B622 – Engineering Hydrology (Floods and Droughts)

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Engineering Hydrology (Floods and Droughts)
Engineering Hydrology (Floods and Droughts)
Module number
B622
Version: 2
Faculty
Civil Engineering
Level
Master
Duration
1 semester
Turnus
Summer semester
Module supervisor

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ulrike Feistel
ulrike.feistel(at)htw-dresden.de

Lecturers

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ulrike Feistel
ulrike.feistel(at)htw-dresden.de


Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Jakob Ebermann
jakob.ebermann(at)htw-dresden.de

Teaching language(s)

English

ECTS credits

5.00 Credits

Workload

150 hours

Courses

5.00 SWS (2.00 SWS Lecture | 2.00 SWS Seminar | 1.00 SWS Internship)

Self-study time

75.00 hours

Pre-requisite(s) for the examination

Paper
Tested in English language


Protocols
Tested in English language

Examination(s)

Written examination
Examination duration: 90 min | Weighting: 100 % | Tested in English language

Teaching form

Lectures, seminars, practical, excursions

Media type
Not specified
Teaching content / structure

Lecture:

  • Water resources and politics
  • Application of the Rational Method for designing hydraulic structures 
  • Flooding1 - Flood estimation and flood forecasting
  • Flooding2 - Flood risk management ( (Standard of Protection, Risk assessment, risk models incl. Expected Anual Damage, etc), Example CFMPs, HEC-FDA)
  • Flooding3 - Flood protection
  • Field work1 - Flow gauging using verious methods including ADCP
  • Field work2 - Measuring soil moisture, soil water tension
  • Field work3 - Infiltration
  • Water Resources Management1 - Rain water harvesting
  • Water Resources Management1 - Reservoir modelling (HEC-ResSim)
  • Water Resources Management1 - Irrigation and drainage
Qualification objectives

Students will futher apply their hydrological knowledge. They learn how to deal with flooding and in the context of water resources managemnt how to deal with droughts. They learn in an exemplary way how to use software as a means of assisting in planning and decision making.

Through work on examples they will be able to draft design rainwater harvesting systems, reservoirs and irrigation systems. They will be able to evaluate and judge respective systems.

During the field work they apply various techniqes for collecting hydrometric data and carry out the respective processing further improving the ability to evaluate such data.   

Social and personal skills

- Developing competence in evaluating and designing engineering solutions to water problems

- Performing cooperative and responsible team work

Special admission requirement(s)
Not specified
Recommended prerequisites
Not specified
Continuation options
Not specified
Literature

Script

Current teaching resources

Script, HEC-FDA and HEC-ResSIM software, selected publications

Notes
Not specified
Link to course or learning resources in OPAL
https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal/auth/RepositoryEntry/29012951040
Modulux link:
https://apps.htw-dresden.de/modulux/en/module/4522