Online Course Catalog
CEE 453 - Urban Hydrology and Hydraulics
Spring 2025
| Title | Section | CRN | Type | Hours | Times | Days | Location | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Hydrology and Hydraulics | ONL | 44664 | ONL | 4 | - | Arthur R Schmidt Alireza Talebpour |
Course Description
This combined course (453/415) will cover the geometric design of roadway and associated drainage. The topics to be covered in the combined course are vehicle-driver characteristics, safety and sight distances, horizontal and vertical alignment, interchanges, earthwork and mass-haul, hydrologic computations, design of various hydraulic structures, flood-plain computations, scour and erosion control design, and storm-water best management practices. A major component of the class is a semester long, team-oriented design project of a roadway including drainage calculations and hydraulic structures. (Credit is not given for both CEE 415 and CEE 453.)
Credit Hours
4 hours (counts toward the certificate in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering)
Prerequisites
A course in Transportation Engineering (CEE 310).
Subject Area
- Civil and Environmental Engineering