336-614B Engineering Decision Analysis. Analysis of various kinds of uncertainties, use of expected values of random parameters in decision analysis, decision trees, utility theorem, updating probabilities with Baye's theorem, first and second order methods of analyzing uncertainty. 336-616A Advanced Soil and Water Engineering. Derivation of the governing partial differential equations for both steady and unsteady 3-dimensional flow of groundwater through a variably saturated, heterogeneous, anisotropic and deformable medium, finite difference techniques, computer programs, stochastic methods in soil and water engineering. 336-617B Special Drainage Applications.
Interceptor drains for watercourses and slopes.
Vertical and tube well drains. Drainage pump design, selection, operation and maintenance, vacuum pumps, compressors, inverted syphons and aqueducts. Disposal of drainage water, land locked areas, evaporation, drainage water re-use. Uses of solar and wind energy for pumping. Professors Broughton and Bonnell.