Water Resources & Irrigation Engineering

Description

Fields and management challenges of water resources (quality and quantity) for the municipal, industrial, and agricultural sectors, and overview of irrigation systems & agricultural & urban drainage system. - Watershed descriptive hydrology and measurements. - Quantitative hydrology. - Quantitative surface water hydrology and principles of sustainability. - Groundwater hydrology, and principles of sustainability. - Soil-Water-Crop relationship and Crop water requirements. - Synoptic diagram for surface irrigation and drainage systems & design of cross-sections for surface irrigation channels. -Flow regimes in natural & open channel streams and sediment transport. - Design of water supply open channels uniform and non-uniform flow - Sprinkler irrigation systems & Drip irrigation systems. - Drainage system, planning, design, construction, and operation of subsurface and land drainage. - Reservoirs and lakes. - Hydraulic structures for water resources management. - Flood-damage mitigation structures and storm-water management. - Sustainability of water resources management and effects of global climate change.

Program

B.Sc. in Construction and Building Engineering 160 Cr.Hr.

Objectives

• This course is designed to provide the students to water resources engineering and water resources management. In addition to teach essentials of planning, selection and design of irrigation and drainage systems and other related topics related to the sustainable management of water resources and disposal or reuse of drainage waters as sectors of water resources system.