme runs through the course, reflecting the growing importance of engineering management of resources generally. The theme touches on the history of water-resource development in the United States, water-policy issues, economics, environmental and societal impacts, and systems-analysis applied to water-resource projects.

This EFA is offered within either the General Civil or the Environmental Subtrack of CEE. The EFA consists of an additional 21 semester hours (SH) of courses as listed in the table below.

The following 2 courses are required for this EFA:

Session Course # Required Course SH Pre-/Co-Requisites
Fall
53:170
Open Channel Flow
3
 053:071
Spring
53:171
 Water Resources
3
 053:174

Choose 5 of the following technical courses for this EFA:

Session Course # Electives SH Pre-/Co-Requisites
Spring
53:103
 Water Quality
3
 59:009
Fall
53:178
 Hydrometeorology
3
  
Spring
53:102
 Groundwater
3
  
Spring
53:117
 Remote Sensing
3
  
Spring
53:173
 Mechanics of Sediment Transport
3
 53:170
Fall 12:139 Integrated Watershed Analysis
3
  
Spring 53:181 Vadose Zone Hydrology
3
  
Spring 53:186 Contaminant Hydrology
3
  
Fall 44:110 GIS for Environmental Studies
3
 P 044:005
Spring 53:104 Groundwater Modeling
3
 P 22M:026 and 012:166
Fall 44:188 Applied Geostatistics
3
  
Summer 53:172 Experimental Methods in Fluid Mechanics & Heat Transfer
3
  

* These courses listed are typical but not guaranteed to be taught

Total SH= 7 courses X 3 hours each= 21 SH

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