The title of the course is water systems design. The catalog description is:
CE 3372. Water Systems Design (3:3:0).Prerequesite: CE 33051, 33542.Hydraulic analysis and design of municipal water distribution, stormwater collection, and wastewater collection systems. Oral and written presentations. (Writing Intensive)
The general scope of the course is:
The graded components of the course are:
The course title is Water Systems Design, so a natural question is what is meant by a water system? In this course it refers to a water distribution system that conveys raw or treated water to customers, a storm water collection system that conveys storm water away from infrastructure to reduce flooding damages and activities of daily life inconvenience,and wastewater collection systems that convey wastewater to treatment facilities for eventual release of the water back into the environment (or intentional reuse).
Water systems can be classified into three main categories (Chin, 2006; Mays, 2011):
Spatial and temporal distribution of surface runoff from rainfall events (drainage engineering)
Spatial and temporal distribution in support of human habitation
Systems to manage spatial and temporal distribution in support of non-human habitation
This brief photo essay is adapted from
“Historical Urban Water Systems” by Dr. Robert Pitt, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 http://54.243.252.9/ce-3372-webroot/1-Lessons/Lesson01/water-system-photo-tour.pdf
As we proceed through the tour, using the general definitions above, decide whether the picture represents a water control, water use, or environmental restoration system.
In this course we will use EPANET pipe network simulator software with the EPA supplied GUI, and SWMM 5+ drainage network simulator software with the EPA supplied GUI.
The remainder of the lesson demonstrates the installation of these tools:
EPANET with the GUI runs in the Windows environment and expects the underlying machine to be an x86-64 chipset. Generally this means an Intel- or AMD-based machine.
If you have a Chromebook or Raspberry Pi, or Macintosh EPANET as deployed from the EPA won't install directly. You can try WINE or other emulators but YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN!.
An alternative for these cases is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lightsail instance. The \$12/month service will run both softwares, and works like ordinary Windows.
To check the install, simply launch the program. If the GUI opens and renders the program is working. You can try a simple example if you wish.
Screen capture check
URL to EPANET by Example, load example 1
SWMM with the GUI runs in the Windows environment and expects the underlying machine to be an x86-64 chipset. Generally this means an Intel- or AMD-based machine.
If you have a Chromebook or Raspberry Pi, or Macintosh SWMM as deployed from the EPA won't install directly. You can try WINE or other emulators but YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN!.
An alternative for these cases is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lightsail instance. The \$12/month service will run both softwares, and works like ordinary Windows.
To check the install, simply launch the program. If the GUI opens and renders the program is working. You can try a simple example if you wish.
Screen capture check
URL to SWMM by Example, load example 1
Introduction to Water Resources Engineering Pages 1-33 from Wurbs,R.A., and James, W.P. (2002) Water Resources Engineering, Prentice Hall. http://54.243.252.9/ce-3372-webroot/3-Readings/Wurbs1-33/
Introduction to Water Resources Engineeirng Pages 1-11 from Mays, L.W. (2011) Water Resources Engineering, J. Wiley and Sons.http://54.243.252.9/ce-3372-webroot/3-Readings/Mays1-11/
Introduction to Water Resources Engineering Pages 1-8 from Chin, D. A. (2006) Water-Resources Engineering, Pearson-Prentice Hall. http://54.243.252.9/ce-3372-webroot/3-Readings/Chin1-8/