Program Overview

Graduate Certificate in Hydraulic Design

The Graduate Certificate in Hydraulic Design is designed to provide students with an introduction to applied hydraulic design concepts and practices. This three-course series instills the key core competencies and skills needed to practice as a hydraulic engineer. Students learn how, and why, to apply aspects of hydraulic structures. This certificate program prepares engineers or other professionals in the water, energy, or environmental resources to lead hydraulic design projects from concept creation to implementation.

Overview

Whenever water must be managed, moved or stored, some form of hydraulic design is required to facilitate these processes.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion, students will be able to:

1. Relate the definition, application, and essential importance of hydraulic engineering to the completion of many civil & environmental engineering projects.
2. Extend hydraulic-engineering knowledge substantially beyond the baccalaureate level.
3. Describe the roles of various hydraulic structures and systems.
4. Explain the main hydraulics processes associated with the performance of hydraulic structures and systems.
5. Choose pertinent instrumentation and methods for measuring and monitoring the hydraulics processes associated with hydraulic structures and systems.
6. Gain an advanced-level understanding of key concepts and tool sets required in hydraulic engineering as applied in the development of many engineering projects.

Course Requirements

• Select 9 credits from the following:
  • CIVE 511: Coastal Engineering
  • CIVE 512: Irrigation Systems Design
  • CIVE 513: Morphodynamic Modeling
  • CIVE 514: Hydraulic Structures/Systems
  • CIVE 556: Slope Stability, Seepage, and Earth Dams
  • CIVE 571: Pipeline Engineering and Hydraulics
  • CIVE 612: Open Channel Flow
  • CIVE 613: River Restoration Design
• Program Total Credits: 9

Additional Information

• This certificate may have courses in common with other graduate certificates. A student may earn more than one certificate, but a given course may be counted only in one certificate.
• Additional coursework may be required due to prerequisites, effective Fall 2023.