An attendee of this course will gain knowledge about frequency analysis of peak flood data from a gaged site.
An understanding of hydrology is important for many civil engineering, environmental engineering, and geotechnical related projects. This course is about the use of frequency analysis of peak flood data from a gaged site, including use of the standard normal distribution, the log normal distribution, the Gumbel extreme value distribution, and the Log-Pearson type III distribution.
Topics: At the conclusion of this course, the student will: • Be familiar with standard terminology used in connection with frequency analysis of peak flood data from gaged sites. • Be able to calculate the probability of a flood of specified return period being equaled or exceeded in a single year. • Be able to use values for mean, standard deviation and skew of an annual series of peak flood rates in a variety of frequency analysis calculations. • Be able to calculate the flood magnitude of specified return period using known mean and standard deviation of an annual series of peak flood magnitudes, assuming that the data fits a standard normal distribution. • Be able to calculate the flood magnitude of specified return period using known mean and standard deviation of the logs of an annual series of peak flood magnitudes, assuming that the data fits a log normal distribution. • Be able to calculate the flood magnitude of specified return period using known mean, standard deviation and skew of the logs of an annual series of peak flood magnitudes, assuming that the data fits a Log-Pearson type III distribution. • Be able to calculate the flood magnitude of specified return period using known mean and standard deviation of an annual series of peak flood magnitudes, assuming that the data fits a Gumbel extreme value distribution.
Intended Audience: for hydrologists, civil engineers, hydraulic engineers, highway engineers, municipal engineers, geotechnical engineers and environmental engineers.Â
Note from Author: An attendee of this course will gain knowledge about frequency analysis of peak flood data from a gaged site. US DOT (Federal Highway Administration)
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.
