SEV322 - Hydrology and Hydraulics
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Offering information: | Available at the Burwood (Melbourne) campus from 2026 |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | SEM218 |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | SEV222 |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 1 x 1 hour seminar per week, 2 x 2 hour practical experiences (laboratories) per trimester. |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | Online independent and collaborative learning including a 1 x 1 hour seminar per week. Students are required to attend and participate in practical experience (laboratory) activities at the Waurn Ponds (Geelong) Campus for the scheduled sessions during the trimester intensive activities as detailed in the unit site. |
Content
Sustainable water management is critical to enable sustainable development of our society. This unit will describe hydrological processes that are involved in earth's natural water cycle and the influence of those processes on catchments and engineering structures. It also will describe the hydraulic behaviours observed in open channel flows. Further, the unit will help to identify, define and use hydrological processes in practical situations such as catchment water balance and hydraulic properties of flow in open channels when designing canals, sluice gates, energy dissipating structures etc. Classification of open channel flow surface profiles as well as measurements in a laboratory-scale flume will be carried out. Thus, this unit will provide knowledge to apply hydrology and hydraulic principles to real world engineering such as sustainable water resource management, storm water management, designing of irrigation channels, and water sensitive urban design etc.
Hurdle requirement
To be eligible to obtain a pass in this unit, students must achieve a mark of at least 50% in the combined practical experience (laboratory) reports.
Unit Fee Information
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