| Note: Students must take at least three credits from Theme 1. Up to eight credits from Theme 1 may count towards certificate program.
BBE 5513 - Watershed Engineering
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3023, upper div IT; fall, every year)
Application of engineering principles to managing surface runoff from agricultural, range, and urban watersheds. Design of facilities and selection of land use practices for controlling surface runoff to mitigate problems of flooding and degradation of surface-water quality.
BBE 8513 - Hydrologic Modeling of Small Watersheds
(3.0 cr; Prereq-CE 3502, hydrology course)
Study and representation of hydrologic processes by mathematical models: stochastic meteorological variables, infiltration, overland flow, return flow, evapotranspiration, and channel flows. Approaches for model calibration and evaluation.
CE 4511 - Hydraulic Structures
(4.0 cr; Prereq-4501; A-F or Aud)
Hydraulic design procedures for culverts, dams, spillways, outlet works, and river control works. Drop structures, water intakes, bridge crossings. Offered alternate years.
CE 4512 - Open Channel Hydraulics
(4.0 cr; Prereq-IT or grad, 3502 or #; A-F or Aud, fall, spring)
Theories of flow in open channels, including gradually varied and rapidly varied flows, steady and unsteady flows. Computational methods for unsteady open channel flows, applications to flood routing. Introduction to moveable bed mechanics.
CE 4501 - Hydrologic Design
(4.0 cr; Prereq-3502; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, every year)
Hydrologic cycle: precipitation, evaporation, infiltration runoff. Flood routing through rivers and reservoirs. Statistical analysis of hydrologic data and estimation of design flows. Open channel flow, flow through conduits. Detention basin design, hydraulic structure sizing, estimation of risk of flooding.
CE 8511 - Mechanics of Sediment Transport
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3502 and 4501 or #; A-F or Aud)
Particle motion in fluids. Criteria for incipient motion. Formulations for bedload and suspended load. Bedform mechanics and hydraulic resistance relations. Channel stability, aggradation and degradation, alluvial stream morphology.
FR 5114 - Hydrology and Watershed Management
(3.0 cr; =[FR 3114]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, every year)
Introduction to hydrologic cycle and water processes in upland/riparian systems. Applications of hydrological concepts to evaluate impacts of forest management and other land use patterns/activities on water yield, stormflow, erosion, sedimentation, and water quality. Concepts, principles, and applications of riparian/watershed management. Economic/social factors. National/global examples. Emphasizes forest ecosystems.
FR 5153 - Forest and Wetland Hydrology
(3.0 cr; Prereq-[Basic hydrology course, [upper div or grad student]] or #; spring, every year)
Current topics, methods/models in forest/wetland hydrology. Hydrologic role of forests, wetlands, riparian systems in snowfall/rainfall regimes. How activities such as deforestation, wetland drainage, and stream channel alterations, affect hydrologic response of watersheds. Runoff/streamflow response from undisturbed/altered forest/wetland watersheds. Problem-solving exercises.
GEO 4701 - Geomorphology
(3.0 - 4.0 cr [max 4.0 cr]; Prereq-1001, Math 1031 or #)
Origin, development, and continuing evolution of landforms in various environments. Environmental implications. Weathering, slope and shore processes, fluvial erosion and deposition, arid region processes, glacial processes.
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