ENCN444-17S1 (C) Semester One 2017

Water Infrastructure and Design

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2017
End Date: Sunday, 25 June 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 3 March 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 19 May 2017

Description

Hydraulic design and modelling of water infrastructure including channels, hydraulic structures, pipe networks, and wells.

Learning Outcomes

  • Objectives:
    Enable students to:
  • Design water infrastructure systems from source to sink.
  • Be motivated and confident about applying hydraulic principles to solving problems related to surface water distribution, pipe networks, transients, and hydraulic structures.
  • To be able to recognize, describe and apply various models of unsteady flow in pressurized pipeline systems
  • Have sufficient familiarity with commonly-used relevant tools [hydraulic modelling software packages and hydrologic prediction tools] to be able to continue to use these or readily adapt to related ones.
  • Be aware of the limitations of their own understanding and knowledge of hydraulic systems.
  • Foster and awareness of the importance of, and an active engagement in, life-long learning skills

Prerequisites

Restrictions

ENCI444, ENNR404, ENNR407

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Tom Cochrane

Lecturer

Pedro Lee

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Assignment 1 (term 1) 15% Hydraulic Design/modelling
final exam 40%
Test 35%
Tutorial (term 2) 10%


While the bulk of the assessment for this paper lies in the test and the final exam (total 60%), you will only perform well if you have thoroughly prepared for them by working through the problems given in lectures and the assignments.  

1. You cannot pass this course unless you achieve a mark of at least 40% in each of the mid-semester test and the final exam. A student who narrowly fails to achieve 40% in either the test or exam, but who performs very well in the other, may be eligible for a pass in the course.

2. All assignments must be submitted by the due date. Late submissions will not be accepted. If a student is unable to complete and submit an assignment by the deadline due to personal circumstances beyond their control they should discuss this with the lecturer involved as soon as possible.

3. It is important to remember that copying another person’s work, and submitting that work as your own is plagiarism. This practice is unethical and may result in disciplinary action being taken against you. For assignments that are done in groups, it is important that all students in the group play an equal role in completing the assessment.

4. Students repeating the course must undertake all parts of the course.

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Chaudhry, M. Hanif; Applied hydraulic transients ; 2nd ed; Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1987.

Mays, L W; Water resources engineering ; 2nd ed; Wiley, 2011.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,038.00

International fee $5,000.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

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