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CV 310 - Water Resources Engineering

3 lecture hours 2 lab hours 4 credits
Course Description
Water Resources Engineering is the first applied engineering course in the water area of the civil engineering curriculum. In this course, students learn the fundamentals of hydrology and hydraulics applied to surface and ground water. This course focuses on theoretical fundamentals applicable to municipal water supply and distribution, and sewage collection and management (sanitary and storm).  Upon completion of this course, the student will be prepared for the hydraulics and hydrologic systems portion of the Civil Engineering portion of the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam. The concepts studied in Water Resources Engineering are foundational to all advanced Water Resources Engineering courses and should be familiar to all practicing civil engineers. (prereq: AE 213, MA 235 , MA 262 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Basic Hydrology
    • Use an intensity-duration-frequency curve to characterize an observed rainfall or develop a design rainfall depth
    • Calculate runoff using NRCS hydrology and the rational formula
  • Basic Hydraulics
    • Calculate flow through pipes factoring with minor losses and diameter changes using the General Energy Equation and the Hazen-Williams Equation
    • Determine operating point of a pumping system with simply networked discharge piping and multiple pumps
    • Calculate uniform, steady state flow in open channels including circular and trapezoidal channel shapes using the Manning Equation
    • Utilize a specific energy theory to analyze critical depth and hydraulic jumps
    • Calculate flow through standard open channel hydraulic control structures such as weirs and flumes
  • Impulse/Momentum
    • Apply the impulse-momentum principle to compute thrust at fittings
    • Quantify power generated or used by hydraulic machinery such as pumps and turbines
  • Groundwater
    • Apply Darcy’s Law to compute flow rate in an aquifer
    • Use a pump test and groundwater flow formulas to determine the hydraulic conductivity of a soil
  • Reservoirs
    • Apply storage routing equations to route a hydrograph through a reservoir
    • Determine the safe yield of a reservoir given a long-term flow series.
  • Municipal Water Distribution, Sanitary Collection, and Storm Water Management Systems
    • Identify key elements of water distribution and sanitary sewage collection systems
    • Calculate flow in a multi-path pipeline system using energy loss and continuity equations
    • Utilize tractive-force theory to determine if sewers or channels will scour
    • Determine storm sewer size and inlet grate spacing
  • Laboratory Procedures
    • Evaluate the impact of experimental error on laboratory results

Prerequisites by Topic
  • Ability to apply the general energy equation to the solution of hydraulics problems
  • Ability to apply Manning’s equation to the solution of steady, uniform flow problems in open channels
  • Familiarity with elementary probability and statistics
  • Ability to solve ordinary differential equations

Course Topics
  • No course topics appended

Laboratory Topics
  • Rainfall/runoff (lab 1)
  • Pipe and minor loss measurement (lab 2)
  • Multipath flow (lab 3)
  • Open channel flow measurement (lab 4)
  • Gradually and rapidly steady open channel flow (lab 5)
  • Erosion and scour (lab 6)
  • Storage routing (lab 7)
  • Hydraulic conductivity and drawdown (lab 8)
  • Student investigation: Verify hydrologic or hydrologic theory (lab 9)
  • Application of Linear Momentum Equation: Francis Turbine (lab 10)

Coordinator
William Gonwa



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