Teaching

Graduate Courses

CEE 9535A - Advanced Methods in Hydroscience: Applications and Design

Design, planning, and management of civil infrastructure require understanding, simulation and prediction of hydrological and environmental components. This course gives students a working knowledge of probabilistic and statistical approaches to analyze and interpret growing observed and simulated spatial and temporal data (e.g. climate, hydrology, environment, ecology, geology, population etc.). The emphasis will be on developing analytical skills to simulate and predict natural disasters including floods and droughts in an uncertain and changing climate. Topics covered in this class will be supplemented with computer exercises, which will use graphical and statistical software packages such as R, MATLAB, and ArcGIS to perform numerical analysis of real-world data.

CEE 9567B (with 4463B) - Watershed Modelling

This course introduces students to the concepts, techniques and application of few widely used software tools to process watershed and simulate flood hazard characteristics. Students will develop an understanding of Geographic Information System (GIS) to analyze spatial hydrologic datasets and conduct hydrologic and hydrologic modelling using HEC-HMS, HEC-GeoHMS, HEC-RAS, HEC-GeoRAS and ArcGIS modules. By the end of this course, students should be able to identify, describe, and convert between common geospatial data types in a GIS; explain, transform and manipulate map projections and coordinate systems; identify, describe and perform various kinds of basic spatial analyses beneficial in water resources system modelling; accurately digitize riverine features in a GIS for use in hydrologic and hydraulic modeling software; competently use spatial modeling, hydrologic and hydraulic software tools for water resources applications; apply fundamental principles of hydrology and hydraulics for river network analysis; apply knowledge of spatial data, processes, and analysis combined with hydrologic and hydraulic tools to find solutions to common water resources management problems; effectively present results of analyses in both oral and written formats.

 

Undergraduate Courses

CEE 4476A - Environmental Hydraulics Design

This course applies the principles of hydraulics and fluid mechanics to the environmental flows of water in open channels. At the end of this course students will be able to identify, formulate, and analyze environmental hydraulics of open channel flows; apply knowledge of hydraulics and fluid mechanics to the analysis and design of hydraulic structures and river flows; plan, design, and conduct a laboratory investigation in support of a design project in a small group; improve communication skills by contributing to the preparation of comprehensive reports and an oral presentation; develop an awareness of water resources issues surrounding environmental flows in open channel waters, and appreciate professional responsibility issues.

CIVE 440 - Hydraulics and Hydrology, University of Victoria, BC (2016)

Application of continuity, energy and momentum principles to flow in open channels and closed conduits; design of channels considering uniform flow and flow resistance, non-uniform flow and longitudinal profiles; design of channel controls and transitions; unsteady flow; theory and design of hydraulic structures. Introduction to engineering hydrology and water resource systems; estimation of design discharge; statistical analysis of extremes; impacts of climate change on the hydrologic cycle, watershed analysis, snow, runoff.