Water Resources Engineering I

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

absent

Course Contents

This course covers the description and scope of the course, water resources development, objectives and methods, river morphology: water collection basin, grading, slope, definitions, stream sediment movement: first movement, the critical shear stress and the Shields function, cross-sectional sizing based on critical shear stress, the bottom sediment transport mechanism, experimental studies, suspended sediment transport mechanism, determination of the concentration graph, measurement of the bottom and suspended solid material, river regulation: regulatory requirements and elements, the construction elements, the factors that determine the cross-section of stream, the protection of the base and the coasts, stream longitudinal section, slope change, fall of the base design, flood Control: flood losses; economic analysis, flood protection measures, flood delay pool, flood channel, flood embankments, calculation of flood recurrence interval, the project output and project risk, flood routing equations, flood routing in the delay pool, regulators: definitions and classifications, fixed linking: the planning and design, Crest profile, moving binding, planning, and design, door opening and flow relationship, fundamentals of irrigation and drainage.

Weekly Schedule

1) Description and scope of the course
2) Water resources development, objectives and methods
3) River morphology: water collection basin, grading, slope, definitions.
4) Stream sediment movement: first movement, the critical shear stress and the Shields function, cross-sectional sizing based on critical shear stress
5) The bottom sediment transport mechanism, experimental studies, suspended sediment transport mechanism, determination of the concentration graph
6) Measurement of the bottom and suspended solid material
7) River regulation: regulatory requirements and elements, the construction elements, the factors that determine the cross-section of stream
8) Midterm examination/Assessment
9) The protection of the base and the coasts, stream longitudinal section, slope change
10) Fall of the base design, flood control: flood losses; economic analysis, flood protection measures
11) Flood delay pool, flood channel, flood embankments, calculation of flood recurrence interval
12) The project output and project risk, flood routing equations, flood routing in the delay pool
13) Regulators: definitions and classifications, fixed linking: the planning and design, Crest profile
14) Moving binding, planning, and design, door opening and flow relationship
15) Fundamentals of irrigation and drainage
16) Final examination

Recommended or Required Reading

1- Su Kaynakları Mühendisliği, Yazarlar: Necati Ağıralioğlu, Cevat Erkek
2- Su Kaynakları Mühendisliği Uygulamaları, Yazarlar: Necati Ağıralioğlu, Cevat Erkek
3- Ders notları / Lecture notes
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Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Discussion
3) Drill and Practice
4) Case Study
5) Problem Solving

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	40%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	60%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required