Overview
Advanced Water Engineering will introduce you to different components of the hydrologic cycle that are essential for designing complex water infrastructures. In this unit, you will discuss concepts of probability and uncertainty governing water resources projects. You will estimate design rainfall and losses, and peak flows and volumes for engineering design. You will also be introduced to the design of pipe networks for water supply and collection of wastewater and stormwater. You will also be designing hydraulic structures necessary to control urban stormwater. In completing these tasks, you must use appropriate technical language in written communication and work in teams to solve problems.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Anti-requisite: ENEC14017 Water Resources Engineering and ENEC13014 Water and Wastewater Technology units combined
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 2 - 2018
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).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 12-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 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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- Formulate, plan, manage and complete projects individually or in teams in an ethical and professional manner considering stakeholder requirements and principals of sustainable development
- Design urban water distribution networks
- Design urban wastewater collection networks
- Assess the hydrology of a catchment and estimate design floods for a given annual exceedance probability
- Design urban stormwater collection and treatment systems
- Demonstrate a professional level of communication and leadership.
The Learning Outcomes for this unit are linked with Engineers Australia's Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineers.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 35% | ||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 35% | ||||||
| 3 - Examination - 30% | ||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | ||||||
| 2 - Communication | ||||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||||
| 4 - Research | ||||||
| 5 - Self-management | ||||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||||
| 7 - Leadership | ||||||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 35% | ||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 35% | ||||||||
| 3 - Examination - 30% | ||||||||
Textbooks
Water-Resources Engineering
Edition: Third (2013)
Authors: David A. Chin
Pearson
Harlow Harlow , England
Binding: Paperback
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Personal Computer
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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Fundamental of Flow in Closed Conduits
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Chin: Chapter 2
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Design of Water Distribution Sytems I
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Chin: Chapter 3
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Design of Water Distribution Sytems II
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Fundamentals of Flow in Open Channels
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Design of Sanitary Sewers
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Probability and Statistics in Water-Resources Engineering
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Rainfall Intensity-Frequency and Duration Analysis
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Design of Stormwater Collection Systems I
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Design of Stormwater Collection Systems II
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Design of Stormwater Collection Systems III
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Design of Stormwater Management System
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1 Written Assessment
You are required to design a water-distribution system and wastewater collection system for a given area. Some information related to the project area such as topography and population is provided but you need to collect other relevant information from suppliers, councils and market survey as appropriate. Additional information on the assignment is available on the course website.
This is an individual work which includes open-ended small design projects and some numerical problems.
Vacation Week Thursday (16 Aug 2018) 5:00 pm AEST
Week 7 Thursday (30 Aug 2018)
Assessment of the design report will be done based on
- Valid and Verified assumptions: All values and statements should be properly referenced and supported. [Max 20%; ]
- Explanation of the work: All design steps should be explained in full detail. This covers the presentation of appropriate diagrams, statement of the principles and formulas in the correct order, presentation of all necessary steps in the analysis in the correct order and clear presentation of workings with links to the desired results. [Max 60%]
- Accuracy in calculations and correct results [Max 20%]
- Appropriate and Professional level of Communication [Pass/Fail - All the design steps should be explained in full detail. You should get Pass from this criteria to get marks from the others.]
- Formulate, plan, manage and complete projects individually or in teams in an ethical and professional manner considering stakeholder requirements and principals of sustainable development
- Design urban water distribution networks
- Design urban wastewater collection networks
- Demonstrate a professional level of communication and leadership.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
2 Written Assessment
Your team has been commissioned to design a stormwater drainage network for a new sub-division. You will use XPSWMM software for the design. You will also do some manual calculations to design stormwater systems. Some of the input data relevant to the chosen location of the project will be sourced from ARR2016 and QUDM. You may need to collect other relevant information from suppliers, councils and market survey as appropriate. Additional information on the assignment is available on the course website.
This team-based project is by design open-ended, and you are to make several assumptions.
Week 11 Thursday (27 Sept 2018) 5:00 pm AEST
Review/Exam Week Monday (8 Oct 2018)
Assessment of the design report will be done based on:
- Valid and Verified assumptions: All values and statements should be properly referenced and supported. [Max 20%; ]
- Explanation of the work: All design steps should be explained in full detail. This covers the presentation of appropriate diagrams, statement of the principles and formulas in the correct order, presentation of all necessary steps in the analysis in the correct order and clear presentation of workings with links to the desired results. [Max 60%]
- Accuracy in calculations and correct results [Max 20%]
- Appropriate and Professional level of Communication [Pass/Fail - All the design steps should be explained in full detail. You should get Pass from this criteria to get marks from the others.]
- Formulate, plan, manage and complete projects individually or in teams in an ethical and professional manner considering stakeholder requirements and principals of sustainable development
- Assess the hydrology of a catchment and estimate design floods for a given annual exceedance probability
- Design urban stormwater collection and treatment systems
- Demonstrate a professional level of communication and leadership.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
Examination
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