421-420 Hydraulic Engineering Design

421-316 Engineering Hydraulics and Hydrology.

On completion of this unit students should have gained an understanding of the hydraulics of water supply/treatment/disposal and applied this knowledge to the design of common hydraulic structures.

Topics covered include urban stormwater drainage systems; urban water supply, treatment and distribution systems; water supply pipeline design and surge protection; sewerage, wastewater collection and treatment; and hydraulic design of common hydraulic structures.

One 2-hour written examination (50%), practice classes, design report and assignments (up to a total of 25 pages inclusive of diagrams, tables, computations and computer output) (50%).