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Water Resources Management
183455
Description
Water balance
- Basics and elements of the water balance
- Balancing
Anthropogenic influences on the water balance (quantity)
- Settlement development and its effects on runoff
- Water supply from surface and underground sources
- Storage facilities and their competing uses
- Hydropower (dams, barrages and pumped storage power plants)
Anthropogenic influences on water quality
- Material flows and their quantification
- European Water Framework Directive
European Water Framework Directive
Ecological status of water bodies
- Biological water quality
- Water structure quality
- Morphological environmental objectives
- Repopulation potential
Potential hazard to water bodies
- List of priority substances
- Input paths (point source and diffuse)
- Hydraulic pressures
Measures and action programmes
- Renaturation
- Passability
- Reduction of point loads
- Improvement of watercourse structure
Effects of climate change on water management planning
- Return periods of design events
- Dealing with ‘urban flash floods’
- Increase in ‘millennium floods’
Current topics in water management
ECTS credits
5
Teaching Language
Deutsch
Exam Language
Deutsch
Support Materials Language
Deutsch
Basic Learning Outcomes
  • Ability to efficiently manage human resources in the design and execution of Civil Engineering projects. 
    (F12_G7 - Basic learning outcome G7 (related to final LO F12) - CEB - Ability to efficiently manage human resources in the design and execution of Civil Engineering projects. )
  • Ability to properly communicate technical issues in the Civil Engineering field. 
    (F12_G8 - Basic learning outcome G8 (related to final LO F12) - CEB - Ability to properly communicate technical issues in the Civil Engineering field. )
  • Ability to integrate information from different sources into practical knowledge 
    (F12_G16 - Basic learning outcome G16 (related to final LO F12) - CEB - Ability to integrate information from different sources into practical knowledge )
  • Ability to solve linear algebra; geometry; differential geometry; differential and integral calculus; differential and partial derivative equations; numerical methods; numerical algorithms; statistics and optimization.
    (F1_B1 - Basic learning outcome B1 (related to final LO F1) - CEB - Ability to solve linear algebra; geometry; differential geometry; differential and integral calculus; differential and partial derivative equations; numerical methods; numerical algorithms; statistics and optimization.)
  • Ability to basic use of computer programs, operating systems, data sets and computer languages applicable for Civil Engineering purposes.
    (F2_B3 - Basic learning outcome B3 (related to final LO F2) - CEB - Ability to basic use of computer programs, operating systems, data sets and computer languages applicable for Civil Engineering purposes.)
  • Ability to identify the basic concepts of surface and subsurface hydrology. 
    (F5_C8 - Basic learning outcome C8 (related to final LO F5) - CEB - Ability to identify the basic concepts of surface and subsurface hydrology. )
  • Ability to evaluate the functioning of environmental ecosystems and environmental pressures and factors. 
    (F5_H2 - Basic learning outcome H2 (related to final LO F5) - CEB - Ability to evaluate the functioning of environmental ecosystems and environmental pressures and factors. )
Final Learning Outcomes
  • Ability to formulate and solve PROBLEMS PERTINENT TO MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS, AND CHEMISTRY INTRINSIC TO CIVIL ENGINEERING 
    (F1 - CEB - Ability to formulate and solve PROBLEMS PERTINENT TO MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS, AND CHEMISTRY INTRINSIC TO CIVIL ENGINEERING )
  • Ability to perform COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN AND ANALYSIS 
    (F2 - CEB - Ability to perform COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN AND ANALYSIS )
  • Ability to apply WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING PRACTICES 
    (F5 - CEB - Ability to apply WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING PRACTICES )
  • Ability to demonstrate professionalism within the realm of civil engineering employment 
    (F12 - CEB - Ability to demonstrate professionalism within the realm of civil engineering employment )
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