Course overview
This course dives into the essentials of water engineering, crucial for civil and environmental engineers, covering a broad range of topics. You'll explore the water cycle, hydrological processes, and fluid mechanics, including hydrostatics, buoyancy, and fluid motion. Building on these fundamentals, we will then dive into pipe flow concepts and master open channel hydraulics. Practical applications are emphasized through a design project, bringing pipeline and open channel flow principles to life.
- Engineering Water As A Resource
- Fluid Mechanics Essentials
- Practical Hydraulics For Pipe Systems And Open Channels
Course learning outcomes
- Undertake testing to obtain the properties of construction materials according to national standards
- Apply principles of fluid statics and fluid motion to solve problems related to forces on immersed bodies and steady flow
- Apply the underlying governing principles for behaviour of flows and pressures to solve problems related to simple pipe systems
- Identify and apply the relevant governing principles to solve problems related to open channel flow for simple channel geometries
- Undertake laboratory experiments competently and safely on a range of foundational fluid, pipe and open channel systems, and employ the appropriate theory to analyse and interpret the measured data
- Analyse, design and optimise selected water resource systems, including communication of designs and design choices, recognising uncertainty and limitations of engineering approaches and systems
Degree list
The following degrees include this course