Master of Science in Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil Geo and Environmental Engineering
Technische Universität München
FIELD OF STUDY 2 WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR: PROF. DR-ING MARKUS DISSE
ELECTIVE MODULES
Integrated water resources management (WS, 6 Cr): The students will learn that water resources management is a process to becoordinated among different stakeholders, considering an interdisciplinary approach which includes economic, social, political andecological constraints. During the lectures, the students will understand the theory, which lies behind the model they are going to use inthe exercises and homework. A complementary theoretical background of the models used is provided in the exercises in order toenhance the understanding of the students. At the end of the module, they will be able to create their own model of a river basin and tomake an analysis of various water allocation and water resources management strategies. Furthermore, they will build an optimizationproblem and will solve it for the most important water resources issues (optimal water allocation, storage capacity – yield, reservoirsoperation and groundwater supply).
Hydrological Modeling of three Alpine catchments using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)
Integrated water resources management and flood protection
In English
CONTENTS
REQUIRED MODULES
Module Title Credits Semester Exam Language
BGU54008T2Hydrological and Environmental
River Basin Modelling
6 WS Written exam, 90
min + additional
course work
English
BGU54015Water Management at the
Catchment Scale (Field trip to the
Adige River Basin)
3 SS Scientific report +
oral exam, 30 min
English
BGU54019Numerical Modelling of Water
Demand and Supply in Arid Regions
(OWHM)
3 SS Oral presentation
of project work, 30
min
English
BGU54017 Environmental Remediation
Strategies
3 WS Written exam, 60
min.
English
BV460017/8Water Resources and Hydro Power
6 WS Written exam, 120
min.
English
BV460012
Rivers as an ecosystem
6 SS Written exam, 45
min + oral exam, 30
min
English
BV170009 International Water Rights and
Politics
3 WS Written exam, 60
min.
English
BV660004T2 Modelling of Groundwater-Soil-Plant
Interactions
3 SS Report English
BGU54021 Remote Sensing in
Hydrology
6 SS Written exam, 90
min + course work
English
BGU54013T2 Seminar in Rainfall-Runoff Modelling 3 WS Oral presentation English
Module Title Credits Semester Exam Language
BV040005Naturnahe Bauweisen
3 WS Written exam, 60
min.
German
BGU38014 Bewirtschaftung von Kanalnetzen
und Regenwassermanagement
6 SS Written exam, 120
min
German
In German
Students enrolled in this field of study will acquire profound knowledge about the hydrological cycle and its relation to the biosphere,pedosphere and atmosphere. They understand water related conflicts in national and international river basins and find sustainable solutionsby integrating and balancing ecological, social and economic requirements. They are able to apply analytic tools like optimization methodsand physically based hydrological models to solve complex water resources challenges like drought and flood mitigation or water qualityproblems at the catchment scale. Furthermore, the students will evaluate the consequences of man-made deterioration of river courses andalleviate these effects by ecological decentralized restoration measures. They will be able to focus on integrated water resourcesmanagement, planning and designing flood protection measures and finding solutions in mitigating ecological impacts.
Physical based hydrological modeling: the need for field data
Flood risk and flood management (SS, 6 Cr): First the students will learn general motivation of flood risk management (FRM), thesocial and political framework of FRM as well as tools and models for the hydrologic/hydraulic modelling of the flood events. In thesecond part of the course, quantitative methods for analyzing the flood damage and flood risk and for risk-basedevaluation/optimization of the flood protection measures are presented. The accompanying exercises will provide brief introduction to /summary of programming in MATLAB and the students will learn how to implement the theory explained in the lectures on simple butrealistic examples using Matlab and hydrological models. In Middle Europe the distributed, conceptual model LARSIM is used widespread for flood forecast. Students also learn to use this model in a case study and hand in a report describing their results.
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