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Undergraduate Courses

Hydraulic/Water Resources Emphasis

Graduate students may take, subject to university requirements and faculty advisor approval, related undergraduate courses. These courses may serve to broaden a student's background and provide prerequisite material needed for advanced courses. Undergraduate courses eligible for graduate enrollment include:

• CE 416 - Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory (PDF)
• CE 418 - Hazardous Waste Engineering (PDF)
• CE 419 - Hazardous Waste Treatment (PDF)
• CE 450 - Hydraulic Design (PDF)
• CE 475 - Groundwater Hydrology (PDF)

 

Graduate Courses

• CE 517 Unsteady Open-Channel Flow 3 Prereq C E 451. Derivation of governing equations; explicit and implicit finite difference methods; computational procedures; stability and convergence.
• CE 518 Hazardous Waste Engineering 3 or 4 Prereq graduate standing. Graduate-level counterpart of C E 418; additional requirements. Credit not granted for both C E 418 and 518.
• CE 519 (546) Hazardous Waste Treatment 3 Prereq C E 518. Graduate-level counterpart of C E 419; additional requirements. Credit not granted for both C E 419 and 519.
• CE 547 Principles of Environmental Engineering 3 Prereq C E 315, 341; Math 315. Principles of chemistry, microbiology, thermodynamics, material and energy balances, and transport phenomena, for environmental engineers.
• CE 550 Intermediate Fluid Mechanics 3 Prereq C E 315. Basic flow equations; Navier-Stokes equations; similitude, potential flow, boundary layers, turbulence, and diffusion; uniform and non-uniform conduit flow; drag and lift. Cooperative course taught by WSU, open to UI students (CE 525).
• CE 551 Open Channel Flow 3 Graduate-level counterpart of C E 451; additional requirements. Credit not granted for both C E 451 and 551.
• CE 552 Advanced Topics in Hydraulic Engineering V 1-3 May be repeated for credit; cumulative maximum 6 hours. Prereq C E 315. Fall 1999 topics: Surface water contaminant transport modeling, physics and mathematical description of fish movement.. Cooperative course taught by WSU, open to UI students (CE 527).
• CE 556 Numerical Modeling in Fluid Mechanics 3 Prereq C E 315. Fundamental concepts in development of numerical models for fluid flow with applications to steady and unsteady flows.
• CE 560 Advanced Hydrology 3 Graduate-level counterpart of C E 460; additional requirements. Credit not granted for both C E 460 and 560. Components of the hydrologic cycle; conceptual models; watershed characteristics; probability/statistics in data analysis; hydrographs; computer models; and design applications.
• CE 561 Water Resources Systems 3 Concepts in water development; coordination of development of other natural resources; systems approach and optimization techniques. Cooperative course taught jointly by WSU and UI (CE 523).
• CE 562 Water Resources Planning 3 Prereq C E 351. Design and feasibility studies in water supply, power, flood problems, navigation, irrigation, recreation. Cooperative course taught jointly by WSU and UI (CE 524).
• CE 569 Field Methods in Hydrogeology 2 (1-3) Theory and practice of acquisition of hydrogeologic data, emphasizing design and execution of field experiments. Same as Geol 569.
• CE 577 Advanced Groundwater Hydraulics 3 Prereq Geol 475, Math 315. Modeling of subsurface flow in saturated, unsaturated, and multifluid systems; analytic and numerical solutions techniques; review of statistical geohydrologic methods.
• CE 579 Groundwater Geochemistry V 2-4 May be repeated for credit; cumulative maximum 4 hours. Processes controlling the quality and chemistry of groundwater: applications to geologic and water resource problems. Same as Geol 579.
• CE 580 Graduate Seminar 1 May be repeated for credit; cumulative maximum 2 hours. Lectures and reports on current developments in research and practice.
• CE 583 Engineering Aspects of Environmental Chemistry V 2-4 Prereq C E 442. Chemical principles as applied to water supply and pollution control engineering. Cooperative course taught by WSU, open to UI students (CE 553).
• CE 584 Engineering Aspects of Microbiology 2 (1-3) Prereq C E 583. The role of microorganisms; bacteria, algae, fungi, viruses and protozoa in water and wastewater systems. Cooperative course taught by WSU, open to UI students (CE 538).
• CE 586 Bioremediation of Hazardous Waste 3 Prereq C E 584. Applications of bioremediations to in situ subsurface treatment of hazardous waste; subsurface microbial degradation as related to microbal ecology.
• CE 588 Atmospheric Turbulence and Air Pollution Modeling 3 Prereq C E 571. Physical aspects of atmospheric turbulence, theoretical developments in atmospheric diffusion, and applied computer modeling with regulatory and research models.

 

University of Idaho Courses

• CE 519 Fluid Transients (3 cr). Same as ME 519. Alt/yrs. Development of concepts and modeling techniques for unsteady flow of liquid and gas in piping systems; extensive computer programming used to develop tools for analysis, design, and control of transients. Prereq; Math 310, Engr 335.
• CE 521 Sedimentation Engineering (3 cr). Intro to river morphology and channel responses; fluvial processes of erosion, entrainment, transportation, and deposition of sediment. Prereq: CE 428 or permission.
• CE 528 Stochastic Hydrology (3 cr). Analyses and evaluation of hydrologic data and time series; application of stochastic models to data generation and record extension (daily and storm precipitation, monthly and annual streamflows); regression and autoregression analyses; extensive computer applications for data analysis and synthesis. Prereq: CE 321, introductory statistics course.
• CE 529 Natural Channel Flow (3 cr). Hydraulics of nonuniform flow in irregular channels, unsteady flow, and flow routing. See AgE 555.
• CE ID&WS546 Finite Element Analysis (3 cr). Same as ME 549. WSU C E 532. Formulation of theory from basic consideration of mechanics; applications to structural engineering, solid mechanics, soil and rock mechanics; fluid flow. Prereq: ME 341 or CE 342.

 

 

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