Upon successful completion of this course, the student will: 
1.  Understand why natural resources engineering is important to 
society 
2.  Understand concepts and principles of hydrology 
3.  Understand foundations of water quality 
4.  Understand the use of basic engineering containment 
structures for managing stormwater and preserving land system 
integrity
5.  Understand concepts of ecological indicators with respect to 
stream and watershed systems
6.  Understand the impacts and effects of land disturbance, soil 
erosion, and uncontrolled water flow on human and ecological 
systems

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be 
able to:
•  Predict precipitation for specified frequency and duration of
storms 
•  Estimate runoff volume and peak runoff rate for design 
•  Compute infiltration volumes 
•  Generate runoff hydrographs 
•  Estimate erosion losses and analyze erosion runoff 
•  Design vegetated waterways and channels with specified lining 
materials
•  Apply engineering standards to hydrology and land system 
problems
•  Assess watershed conditions using ecological and hydrologic 
metrics
•  Characterize land use for application to engineering 
problem‐solving
•  Apply modern engineering tools to conduct hydrologic analysis 
of pre- and post‐development land disturbing activities and 
design a control structure to manage runoff

1.  Hydrologic cycle
a.  Precipitation
b.  Infiltration
c.  Evapotranspiration
d.  Runoff
2.  Engineering hydrology
a.  Watershed systems, assessment, and delineation
b.  Design storms and precipitation analysis
c.  Runoff analysis
d.  SCS method
e.  Rational method
f.  Peak discharge
g.  Runoff hydrographs
3.  Soil erosion
4.  Water quality
a.  Nonpoint and point sources of water pollution
5.  Open channel flow
a.  Manning’s equation
b.  Vegetated waterways
c.  Flood routing
6.  Landscape-scale containment structures
a.  Detention and retention
b.  Stormwater ponds
7.  Engineering design standards for stormwater
a.  Water quality
b.  Channel protection
c.  Overbank flooding
d.  Extreme flooding
8.  Design of control structures to manage runoff and peak 
discharge
9.  Conservation and bioremediation in the environment