Colorado needs more engineers and physical scientists (Colorado Talent Pipeline Report) and our State’s need for additional water supply, management, and recreation is growing at an astonishing rate.

This class focuses on the technical skillsets and professions required for future water infrastructure, restoring degraded systems, and protecting the healthy systems.

Course Skillsets and Knowledge

  • Understanding future career options in this field

  • Understanding river processes related to our infrastructure’s design and protection

  • Open channel hydraulics and flood intervals

  • Basic understanding of hydraulic simulations (HEC-RAS 1D and 2D)

  • Fluvial geomorphology skillsets of sediment transport

  • Feedback between hydraulics, geomorphology, and vegetation

  • Stream Evolution Model and river health and degradation

  • Introduction to Process Based Restoration (post assisted log structures PALS, temporary water impoundment grade structures TWIGS)

  • Data collection with ArcGIS Collector and ArcGIS Online data visualization