Soil and Water Engineering

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2 Lecture Hour(s) 0 Lab Hour(s) This course emphasizes the application of hydraulics, hydrology, saturated flow, engineering principles, and soil and plant properties in the analysis and design of soil and water management systems. Topics include water quality, precipitation, overland flow and erosion, states of flow, equations of flow, irrigation and drainage designs, and pipe flow. Additional discussions will include ways to improve conservation engineering commonly used, as well as the transfer of technology to agriculture, engineering, and other related disciplines. Prerequisites: CAEE 364 or BIOE 360 or equivalent. Corequisites: BIOE 410. F;S;SS)