Courses

    Basic principles of fluid mechanic. Covers fluid properties, hydrostatics, fluid flow concepts, including continuity, energy, momentum, dimensional analysis and similitude, and flow in closed conduits. Credit not granted for this course and MCEN 3021 or CHEN 3200 or GEEN 3853. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CVEN 2121 or GEEN 3851, or ASEN 2001, or MCEN 2023 (all minimum grade C-).
    Studies hydraulic engineering theory and applications. Topics include incompressible flow in conduits, pipe system analysis and design, open channel flow, flow measurement, analysis and design of hydraulic machinery. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CVEN 3313 or MCEN 3021, or GEEN 3853, or AREN 2120 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to Civil (CVEN), Environmental (EVEN), or Architectural (ARCH) Engineering majors only.
    Studies principles and techniques of water resources engineering design. Introduces environmental modeling under uncertainty, stormwater design, precipitation estimation, and flow routing. Surveys hydropower, reservoir management, and water resources economics. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Engineering majors only.
    Studies engineering applications of principles of hydrology, including hydrologic cycle, rainfall and runoff, groundwater, storm frequency and duration studies, stream hydrography, flood frequency, and flood routing. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CVEN 3313 or AREN 2120 or CHEN 3200 or GEEN 3853 or MCEN 3021 (all minimum grade C-). Requires co-requisite course of CVEN 3227 (or APPM 4570 or MCEN 3037).
    Studies the occurrence, movement, extraction for use,and quantity and quality aspects of groundwater. Introduces and uses basic concepts to solve engineering and geohydrologic problems. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CVEN 3313 or MCEN 3021 or CHEN 3200 or GEEN 3853 (minimum grade C-).

    Studies mathematical and numerical techniques needed to develop models to solve problems in water flow and chemical transport in aquifers. Emphasizes the learning of modeling techniques from fundamentals and the application of models to solve problems in groundwater engineering. Recommended prereq., CVEN 4353. Same as CVEN 5383.

    Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
    Analysis of viscous incompressible flows, with first-principle solutions for environmental fluid flows in oceans, rivers, lakes and the atmosphere. Topics include the Navier-Stokes equations, kinematics, vorticity dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, and density stratification. Department enforced prereqs., APPM 2350, APPM 2360, and CVEN 3313. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Introduces hydrology as a quantitative science describing the occurrence, distribution and movement of water at and near the surface of the earth. Develops a quantitative understanding of atmospheric water, infiltration, evapotranspiration and surface runoff. Studies global climatology and large scale climate drivers of regional hydrology at interannual time scales. Solves engineering problems related to water resources. Department enforced prereqs., CVEN 4333, 5454, and 5537. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Studies transport and dispersion of introduced contaminants in turbulent surface water flows. Emphasizes developing a physical understanding of fluid processes responsible for turbulent dispersion. Includes analytical development, numerical modeling, and experimental approaches to the problem.

    Studies the occurrence, movement, extraction for use, and quantity and quality aspects of groundwater. Introduces and uses basic concepts to solve engineering and geohydrologic problems. Department enforced prereqs., CVEN 3313 or AREN 2120 or CHEN 3200 or GEEN 3853 or MCEN 3021, and APPM 2360. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Introduces students to modeling techniques. Focus areas include physical hydrology and hydrometeorology; measurement and inference; climate change impacts; role of scale in hydrology; uncertainty analysis; and a case study project. Projects will examine hydrologic impacts of various drivers such as climate warming or land cover change, utilizing an assessment of historic conditions to better understand and model future disturbance scenarios. Prerequisites: Requires enrollment in corequisite course of CVEN 4333.
    Discusses contemporary issues in water management based on legal doctrine. Identifies legal issues in water resources problems and discusses in close relationship with technical, economic, and political considerations. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Seniors) or graduate students only.
    Studies mathematical and numerical techniques needed to develop models to solve problems in water flow and chemical transport in the saturated and unsaturated zones of aquifers. Not only emphasizes the learning of modeling techniques from fundamentals, but also the application of models and modeling methods to solve problems in groundwater engineering, geo-environmental engineering, hazardous waste management, aquifer remediation design, and aquifer clean-up. Same as CVEN 4383. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of APPM 2360 or MATH 3130 and MATH 4430 and CVEN 4353 or CVEN 5353 (all minimum grade C-).
    Introduces water resources planning and management as an integrated systems problem that satisfies multiple competing obejctives under constraints and uncertainty. Includes problem formulation and solution using decision support systems, optimization with and without uncertainty, stochastic simulation, and multiobjective optimization. Introduces water resources economics and planning under uncertainties such as climate change and increasing urbanization. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Seniors) or graduate students only.

    Same as CVEN 4323.

    Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Evaluation and design of more sustainable urban stormwater infrastructure systems including street inlets, on-line and off-line surface storage and infiltration systems. Integrated design for major, minor, and micro storms to provide flood control and drainage as well as control of pollution from stormwater runoff. Simulation and optimization models will be used.

    Provides a foundational physical understanding of channel networks, runoff, precipitation, and evapotranspiration at multiple spatial scales of drainage basins using modern analytical concepts for understanding non-linear phenomena, e.g., fractals, multifractals, statistical scaling, criticality, and renormalization. Department enforced prereq., CVEN 5333.

    Studies basic physics of flow and transport of water, air, and other fluid mixtures through a porous medium. Course topics are relevant to applications in contaminant hydrology, contaminant transport in aquifers, hazardous waste management, geohydrology, soil physics, and geoenvironmental engineering.

    Provides a broad introduction to a variety of research topics from hydrologic sciences and water resources engineering. Offered as a one-hour weekly seminar by the departmental water faculty, graduate students,and external speakers. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate student Civil (CVEN) Engineering students only.
    Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

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