Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering

Hydrologic Science and Engineering – Courses

Hydrologic Science and Engineering Courses

Courses

Research understanding how climate change affects extreme precipitation and flooding (Dr. Davenport)
In the HSE program, students select their courses in consultation with their advisor to match their specific needs and interests.  No specific courses are required at the masters or doctoral level, which allows each student maximum flexibility to tailor their education.  Typically, students take courses in physical, groundwater, and urban hydrology, hydraulics, watershed modeling, geographical information systems (GIS), and water resources planning and management.  Students also commonly take courses in other disciplines such as atmospheric science, ecosystem science, geoscience, soil science, mathematics, statistics, and economics.

Courses offered by the HSE program are listed below:
Introductory Classes
CIVE 322 Basic Hydrology
CIVE 423 Groundwater Engineering
Core Classes
CIVE 520 Physical Hydrology
CIVE 531 Groundwater Hydrology
Method/Tool Classes
CIVE 577 GIS in Civil and Environmental Engineering
CIVE 524 Modeling Watershed Hydrology
CIVE 622 Risk Analysis of Water/Environmental Systems
Application Classes
CIVE 512 Irrigation Systems Design
CIVE 542 Water Quality Modeling
CIVE 572 Analysis of Urban Water Systems
CIVE 573 Urban Stormwater Management
CIVE 625 Quantitative Eco-Hydrology
CIVE 638 Groundwater Quality and Contaminant Transport

Hydrology-related courses offered by the CEE Department are listed below:
CIVE 519 Irrigation Water Management
CIVE 521 Hydrometry
CIVE 544 Water Resources Planning and Management
CIVE 547 Statistics for Environmental Monitoring
CIVE 549 Drainage and Wetland Engineering
CIVE 655 Advanced Soil Mechanics
CIVE 565 Finite Element Method

Additional hydrology-related courses at CSU are listed below:
Atmospheric Science
ATS 550 Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing
ATS 652 Atmospheric Remote Sensing
ATS 780 Machine Learning for Atmospheric Science
Computer Science
CS 545 Machine Learning
Ecology
ECOL 505 Foundations of Ecology
ECOL 610 Ecosystem Ecology
ECOL 620 Applications in Landscape Ecology
Ecosystem Science and Sustainability
ESS 501 Principles of Ecosystem Sustainability
ESS/ATS 543 Global Climate Change
Electrical and Computer Engineering
ECE 556 AI for Radar and Remote Sensing
Engineering
ENGR 522 Object-Oriented GIS Programming for Engineers
ENGR 550 Numerical Methods in Science and Engineering
Geosciences
GEOL 452 Hydrogeology
GEOL 541 Geostatistics
GEOL 551 Groundwater Modeling
GEOL 552 Advanced Topics in Hydrogeology
GEOL 553 Tracer Hydrogeology
GEOL 554 Remote Sensing of the Earth System
GEOL 579 Solid Earth Inverse Methods and Practices
GEOL 652 Fluvial Geomorphology
Geography
GR503 Remote Sensing and Image Analysis
Natural Resources
NR 503 Remote Sensing and Image Analysis
NR 504 Computer Analysis of Remote Sensing Data
NR 512 Spatial Statistical Modeling-Natural Resources
NR 426/427 Programming in GIS
Soil and Crop Sciences
SOCR 470 Soil Physics
SOCR 522 Micrometeorology
Statistics
STAT 540 Data Analysis and Regression
STAT 525 Analysis of Time Series I
STAT 560 Applied Multivariate Analysis
Watershed Science
WR 514 GIS and Data Analysis for Water Resources
WR 574 Advanced Snow Hydrology
WR 575 Snow Hydrology Field Methods
WR 616 Hillslope Hydrology and Runoff Processes