HENG - 4193

WSEE - 5193

Flood and Drought Management

Environmental Impact Assessment

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Department of Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering

Course Number
Course Title
Degree Program
Module
Module Coordinator
Lecturer
ECTS Credits
Contact Hours (per week)

HENG 5191
River Engineering
B.Sc. in Hydraulic and Water Resource Engineering
Water Resources & Environment

4 Cp
Lecture
2

Tutorial
3

Practice or Laboratory
0

Home study
2

Objective:
To introduce students to the mechanisms of sediment
transport and enable them design stable channels and river
training works.
Outcomes:
Course Objectives &
Competences to be Acquired
Students will be able
To have knowledge on river morphology and regime
To determine quantity and type of sediment that can
be transported by a river.
To design river training structures.

Course Description/Course
Contents

Pre-requisites
Semester
Status of Course
Teaching & Learning
Methods
Assessment/Evaluation &
Grading System
Attendance Requirements
Literature

River characteristics; river hydraulics; river morphology and

regime; sediment transports: origin and properties of
sediment, bed load, suspended load, wash load and total load
transport; river training and flood control; erosion protection
and discharge control; preliminary bridge Design: Data
collection, site selection types of bridge, Determination of
scour near bridge and abutments.
Open channel hydraulics
Year 5, Semester I
Compulsory
Lectures and tutorial
Continues Assesment....50%
Final exam..50%
A student must attend at least 80 % of the classes
1. Engelhund, F. and Hansen, E. (1967) A monograph on

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sediment

transport, Teknisk Forlarg, Copenagen,

Danemark
2. Meyer-Peter, E. and Muller, R. (1948) Formulas for
bed-load transport, Proceedings of the 2nd
International Meeting, Association for hydraulic
research, Stockholm, Sweden

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