About the program
The graduate program in Hydraulics and Water Resources at the University of Iowa prepares students for careers in hydraulics, hydrology, and water resources, by providing a strong theoretical and applied foundation, and a broad-based academic background, necessary for positions in engineering design, research, and academia. The program combines hydraulics, fluid mechanics, hydrology, and water resources, with elements from environmental engineering, meteorology, remote sensing and systems analysis, and related disciplines such as mathematics, statistics, electrical and computer science engineering, geology, and geographical information systems.
The Hydraulics and Water Resources curriculum is associated with IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering, a world-renowned research institute, where senior staff members of the institute are professors in the program. IIHR offers unique curriculum opportunities in laboratory and field-scale experimentation, and in mathematical modeling with IIHR's high-speed computer facilities.
Most of the faculty members in the Hydraulics and Water Resources program are also part of the Iowa Flood Center, the only academic flood center in the nation. By training and educating a workforce knowledgeable in the flood-related sciences, the Iowa Flood Center provides students with the opportunity to work on improving flood monitoring and prediction capabilities, and on developing models for flood frequency estimation and real-time forecasting.
Theses and dissertations
- Open-source web-based computing libraries and applications for the advancement of hydrology research and education
- Advancing water resources decision processes: client-side web simulation for hydrology and novel approaches to incorporating social preference
- Can little ponds fight big floods?: A comprehensive analysis on the utility of activated distributed storage networks for flood peak reduction
Courses of interest
- CEE:5380 Fluid Flows in Environmental Systems
- CEE:5410 Politics and Economics of the Food, Energy, Water Nexus
- CEE:5350 Watershed Hydrology and Ecosystem Processes
- CEE:5095 Career Paths in Sustainable Water Development
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