SEV322 - Hydrology and Hydraulics
Unit details
Year: | 2024 unit information |
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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 |
Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: James Gong |
Prerequisite: | SEM218 |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | SEV222 |
Typical 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. |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 1 hour seminar per week, 2 x 2 hour practical experiences (laboratories) per trimester. |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 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
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 storm water management, water sensitive urban design, designing of irrigation channels etc.
ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
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ULO1 | Describe hydrological processes that are involved in earth's natural water cycle and the influence of those processes on catchments and engineering structures. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO2 | Identify, quantify and use hydrological processes in practical situations such as catchment water balance. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO3 | Describe the hydraulic behaviours observed in open channel flows. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO4 | Identify, define and use hydraulic properties of flow in open channels when designing canals, sluice gates and energy dissipating structures. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO5 | Apply hydrology and hydraulic principles to real world civil engineering problems such as storm water management and design and analysis of open channels. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
Assessment
Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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Assessment 1 Online quizzes | Four online quizzes (multiple choice, multi-select, arithmetic) | 20% (4 x 5%) | Weeks 3, 5, 8, and 10 |
Assessment 2 Problem solving tasks | Two problem solving tasks (hydraulics and hydrology) | 60% (2 x 30%) | Weeks 6 and 11 |
Assessment 3 Laboratory reports | Two individual scientific written reports for the hydraulic and hydrological practicals, respectively (1500 word maximum each) | 20% (2 x 10%) | Scheduled submission dates |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
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.
Learning Resource
Prescribed text(s): Subramanya, K., Flow in Open Channels, 2019, 5th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, Chennai, India (available as an e-Book in the Deakin Library).
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SEV322
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. A future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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