Intended for Stream, Civil, Hydraulic, Water Resources, Environmental, and other engineering professionals whose job description may require a general knowledge of Stream Hydrology.
This course covers several topics related to and useful for stream hydrology calculations, including: overview of design discharge, probability, gage analysis for flow frequency, regional analysis, flow duration, hydrological models, channel-forming discharges, and other sources of design flows.
At the conclusion of this course, the student will:
Be familiar with low flows, channel-forming discharge and high discharge for use as design discharge for streams Be familiar with the use of flow duration in design discharge calculations Be familiar with the use of seasonal flows in design discharge calculations Be familiar with the use of estimates of future flows in design discharge calculations Be able to calculate the annual probability of occurrence (P) of an event of known return period (Rp) Be able to calculate the risk (probability of exceedance of an event of annual probability, P, over a period of n years) Be familiar with the statistical parameters, mean, standard deviation, and skew coefficient Be familiar with the normal distribution, log-normal distribution, Gumbel extreme value distribution, and log-Pearson type II distribution for use in discharge-frequency analyses Be able to determine the K-value for the Gumbel extreme value distribution for known return period and sample size Be able to determine the K-value for the log-Pearson type III distribution for known recurrence interval and skew coefficient Be familiar with cautions and limitations in connection with channel-forming discharge analyses
Dr. Harlan Bengtson is an online PDH course provider of continuing education courses for professional engineers. Dr. Bengtson is a graduate of Iowa State University with B.S. and M.S. degrees and of the University of Colorado with a PhD. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Missouri. Dr. Bengtson has spent 30 years in engineering education in teaching and administrative positions, including six years as Dean of Engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Dr. Harlan H. Bengtson, PE 33 Grainey Drive Glen Carbon, IL 62034 Phone: (618) 406-6892 E-mail: hnkbengtson@yahoo.com PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Dr. Bengtson is a graduate of Iowa State University with B.S. and M.S. degrees and of the University of Colorado with a PhD. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Missouri. He has spent 30 years in engineering education in teaching and administrative positions, including six years as Dean of Engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. His areas of expertise are environmental engineering, hydrology and hydraulics, engineering science and renewable energy systems. He has done regular consulting work while holding the academic positions. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Bengtson worked for Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing as a Product Development Engineer and for E. I. duPont deNemours as a Process Development Engineer. Dr. Bengtson has authored numerous publications, presentations and technical reports. He is currently active as a freelance technical writer, author of continuing education courses for Professional Engineers, and is the founder of www.engineeringexceltemplates.com and www.EngineeringExcelSpreadsheets.com, sites with the objective of providing inexpensive, easy to use Excel spreadsheets for a variety of engineering calculations.
