Engineering Hydrology

Learning Outcomes: 
Α) Knowledge-based
• Student introduction to the processes included in the water cycle (rural and urban)
• Presentation of the meteorological monitoring system (satellites, radars, weather stations) and the hydrometric monitoring system (discharge calculation)
• Introduction to modelling (Rainfall-runoff models, flood models)
• Performing a risk analysis in order to design several hydraulic works
Β) Skills/Competences acquired
• Capacity to assimilate the available weather data
• Capacity to design a hydraulic work
• Ability to use several hydrological models

Course Content:  
This course introduces the student to the basic principles of Engineering Hydrology. The course contains lectures, examples and exercises on the main components of the water cycle, giving an emphasis to the hydraulic works design. The lectures are the following:
1. Introduction
2. Precipitation
3. Catchment characteristics
4. Hydrological losses and rainfall excess
5. Rainfall-runoff modelling of small catchments
6. Rainfall-runoff modelling of medium and large catchments
7. Flood propagation
8. Hydrological measurements
9. Statistical hydrology
10. Risk analysis for hydraulic works design
11. Urban hydrology
12. Special aspects
13. Final course

Suggested Bibliography: 

1. Ponce, V.M. (2014). Engineering Principles and Practices (Second Edition). online edition published in the personal webpage of the author: http://ponce.sdsu.edu/enghydro/index.html
2. Chow, V.T., Maidment, D.R., Mays, L.W. (1988). Applied Hydrology. McGraw-Hill Book Company.