Water Resources Engineering

Catalog description

2 Lecture Hour(s) 2 Lab Hour(s) This course emphasizes the analysis and design of water resources systems. Topics include water resources planning and development, water laws, hydraulic structures, open channel flow, introduction to aquifer analysis and contamination, pipe flow (fundamentals of fluid flow), well development (pumps and pumping), flow through porous media (theory of groundwater flow), water demand and water stress supply quantity and quality, best management practices, wetlands, water table management and watershed models.