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course outline for UAT 491/691 Special problems in wet weather flow management UoG05661 Urban stormwater management UoG05662 Water pollution control planning |
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| 05-661 Urban stormwater management is a graduate
engineering course, comprising the six odd-numbered modules: 1.continuous
stormwater management models and model structure (SWMM and PCSWMM); 3.GIS data management, model complexity, catchment discretization and
process disaggregation (PCSWMMGIS); 5.routing in complex,
looped, partially surcharged pipe/channel networks (SWMM-EXTRAN); 7.pollutant build-up, washoff and transport (SWMM-RUNOFF, -TRANS);
9.pollutant removal in sewer networks, storage facilities and
treatment plants (DETPOND); 11.Sewer network designs for
the future; appropriate technologies for wastewater in urban infrastructure. More info is provided in module 0. 05-662 Water pollution control planning (for UCT students, CIV530Z is a programme of individual study on a specialized topic - examination by report/s and possibly an oral) is a graduate engineering course, comprising the six even-numbered modules below: 2. philosophy underlying public water pollution; 4. methods of developing area-wide pollution control plans and sustainable use plans in Ontario and elsewhere; 6. introduction to BMPs and the SLAMM model; 8. introduction to the WASP model; 10. Urban litter in drainage systems; 12. examination of quantitative and non-quantitative information in the context of planning. No field trips are planned for Jan-Apr 2000. More info is provided in module 0. |
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Current modules in this website are for January to April 2002. |
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module 0 Week 0 Welcome to the preliminary orientation module for two grad courses on urban water systems planning and management! contents
Organization: We hope that you find this web site friendly and effective. This is a highly innovative course structure - two courses are presented simultaneously on one website, and delivered in four countries. In this website the twelve modules are presented together so that participants may select modules that they most require, within their local instructional constraints. Work schedule: The tables at the end of the course outline page explain the following arrangements rather better than I can here. Each course takes about 12 weeks work, over the period Jan-Apr 2000. Work for each module is spread over 2 weeks. Guelph students for one course require six modules (one every 2 weeks), so for one course you take one module every 2 weeks. There is one free week, (Feb 20-27). Modules are simply numbered sequentially, each module being ready at the start of the week listed in the course outline. A module comprises: one lecture equivalent to about 5 h of lectures (5 to 10 pages of outline notes on this web); about 20 h of additional individual work (as a guideline this may include 10 h additional technical reading say 50 to 200 pages); one assignment (8 h), and one evaluation (2 h). This means 12.5 h per week total, or 150 h total for a UoG course. Note that you are encouraged to "mix-and-match" the modules to suit your own interests. Assignments: Typical assignments would be for example (a) a short paper synthesizing the additional reading, or (b) downloading a manual for a computer model, and writing an analysis of the program, or (c) downloading a program and its files, conducting a sensitivity analysis running the sample datafiles, and interpreting the results, or (d) some directed calculations. Two weeks are available for completion of each assignment. Each student independently presents the completed assignment on that student's own individual webpage. This part should take about 16 h. Evaluations: All students are also required to evaluate (critically review) all such submissions, and report these evaluations (crits) on the web. This part should take about 4 h. It is because of this requirement that the individual assignments must be rather smaller in scope than they would otherwise be (in a regular local grad course). We have added this part to ensure that the globally different ideas are shared among the participatng students, and to maximise the benefits of international collaboration. My hope is that you will make enduring contacts and friendships. Grading: An unstated objective of this course is that you learn to learn independently, and conduct effective research, using the web, and to present your results in the same medium. For successful completion, each individual posts all required assignments together with crits of colleagues' assignments on the web. Your work is graded by your own professor. However you should realise that the simple act of permanently publishing your report and exposing it to open peer-review usually results in and of itself in high quality work, warranting good marks. Your work will probably be mature and free of error. Writing web pages: You should first consider where to place your web pages. Probably your own University will help and will also host your page. The problem with them however is that they will delete your pages when you leave. For your own long-term benefit you should choose an ISP where you can leave your pages forever. That way you will start to build an international list of contacts right away. Either way you should be able to start right away, simply by talking to friends and searching the web for instructions. Building a web page is unbelievably simple - all you do is save your files as a .html file, and place it in the folder that your ISP gives you. The first file is called "index.html". That's it. See assignment A0 below. Benny Wan also wrote some helpful pages for UoG students. For examples of my 2nd year undergraduate students webpage assignments, click here. Right now (00/01/04) apart from this module (M0), no modules are ready.
You now qualify for membership of the TCKeefer Club, a select group who help one another get and do great jobs in informed water systems modelling. |
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