Teaching

CE 351 – Water Resources Engineering (Spring 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)

• Application of fluid mechanics to hydraulic infrastructure, principles of open channel flow, and introduction to surface and groundwater hydrology. Topics include components of the hydrologic cycle, surface water runoff, pipe flow and pumps, groundwater flow, and open channel Flow. Prerequisite: CE 315 with a C or better; certified major in Civil Engineering or Construction Engineering

CE 460/560 – Advance Hydrology (Spring 2015, 2016)

CE 460 – Engineering Hydrology (Spring 2018)

• Components of the hydrologic cycle, conceptual models, watershed characteristics, probability/statistics in data analysis, hydrographs, computer models, design applications. Topics include rainfall-runoff analysis, river and reservoir routing, frequency analysis, urban hydrology, hydrologic design. Prerequisite: CE 351 with a C or better; certified major in Civil Engineering or Construction Engineering.

CE 543 – Stochastic Hydrology (Spring 2014, 2017)

• Basic concepts, methods, and applications of stochastic modeling of hydrological processes, data-assimilation and uncertainty analysis techniques to optimally integrate observed data with models. Topics include Random variable and stochastic processes, review of probability and descriptive statistics, time series and frequency analysis, spatial series analysis, inverse modeling, uncertainty analysis and quantification, data-mining and data-assimilation.

CE 451/551 – Open Channel Flow (Fall 2017)

• Steady, non-uniform flow; controls and transitions in fixed-bed channels. Topics include fluid mechanics, specific energy, momentum applications, uniform flow, channel design, rapidly varied flow, flow resistance and turbulence, gradually varied flow, unsteady flow, and computational methods for channel flow modeling (HEC-RAS). Prerequisite: CE 351 with a C or better; certified major in Civil Engineering or Construction Engineering

CE 302 – Introduction to Surveying (Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, 2015, 2016)

• Surveying data collection, analysis and application; measuring distances and angles using total stations and global positioning systems; analysis of errors in measurements. Topics include distance and angle measurements, probability and statistics in surveying, projections and benchmark locations, mapping data collection, computer mapping – GIS software, leveling measurement and adjustments, traverse measurement and adjustments, earthwork calculations, horizontal and vertical alignments, Stakeout boundaries. Prerequisite: MATH 171 with a C or better; certified major in Civil Engineering or Construction Engineering.

CE 580/600 – Graduate Seminar (Every semester since Spring 2013)

• Seminar presentations, lectures and reports on current developments in research and practice.