Intended for Hydraulic, Water Resources, Geotechnical, Civil, Environmental, and other engineers whose job description requires a general knowledge of stream hydraulic principles.
This course covers several topics related to and useful for stream hydraulics calculations, including: channel cross-section parameters; the Froude number and Reynolds number; the continuity, energy, and momentum equations; hydraulic computations for uniform flow, normal depth, and roughness coefficient determination; water surface profile calculation; weir flow; hydraulic jumps; and channel routing.
In this course, you need to review the material in the NRCS National Engineering Handbook, Part 654 Stream Restoration Design, Chapter 6 Stream Hydraulics, available at: https://directives.sc.egov.usda.gov/OpenNonWebContent.aspx?content=17782.wba
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of fifteen (15) questions to earn 3 PDH credits. The quiz will be based on the entire document.
Topics:At the conclusion of this course, the student will:
Intended Audience:This course is intended for Hydraulic, Water Resources, Geotechnical, Civil, Environmental, and other engineers whose job description requires a general knowledge of stream hydraulic principles.
Publication Source:NRCS
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.
