CE 394K.2 Surface Water Hydrology

Spring 2008

SYLLABUS

UNIQUE NUMBER:             15350

INSTRUCTOR:         David R. Maidment

Office: ECJ 8.612

Phone: Campus 471-4620, CRWR 471-0065

E-mail: [email-masked]

OFFICE HOURS:      Tuesday and Thursday 2-4PM, ECJ 8.612

LECTURES:               Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30-2PM, ECJ 9.236

OBJECTIVES:           This course is designed to present an advanced understanding of:

§         The movement of water through the phases of the hydrologic cycle

§         Hydrologic modeling

§         Hydrologic statistics

PREREQUISITES:    CE 319F and CE 356 or permission of instructor

TEXT:                         “Applied Hydrology” by Chow, Maidment and Mays, McGraw-Hill, 1988,

REFERENCES          “Handbook of Hydrology”, McGraw-Hill, 1993, Ed. by Maidment, which is on reserve in the Engineering Library. Other reading materials will be distributed during the semester.

CLASS FORMAT:    Lectures supplemented with outside reading, homework, and exams.

CLASS OUTLINE:    See attached.

GRADING:                Homework                   = 20%

Midterm Exam              = 20%

Oral Term Project        = 10%

Written Term Project    = 30%

Final Exam                   = 20%

Grade Ranges will be assigned as follows:

95-100%         A

90- 95%          A-

87-90               B+

83-87               B

80-83               B-

77-80               C+

73-77               C

70-73               C-

If the class is taken Credit/No Credit, a grade of Credit will be assigned for a score of 80 or above.

Any problems, personal or otherwise, affecting grades should be brought to the instructor's attention.

HOMEWORK POLICY:       Homework assignments are due in by 5PM on the day assigned. There is a box outside my door in ECJ 8.6 for turning in assignments after the class hour, if necessary. Homework must be done on clean paper, stapled in the top left corner, have your name in the top right corner, and your name, class and assignment number written on the outside when the homework is folded in half.

EXAMINATIONS:    There will be one 75 minute in class examination and a final examination. Each examination will be closed book, although you will be allowed a 1-page review sheet, and will be given on the date and time indicated. Missed examinations may be made up only if the reason for missing was illness or some other emergency.

EVALUATION:         The University Measurement and Evaluation Center forms will be used during the last week of class to evaluate the course and the instructor.

DISHONESTY:          University procedures will be followed in dealing with cases of suspected scholastic dishonesty.

ATTENDANCE:        Regular class attendance is expected in accordance with The University's General Information catalog and the College of Engineering policy (see the section on Attendance in the Undergraduate Catalog).

IMPORTANT NOTE:          The University of Texas at Austin provides upon request appropriate academic adjustments for qualified students with disabilities. For more information, contact the Office of the Dean of Students at 471-6259, 471-4241 TDD or the College of Engineering Director of Students with Disabilities at 471-4321.

Term Project

The purposes of the term project are:

To enable you to explore in-depth some aspect of hydrology of personal interest to you.

To provide experience in the formulation, execution and presentation of original research, including the proper documentation of a term project.

To make an oral presentation and produce a report in html on the world wide web that will be informative to you and to your classmates.

The steps in carrying out the project are:

Establish a web page.  If you don't already have a personal web page, establish one as part of the UT personal webspace.  See webspace.mht for more information on how to do this.

Prepare a 1-page proposal in html on your website by Thurs Feb 14 specifying the objective of your project and outlining how you plan to go about executing it. Notify the instructor by email that your proposal is available and you will receive a response by email containing an assessment of the scope of work that you propose. After making any revisions in your proposal that seem necessary in the light of this assessment, this proposal defines the scope of your term project.

Prepare a 2 page status report on your project to be posted on your website by Thurs March 20.  You are expected to make some progress by mid-semester but the main effort on your term project in the later part of the course once you've learned more about the methods in the course.

Present a final report orally in class near the end of the semester (you will have 10 -12 minutes for your presentation) and present your term paper in html on your web page by the last day of classes (Friday May 2). It is critical that you post your paper by this date because your classmates may need to read your paper in order to complete their final exam.

If you would like to work in a group to pursue a term project, that is fine, but you must carry out a particular section of the project on which you will present your oral and written report.

Key dates are shown in italics in the schedule below.

SCHEDULE

Class

Date

Topic

1

Tues Jan 15

Class rescheduled*

2

Thurs Jan 17

Introduction to the course, hydrologic cycle

3

Tues Jan 22

Hydrologic systems, control volumes, Reynolds Transport Theorem

4

Thurs Jan 24

Exercise 1 – Obtaining and interpreting hydrologic data

5

Tues Jan 29

Mass, momentum and energy in hydrology

6

Thurs Jan 31

Atmospheric water

7

Tues Feb 5

Precipitation

8

Thurs Feb 7

Exercise 2 – Atmospheric water and precipitation

9

Tues Feb 12

Surface climate and energy balance

10

Thurs Feb 14

Evaporation processes

11

Tues Feb 19

Exercise 3 – Evaporation

12

Thurs Feb 21

Soil water properties

13

Tues Feb 26

Soil water & infiltration processes

14

Thurs Feb 28

Exercise 4 – Soil water balance

15

Tues Mar 4

Review for Midterm Exam

16

Thurs Mar 6

Midterm exam

Spring Break!

17

Tues Mar 18

Watershed properties

18

Thurs Mar 20

Streamflow processes

19

Tues Mar 25

Exercise 5 – surface water balance

20

Thurs Mar 27

Probability and statistics in hydrology

21

Tues Apr 1

Flood frequency and flood mapping

22

Thurs Apr 3

Exercise 6 – Flood frequency and uncertainty

23

Tues Apr 8

Hydrologic Risk Assessment

24

Thurs Apr 10

Water supply reliability analysis

25

Tues Apr 15

TMDL and load duration curves

26

Thurs Apr 17

Instream flow and streamflow characterization

27

Tues Apr 22

3D statistical interpolation for water bodies

28

Thurs Apr 24

Term Project presentations

29

Tues Apr 29

Term Project presentations

30

Thurs May 1

Course instructor evaluation, term project presentations, and review for the final exam

* please attend the lecture on Coastal Hydrodynamic Modeling to be presented by Dr Peter Sheng in the EWRE Seminar Program on Thursday March 20 at 3:30PM.  We will synthesize coastal and riverine flooding processes in later lectures in this class.