[vc_row el_class=”inner-body-content” css=”.vc_custom_1667203070151{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”COURSE OBJECTIVES” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1667203057500{margin-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text]To enable students to learn basic areas of hydrological engineering and principles of water management particularly in irrigated agriculture.[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLO)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]CLO:1 Gain the ability to learn basic areas of hydrological engineering.
CLO:2 Gain the ability to measure different hydrological quantities/components such as precipitation, stream flows, run-offs, and ground water.
CLO:3 Be able to develop design worksheets and use of software.[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”COURSE CONTENTS” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1667203044478{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]
- Introduction
- Hydrology
- Hydrologic cycle and the water balance equation
- Practical uses of hydrology
- Importance of hydrology
- Water Resources
- Planning and development of water resources projects
- Domestic
- Industrial
- Agricultural and other water usages
- Water resources in Pakistan
- Water Management
- Water management practices at basin level, canal level and farm level
- Meteorology
- The atmosphere and its composition, dew point and its measurement devices
- Saturation deficit
- The general circulation of wind system, the monsoons and western disturbances
- Measurement of air temperature, relative humidity, radiation, sunshine, atmospheric pressure and wind velocity & direction
- Precipitation
- Types of precipitation
- Factors necessary for the formation of precipitation
- Measurement of precipitation
- Interpretation of precipitation data
- Computation of average rainfall over a basin
- Evaporation and Transpiration
- Factors affecting evaporation
- Measurement of evaporation
- Evapo-transpiration
- Stream Flow
- Water Stage and its measurement
- Selection of site for stage recorder
- Selection of control and metering section
- Methods of measurement of stream flow
- Interpretation of stream flow data
- Return period
- Runoff & Hydrographs
- Factors affecting runoff
- Estimating the volume of storm runoff
- Characteristics of Hydrograph
- Components of a hydrograph
- Hydrograph separation
- Estimating the volume of direct runoff
- Introduction to unit hydrograph concept
- S-curve
- Application of probability in determining maxima/minima of discharge
- Types of histogram and distribution.
- Stream Flow Routing
- Introduction to floods and its causes
- Frequency and duration analysis
- Reservoir routing
- Channel routing
- Flood Control
- Introduction to Hydrological Modeling
- Groundwater
- Introduction
- Sources and discharge of ground water
- Water table and artesian aquifer
- Ground water hydraulics
- Pumping test
- Tube well technology
- Computer Application
- Development of design worksheets and use of software (if any)
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