UNIQUE NUMBER: 13876
Office: ECJ 8.612
Phone: Campus 471-4620, CRWR 471-0065
E-mail:
maidment@mail.utexas.edu
§ The movement of water through the phases of the hydrologic cycle
§ Modeling
of hydrologic systems
Midterm Exam = 20%
Oral Term Project = 10%
Written Term Project = 30%
Final Exam = 20%
Any problems, personal or
otherwise, affecting grades should be brought to the instructor's attention.
Important Dates
Last
day of the official add/drop period; after this date, changes in registration
require the approval of the chairman and usually the student's dean. (See
General Information, chapter 4, for required approvals.)
Last
day undergraduate students may register without the approval of the registrar.
Last
day graduate students may register and pay fees without the approval of the
graduate dean.
Twelfth
class day. Last day an undergraduate student may add a course except for rare
and extenuating circumstances.
Last
day a graduate student may, with the required approvals, add a course.
Payment
for added courses (add bill) due.
Last
day to drop a course for a possible refund.
Last
day to apply for a graduate degree.
Last
day an undergraduate may drop a course without a possible academic penalty. The
instructor must assign a "Q" symbol or a grade of F.
Spring
break.
Last
day an undergraduate student may, with the dean's approval, withdraw from the
University or drop a course except for urgent and substantiated, nonacademic
reasons.
Last
day to change registration in a course to or from the pass/fail or credit/no
credit basis.
Last
day to apply for an undergraduate degree.
Academic
advising for continuing and readmitted students for the summer session and the
fall semester.
Deadline
for master's degree candidates to have all incompletes removed from their
Programs of Work; grade change forms must be submitted by instructors to the
Office of Graduate Studies by this date.
Registration
for the summer session for continuing and readmitted students.
Registration
for the fall semester for continuing and readmitted students.
Master's
Report, Master's Thesis, and Doctoral Dissertation due.
Last
day a graduate student may, with the approval of the instructor, the graduate
adviser, and the graduate dean, drop a course. The instructor must assign a
"Q" symbol or a grade of F.
Spring semester final examinations except in the School of Law.
You are expected to “adopt” a hydrologic, hydraulic or other water resources model and examine its application during the semester. Possible candidate models include the HEC’s HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, HEC-FDA models, DHI’s Mike-11 or possibly other models from the Danish Hydraulic Institute; GMS, WMS or SMS from Brigham Young University, or models from the EPA Basins program, or another modeling system. You will be responsible for describing how your model functions through class presentations during the semester. During regular class presentations and discussion, we will explore the physical processes of the phases of the hydrologic cycle that are inherent in the way the models work, so as to achieve an understanding first of how the hydrologic cycle functions, and secondly how that functioning is translated into engineering applications in hydrology and water resources.
Your goal for the semester term project is to achieve a successfully applied and calibrated model that reasonably reproduces observed hydrologic data in some region of interest (a task easier said than done!). It is possible that two students may be working with the same model, but in this case, they must select different regions of interest for their application study. It is also possible for more than one student to be working in the same area of interest, but in this case, they must be using different models. You will be expected to present your term project orally and in written form in html at the end of the semester. An important aspect of the evaluation of your term project is not simply what you did but what you learned from what you did. I am expecting that you will deepen your understanding of the physical processes of the hydrologic cycle through this experience. I am also expecting that you will acquire a greater appreciation of what can be accomplished through hydrologic modeling, and perhaps also what cannot be accomplished, or what is difficult to accomplish.
Key dates are shown in italics in the schedule below.
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Topic |
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Tues Jan 16 |
Introduction to the course |
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Thurs Jan 18 |
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Tues Jan 23 |
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Thurs Jan 25 |
Land surface – atmospheric interaction |
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Tues Jan 30 |
Land surface – atmospheric interaction Turn in your modeling proposals |
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Thurs Feb 1 |
Land surface – atmospheric interaction |
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Tues Feb 6 |
Student presentations: what does
your model do?
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Thurs Feb 8 |
Movement of water from land to streams |
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Tues Feb 13 |
Movement of water from land to streams |
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Thurs Feb 15 |
Movement of water from land to streams |
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Tues Feb 20 |
Movement of water from land to streams |
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Thurs Feb 22 |
Student presentations: how does your model work? |
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Tues Feb 27 |
Student presentations: how does your model work? |
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Thurs Mar 1 |
Review for Midterm Exam |
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Tues Mar 6 |
Midterm Exam
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Thurs Mar 8 |
Movement of water within streams and rivers |
Spring Break!
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Tues Mar 20 |
Movement of water within streams and rivers |
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Thurs Mar 22 |
Movement of water within streams and rivers |
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Tues Mar 23 |
Movement of water within streams and rivers |
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Thurs Mar 29 |
Review of Progress with Term
Projects
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Tues Apr 3 |
Erosion and Sediment Transport |
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Thurs Apr 5 |
Erosion and Sediment Transport |
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Tues Apr 10 |
Risk analysis and uncertainty |
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Thurs Apr 12 |
Risk analysis and uncertainty |
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Tues Apr 17 |
Risk analysis and uncertainty |
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Thurs Apr 19 |
Risk analysis and uncertainty |
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Tues Apr 24 |
Term Project presentations
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Thurs Apr 25 |
Term Project presentations
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Tues May 1 |
Term Project presentations
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Thurs May 3 |
Course instructor evaluation and review for the final exam |
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Thursday May 12, 2-5PM |
Final examination |
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