CE Special Topics Courses (Spring 2010)

CE 497/597-001 Optimization in Water Resources (Leon):
This course will present the fundamentals of optimization techniques such as linear,
non-linear, dynamic programming and genetic algorithms and their applications to
various water resources engineering problems (e.g., water allocation in river systems,
flooding control, intelligent hydraulic structures, calibration of hydrological
parameters). In particular the course will be focused on multi-objective optimization
of water resource systems using genetic algorithms.

TOPICSTOPICSTOPICSTOPICS
1. Systems Analysis, Water Resource Systems
2. Objective functions and constraints for various water resources problems
3. Constrained and unconstrained optimization
4. Linear Programming, Integer programming, Mixed integer programming
5. Non-linear programming, gradient based methods
6. Dynamic Programming
7. Genetic Algorithms (50% of the semester will be allocated to this topic)
8. Multi-objective analysis
9. Stochastic Optimization
10. Introduction to solvers, Excel, NSGA-II and others

PREREQUISITES:
MATH 333 Differential Equations with Matrix Theory
MATH 360 Engineering Statistics or MATH 361 Probability and Statistics I
ENGR 330 Fluid Mechanics

June 5 - July 11

CE 497/597-001 GIS IN WATER RESOURCES (Sridhar):
Develop necessary skills and knowledge related to the applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in pre- and post-processing of model inputs and outputs, digital elevation models, flow direction and flow accumulation, spatial analysis and interpretation, Arc Hydro data model, tools, functionality and examples of real-world water resource problems and integration of external models including  SWAT and HEC-HMS
PREREQ: GEOG 360, CE 416 or Instructor's Permission

BS in Civil
MS/MEngr in Civil

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