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Course Description This course provides the fundamentals for hydropower production.  The course includes an overview of hydrology and physics of hydropower engineering, power, head, and flow-rate.  In addition, the course covers traditional system components including spillways, gates, valves, trashracks, penstocks, generators, hydro batteries, and governors. Objectives The course is intended to enable the student to:...
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Course Description The course provides fundamental knowledge and practical understanding for the common statistical techniques of data processing in hydrology and water engineering.  This knowledge and understanding must allow the students to select and apply most appropriate techniques to summarize and organize data. It also allows them to have an insight in the limitations of...
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Course Description This course is intended to build on the earlier courses of hydrology and water resources engineering by discussing more of the recent applications in water resources management. These include advanced techniques for groundwater assessment, integrated water resource management, remote sensing techniques and global information systems, hydropower engineering, river engineering and rainwater harvesting. Objectives...
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Course Description This course is intended to make students appreciate the advanced statistical methods and systems approach in the analysis and design of hydrologic problems. Urban runoff models will be used to develop storm water management systems. Climate systems will be modelled and projected changes, with their impacts and mitigation measures discussed. Models for water...
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Course Description This course is intended to make students appreciate the availability of water, its current use and the challenges; climate change; introductory water resources planning; meteorology; the hydrological cycle and processes of precipitation, surface runoff, infiltration, interception, depression storage, evapo-transpiration; their estimation and analysis. It will include the carbon cycle; drought, its effects and...
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