CEE 3430 Engineering Hydrology - Spring 2011
Utah State University

Instructor: David Tarboton, ENGR 225, 797 3172, dtarb@usu.edu

Lectures: Monday, Wed, Fri 1:30 to 2:20, ENGR 302
Office Hours: Tuesday 3-4 pm, Fri 2:30-3:30 pm. Also most days immediately following lecture. You may send me email any time to ask a question or request a meeting outside these times. You may also access my calendar online to ascertain my availability.

Texts:

• Bedient, P. B., W. C. Huber and B. E. Vieux, (2008), Hydrology and Floodplain Analysis, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 795 p.
• Tarboton, D. G., (2003), Rainfall Runoff Processes, Online module and workbook prepared for the National Weather Service COMET outreach program, http://www.engineering.usu.edu/dtarb/rrp.html.
  

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of the course you should be able to apply the principles of hydrology to solve engineering hydrology design problems involving hydrologic modeling and analysis. 

Basic material

• Syllabus
• Schedule. Note. The schedule has been updated 4/20/11.
• Blackboard. You may use Blackboard to ask questions (post a discussion items) and interact with me and other students in the class.

Powerpoint Slides and Lecture Material

• 1/10/11. Introduction, Objectives, Hydrologic Cycle, Water Balance.
• 1/12/11. Weather and Precipitation. Example Spreadsheet.
• 1/14/11. Finishing Precipitation. Streamflow and Measurements.
• 1/19/11. Evaporation. Example Spreadsheet.
• 1/21/11. Infiltration (Intro).
• 1/24/11. Hydrologic analysis - Unit hydrographs.
• 1/26/11. Synthetic unit hydrographs.
• 1/28/11. S-Curve, SCS Dimensionless Hydrograph and SCS Curve Number.
• 1/31/11. Applications of Unit Hydrographs. Example.
• 2/2/11. Example continued. Example complete from end of class.
• 2/4/11. Snow.
• 2/7/11. Where does water go when it rains? (McDonnell).
• 2/9/11. Hydrologic Simulation Models. HEC-HMS Bare Essentials Tutorial and Example.
• 2/11/11. Class will meet in the PC Lab ENGR 307 for hands on HEC work.
• 2/14/11. HEC HMS and Problem Solving.
• 2/16/11. Test preparation problem solving. Solutions spreadsheet.
• 2/18/11. Test 1 Solution.
• 2/22/11. Frequency Analysis. Blacksmith Fork Excel example. BlacksmithForkPeak.txt
• 3/2/11. Flood Routing. Reservoir Example. HMS Example.
• 3/4/11. Muskingham Example. Reservoir Example 2 min step.
• 3/14/11. Runoff Generation.
• 3/18/11. Water in Soil.
• 3/21/11. Grain Size Distribution Example.
• 3/23/11. Infiltration.
• 3/25/11. Spring Runoff.
• 3/28/11. Questionnaire results. Infiltration Handout.
  • Correction to error in Darcy Experiment Example Animation.
• 4/4/11. Short Horton Infiltration Example spreadsheet.
• 4/6/11. TOPMODEL.
• 4/8/11. Practice Test. (Practice test solution. I suggest trying to do the problems yourself first before referring to the solution)
• 4/11/11. Test 2.
• 4/13/11. Test 2 outcome.
• 4/15/11. Groundwater.
• 4/20/11. Spring Runoff update.
• 4/22/11. Kevin Werner from Colorado Basin River Forecast Center talking about NOAA operational streamflow forecasting.
• 4/25/11. Jay Cederberg (USGS Technician will show stream gauging). Meet at USGS Streamflow Gauge upstream of 1st dam. See map. Discharge Measurement Field Form.
• 4/27/11. Practice Exam.
• 4/29/11. Practice Exam Solution. I suggest trying to do the problems yourself first before referring to the solution)
• 5/2/11. Final Exam. 11:30 to 1:20. Open book, open notes. Questions. Solution.

Note on opening downloaded files: Some of the linked files are microsoft office files, ending in extensions .xlsx (Excel), .xlsm (Excel with macro's), .pptx (powerpoint). Microsoft Office uses a compressed zip format for these and sometimes browsers identify these as zip files rather than of the appropriate office type with the correct extension. If this occurs when you download these files you may see a zip file containing folders with xml files rather than the single file you are expecting. You should in these cases rename the file to have the appropriate extension (.xlsx, .xlsm or .pptx etc) or  use "save target as" or "save link as" (depending on browser) to save the file with one of these extensions.  Then it should open in Microsoft Office..

Homework

• Homework 0. Information Sheet. Due 1/12/11.
• Homework 1. Hydrologic Principles. Due 1/19/11.
• Homework 2. Evaporation. Due 1/24/11.
• Homework 3. Hydrologic Analysis. Due 1/31/11.
• Homework 4. Design Hydrograph Calculation. Due 2/9/11. Note - by student request the due date has been deferred to 2/9/11.
• Homework 5. HEC-HMS. Due 2/16/11.
• Homework 6. Frequency Analysis. Due 2/28/11. Data: LoganPeak.txt. Note - by student request and to allow time to explain probability plots the due date has been deferred to 3/2/11.
• Homework 7. Flood Routing. Due 3/14/11.
• Homework 8. Runoff Generation. Due 3/21/11. (Only Chapters 1-3 of Online Module)
• Mid course questionnaire. Due 3/25/11.
• Homework 9. Water in Soils. Due 3/28/11.
• Homework 10. Infiltration and TOPMODEL. Due 4/8/11. Note - due date deferred to April 8. Chapter 6 quiz optional.
• Homework 11. Test 2 as homework and Groundwater. Due 4/20/11.