Environmental / Water Resources Engineering

Water resources engineering includes engineering for water supply and water excess management. This focus area covers the analysis and design of systems that control quantity, timing and distribution of water to meet the needs of our community. The water resources engineering is associated with hydrologic and hydraulic processes. Understanding the fundamentals of fluid mechanics is key to understand these processes. The topics that are covered in this focus area are the application of principles of pipe flow, open channel flow, water pumps, groundwater hydraulics, hydraulic structures, flood frequency analysis, reservoir characteristics and design, open channel flow applications, water project design, model studies, and pump and turbine hydraulics, among others. It is expected that graduates will be able to analyze a water resources project under practical and theoretical conditions, solve a problem in civil engineering practice that includes the various and multiple aspects of the discipline, use modern tools for analyzing a water resources system and be able to analyze and evaluate results from computer software.

Environmental / Water Resources Engineering MS Curriculum