Geographic Information Systems Applications in Civil Engineering GISE 5304

Course description:

The course covers GIS principles and applications used in hydrological analysis such as watershed and rainfall/runoff analysis.  Applications in hydraulics including use of GIS in design, analysis and management of water supply networks, storm-water drainage systems and sewer networks.  Using GIS in environmental engineering problems such as contamination of soil, air and water and risk analysis.  Use of GIS in traffic engineering.

Course Aims:

• The aim of this course is to train students to become proficient in usage of ArcGIS 10 software through extensive computer lab sessions, including applications in urban hydrologic modeling, urban stormwater management, nonpoint source pollution control, ecological assessment, utility and infrastructure management; water, sewer and transportation network analysis, and river basin management.
  

Course outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

• Utility Network Analyst in ArcGIS; building water networks in ArcCatalog; performing network analyses; developing network connectivity rules, network validation and editing
  
• ArcHydro Tools Extension; watershed and stream network delineation, building an Arc Hydro geometric network, flow tracing and analysis of hydrologic networks.
  
• GIS for estimating storm water pollutant mass loadings, regulatory issues in nonpoint source pollution, estimation of event mean concentrations, land use impacts on pollutant loadings, evaluation of BMPs, application of GIS.