Overview
In this unit you will be introduced to the basic principles of hydraulics and hydrology used in civil and environmental engineering. You will apply the concepts of conservation of mass, momentum and energy. You are also introduced to flow measurements, physical modelling of hydraulic systems, and pump selection to suit given applications. The unit requires you to solve problems, prepare basic designs, and describe the construction and maintenance of pipe and open channel systems. You are introduced to monitoring and analysis of the basic components of the hydrologic cycle including rainfall, evapotranspiration, infiltration, runoff, and groundwater. In completing these tasks, you must use appropriate technical language in written communication and work individually and in teams to solve problems. Students enrolled in distance mode are required to attend a compulsory Residential School.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisite: (MATH11218 Applied Mathematics or MATH11160 Technology Mathematics) AND (ENEG11006 Engineering Statics)
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2021
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Residential Schools
This unit has a Compulsory Residential School for distance mode students and the details are:
Click here to see your Residential School Timetable.
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Moodle
More tutorial problems and solutions will help.
A wide range of tutorial questions, workouts and videos will be provided on a weekly basis.
Feedback from Self
There are several repetition of the contents in three water related units.
Repeated contents will be removed and new relevant contents will be added.
- Apply standard techniques, computational tools, and data used by engineers in conducting hydraulics analysis
- Solve problems involving combinations of basic hydraulic systems including pipes, pumps and open channels
- Explain the key components of the hydrologic cycle, and how they are monitored and analysed
- Determine runoff from rainfall and groundwater discharge from aquifers under specified conditions
- Work autonomously and in teams to prepare a report with professional evaluation of experimental uncertainties and results obtained using appropriate engineering language.
All the learning outcomes are linked and comply with the Engineers Australia's Stage 1 Competency Standard.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
1 - Online Test - 30% | |||||
2 - Examination - 50% | |||||
3 - Practical Assessment - 20% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
1 - Communication | |||||
2 - Problem Solving | |||||
3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
4 - Information Literacy | |||||
5 - Team Work | |||||
6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
8 - Ethical practice | |||||
9 - Social Innovation | |||||
10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures |
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
1 - Online Test - 30% | ||||||||||
2 - Examination - 50% | ||||||||||
3 - Practical Assessment - 20% |
Textbooks
UNDERSTANDING HYDRAULICS
Third Edition (2011)
Authors: Les Hamill
Palgrave Macmillan UK - Academic
ISBN: 978-0-230-24275-3
Binding: Other
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
r.sharma@cqu.edu.au
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Hydrostatics
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Fluid in motion
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Flow through pipelines: Discharge, velocity and head calculations
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Flow through pipelines: Branching, and parallel pipelines
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Pumps and turbines
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Open channel flow: Discharge equations and channel proportions
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Exam
1 Online Test
This assessment task consists of one Online Test with two parts. The main characteristics of the Online Test are:
- There will be two parts of the online tests: Part A and Part B.
- Part A and B of the test cover contents of weeks 1-4 and weeks 5-9 respectively.
- Part A will be open from 09:00am AEST Monday to 05:00 pm AEST Friday of the of the Week 5.
- Part B will be open from 09:00am AEST Monday to 05:00 pm AEST Friday of the of the Week 10.
- You will have 120 minutes from when you start your attempt to submit your answers.
- You will be allowed to attempt each part of the test two times within a given time frame. The highest of the two attempts will be your final score for the part of test.
- There shall be minimum of four hours between the two attempts.
- Each part will have 10-15 numerical type questions. Questions may vary from student to student and may change on each attempt with different correct numerical responses.
- Each part will contribute 15% towards your final grade. (Part A 15% + Part B 15 % = 30% from Online Test).
Part A will be open from 09:00am AEST Monday to 05:00 pm AEST Friday of the of the Week 5. Part B will be open from 09:00am AEST Monday to 05:00 pm AEST Friday of the of the Week 10.
Marks will be available immediately after the completion of the parts of the test.
Answers will be automatically marked correct or incorrect.
- Apply standard techniques, computational tools, and data used by engineers in conducting hydraulics analysis
- Solve problems involving combinations of basic hydraulic systems including pipes, pumps and open channels
- Explain the key components of the hydrologic cycle, and how they are monitored and analysed
- Determine runoff from rainfall and groundwater discharge from aquifers under specified conditions
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
2 Practical Assessment
The objective of this assessment item is to assess students’ ability to relate the practical knowledge with the course learning outcomes. There will be 5 experiments:
- centre of pressure
- stability of floating bodies
- turbulent flow in pipes
- centrifugal pump and
- open channel flow
Students will work in teams to do the experiments, record data and prepare a team report. Students enrolled in distance mode will carry out the experiments during the compulsory Residential School. Schedule for on-campus students will be available before the start of the term. All students are expected to participate in all parts of the assessment which should be detailed in a short individual description and submitted with the team report.
Week 11 Monday (24 May 2021) 5:00 pm AEST
Two weeks after the submission.
The laboratory reports are assessed using these key criteria:
- presentation of the data;
- analysis of the results;
- discussion of the results including comparison of the experimental and theoretical values;
- conclusions.
- Solve problems involving combinations of basic hydraulic systems including pipes, pumps and open channels
- Work autonomously and in teams to prepare a report with professional evaluation of experimental uncertainties and results obtained using appropriate engineering language.
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
Examination
Calculator - all non-communicable calculators, including scientific, programmable and graphics calculators are authorised
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