HYDROLOGY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: MATH 221 , 217, graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Differentiate between representations of runoff, streamflow, evapotranspiration, precipitation, infiltration, soil moisture, and snowpack based on physical principles and empirical simplifications Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Derive quantitative relationships describing terrestrial water and energy fluxes Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Formulate mathematical models of the water terrestrial water cycle at point and watershed scales Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of hydrologic predictions for addressing real-world water resources challenges, including in a changing climate Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Contrast water resources engineering methods with more complex hydrologic and hydraulic methods Audience: Undergraduate 6. Identify the geophysical conditions under which specific hydrologic assumptions are valid Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Differentiate between representations of runoff, streamflow, evapotranspiration, precipitation, infiltration, soil moisture, and snowpack based on physical principles and empirical simplifications Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Derive quantitative relationships describing terrestrial water and energy fluxes Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Formulate mathematical models of the water terrestrial water cycle at point and watershed scales Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of hydrologic predictions for addressing real-world water resources challenges, including in a changing climate Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Contrast water resources engineering methods with more complex hydrologic and hydraulic methods Audience: Undergraduate 6. Identify the geophysical conditions under which specific hydrologic assumptions are valid Audience: Graduate