HYDRAULICS AND APPLIED FLUID MECHANICS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe flow measurement and conveyance piping, equipment, and appurtenances commonly used for fluids in environmental engineering Audience: Graduate 2. Describe and use concepts of conservation of mass and energy for fluid flow Audience: Graduate 3. Estimate energy losses in a given flow system for water, sludge/biosolids mixtures, other liquids, and gases under steady flow conditions Audience: Graduate 4. Describe problems of unsteady flow and transient flow conditions that may be encountered in environmental engineering and how such problems may be addressed by design Audience: Graduate 5. Examine and design full pipe flow and open channel flow systems, including pumping and blower/compressor systems, hydraulic control structures, piping and channels for fluids normally encountered in environmental engineering problems Audience: Graduate 6. Use modern engineering tools to solve hydraulics and applied fluid mechanics problems in environmental engineering Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe flow measurement and conveyance piping, equipment, and appurtenances commonly used for fluids in environmental engineering Audience: Graduate 2. Describe and use concepts of conservation of mass and energy for fluid flow Audience: Graduate 3. Estimate energy losses in a given flow system for water, sludge/biosolids mixtures, other liquids, and gases under steady flow conditions Audience: Graduate 4. Describe problems of unsteady flow and transient flow conditions that may be encountered in environmental engineering and how such problems may be addressed by design Audience: Graduate 5. Examine and design full pipe flow and open channel flow systems, including pumping and blower/compressor systems, hydraulic control structures, piping and channels for fluids normally encountered in environmental engineering problems Audience: Graduate 6. Use modern engineering tools to solve hydraulics and applied fluid mechanics problems in environmental engineering Audience: Graduate