Welcome to the web site for CE 421/BAE 451, Engineering Hydrology.  The site has the following major components:

Syllabus: Instructor contact information and office hours, policies and expectations, information regarding assignments and grading, link to project information.

Schedule:  Course schedule, links to assignments and solutions, due dates, links to references and resources.

Assignments:  Guidelines for both individual and group assignments.

Feedback:  Here you can provide optionally anonymous feedback to the instructor on course content, pace, teaching, or anything else.  

Grades:  Check your grades on-line.

Links:  Here are some useful and interesting links.

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Course Description

From the General Catalog:  Hydrologic cycle as applied to engineering projects; hydrograph routing; design hydrographs; introduction to hydrologic simulation.

Objectives

At the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Apply various approaches to solve practical problems in hydrology;
• Understand, describe, and manage randomness and uncertainty;
• Characterize watersheds in terms of the factors that control the magnitude and timing of drainage;
• Analyze precipitation data and synthesize design storms;
• Perform statistical flood frequency analysis using standard engineering methods;
• Estimate the peak discharge from ungauged catchments;
• Develop hydrographs useful for engineering designs;
• Route hydrographs through channels and reservoirs; and
• Understand the basic physics and importance of snowmelt.