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- Undergraduate major in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Kanae Shinjiro
- Class Format
- Lecture
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- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Mon1-2(M111) Thr1-2(M111)
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- Course number
- CVE.B311
- Credits
- 2
- Academic year
- 2016
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2016/4/27
- Lecture notes updated
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- Language used
- Japanese
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Course description and aims
River engineering was and has been an empirical engineering, but scientific knowledge and methodology are also applied in modern river engineering. In this course, students will study the basics of terrestrial hydrological cycle for river engineering. Then, students will study three major aspects of rivers and water resources management: flood protection, water utilization, and the environment, that leads to a comprehensive understanding of rivers and water resources. Specifically, topics/themes include hydrological cycle and runoff analysis, flood control planning and statistical hydrology, water disasters from the past to the current, water resources and water use, and the environment and development of rivers and water-resources. In addition, latest important topics such as climate change and water will be introduced.
This course has two aims. The first aim is to let students obtain a set of basic and comprehensive knowledge and perspective at undergraduate level for each topic/theme written above, The second aim is to let students to experience for himself/herself the following three exercises individually or by group: development of runoff modeling, application of hydrological statistics to actual data and its discussion, and investigation on an actual example of river disaster and management.
Student learning outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) obtain a set of basic and comprehensive knowledge and perspective at undergraduate level for each topic/theme: hydrological cycle and runoff analysis, flood control planning and statistical hydrology, water disasters from the past to the current, water resources and water use, and the environment and development of rivers.
2) explain comprehensively river and water resources management in terms of three major aspects: flood protection, water utilization, and the environment, based on basic knowledge and perspective written in 1).
3) complete three important exercises individually or by group: development of runoff modeling, application of hydrological statistics to actual data, and investigation on an actual example of river disaster and management.
Keywords
River, Hydrology, Water cycle, Water resources, Water disasters
Competencies that will be developed
| ✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
Lecture, discussion and small-exam are mixed in every lesson. There are opportunities of group-based investigation and presentation. Students are requested to individually compute a rainfall-runoff model and an extreme value analysis. Because of the nature of river that is inherently integrated and complicated, topics of 1-15 may be integrated in every lesson.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction to river engineering | Understand the targets and objectives of this class. |
| Class 2 | Terrestrial hydrological cycle and rainfall-runoff modeling 1 (hydrological processes, rational method, storage function method) | Understand basic runoff models, based on basic understanding on terrestrial hydrological cycle, |
| Class 3 | Terrestrial hydrological cycle and rainfall-runoff modeling 2 (tank model, distributed model) | Understand two more important runoff models, based on basic understanding on terrestrial hydrological cycle, |
| Class 4 | History of flood control and flood damage mitigation in Japan | Understand the history of flood control and flood damage mitigation in Japan. |
| Class 5 | Design flood | Understand the concept and examples of design flood (without and with artificial regulations). |
| Class 6 | Statistical hydrology 1 (extreme value analysis) | Understand extreme value analysis that can be applied to heavy rainfall data or similar data. |
| Class 7 | Statistical hydrology 2 (heavy precipitation and drought) | Apply extreme value analysis to heavy rainfall data or drought data or similar data. |
| Class 8 | Examples of modern water disasters 1 | Examine recent examples of water disasters (mostly, events in Japan, within a year or so). |
| Class 9 | Examples of modern water disasters 2 | Continue to examine recent examples of water disasters. |
| Class 10 | Sediment transport and river bed deformation | Understand basic physics and representative examples of sediment transport and river bed deformation. |
| Class 11 | Hydraulic structures and dams | Understand major examples of hydraulic structures and dams. |
| Class 12 | Water resources and water use | Understand major examples of water resources management and water use in Japanese rivers. |
| Class 13 | River environment | Study major examples of river environmental issues. |
| Class 14 | Climate change and river | Study what may happen for floods, droughts, and water resources under anthropogenic climate change. |
| Class 15 | Recent topics in river management | Actively investigate and discuss on recent topics in river management. |
Textbook(s)
Not specified
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Handouts will be distributed in the class.
Assessment criteria and methods
Reports (or exams) will be assigned to three themes: hydrological cycle and runoff analysis, water disasters and flood control planning, and the environment and development of rivers/water-resources. Each theme will cover approximately 1/3. For each theme, several small reports and small exams rather than a single report may be assigned. Assessment is based on the quality of the written reports (or answer sheets).
Related courses
- CVE.B201 ： Hydraulics I
- CVE.B202 ： Hydraulics II
- CVE.G310 ： Water Environmental Engineering
- CVE.B310 ： Coastal Engineering and Oceanography
- CVE.G230 ： Environmental Planning Project
- TSE.A312 ： Introduction to global and local ecology
- TSE.A315 ： Introduction to Meteorology
- TSE.A316 ： Introduction to Natural Disaster Science and Engineering
- TSE.A314 ： Introduction to Water and Mass Transport in theEnvironment
- CVE.B401 ： Water Resource Systems
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
None required
Other
Nothing special
