This course gives an introduction to the impact of engineering and industrial activities on the environment. The lectures cover: basics of ecosystems, environmental balance, types of pollution, and types, sources, and limits of pollutants; in addition to fundamentals of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Pollution control technologies and examples of pollution from various engineering and industrial sectors are also covered. The course also includes a group term project.
Review of hydrograph analysis, hydrologic and hydraulic routing technques; rainfall-runoff modeling; flood foreacsting and frequency analysis; flood control
The limited water supply, increasing future demand and decrease in available water necessitate the importance of optimum use of water resources especially in arid/semi-arid regions. The purpose of this study was to examine reducing evaporation losses from open water bodies using palm-frond sheets as cover material. Four open constant-depth tanks with two different surface areas have been used in the study.
A combination of relative microgravity measurements at ground surface, and depth to water and water table measurements from adjacent wells were used to estimate geospatial variation of groundwater. A highly accurate portable Grav-Map gravimeter was used for gravimetric measurements at locations nearby a 42 well water table monitoring program. To efficiently correlate the two data sets, wells were clustered into five groups by geological unit and water saturation. Microgravity data was processed, interpreted, and correlated with both the depths to groundwater and the water table levels.
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