e-Learning Projects

SP-II "DISTANCE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES"
is one of the five Specific Projects (SPs) linked together in ETNET 21,
the European Thematic Network of Education and Training for Environment-Water.

http://etnet21.bauinf.tu-cottbus.de/spII/

HydroWeb: Web-based Collaborative Engineering in Hydroscience

May/June 2004
15 partner universities in 2003
Coordinator: Dr. F.Molkenthin
frank@bauinf.tu-cottbus.de
http://www.hydro-web.org

Modeling Flow And Contaminant Transport in the Subsurface

A self-study COMPUTER MEDIATED DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE offered on
an individual basis via the Internet
Czech Technical University in Prague
Course Instructor: Prof. J. Bear
valentov@fsv.cvut.cz
http://cecwi.fsv.cvut.cz/kurzy/flotra2001

Web-Courses at Helsinki University of Technology

http://www.water.hut.fi/wr/index.en.html

The following teaching material, created by Prof. T. Karvonen
Tuomo.Karvonen@hut.fi, is available:

1. Soil and Groundwater Hydrology

http://www.water.hut.fi/~tkarvone/sgh_pre.htm
Computational aspect, basic theory included, several solved
examples: EXCEL-files can be downloaded and a 2-D modelling
package can be downloaded: it can be used to solve realistic
problems.

2. Pollutant Transport in Subsurface Soils and in Groundwaters
http://www.water.hut.fi/wr/kurssit/Yhd-12.126/oppimateriaali/paa_e.htm
Basic transport processes, biodegradation, adsorption, organic
hydrocarbon compounds, heavy metals, examples, exercises, case
studies, animations and a 2-D modelling package.

3. Special Assignment in Hydrology
Influence of Global Climate Change on Different Hydrological
Variables
http://www.water.hut.fi/wr/kurssit/Yhd-12.135/kirja/paa_e.htm
Snow accumulation and snowmelt, evapotranspiration rate, crop
growth, run off and data sets distributed via internet.

4. Pollutant Transport in Surface Waters Transport Process in Rivers
http://www.water.hut.fi/~btzankov/e-book_1/Page1.html
Basic transport processes, diffusion, advection, dispersion
and biodegradation
BOD-DO in rivers, sediment transport, river
aggradation/degradation, nitrogen and phosphorus in rivers,
lake currents, transport in lakes/estuaries

5. Computational Methods in Water Resources Engineering
(1st version in Jan 2002)
Modeling, numerical methods of ordinary and partial
differential equations, optimization, parameter estimation

6. Open Channel Hydraulics
(1st version in Jan 2002)
Basic theory, uniform flow, unsteady flow, numerical solution
of the St. Venant equation., pipe flow

Hydroinformatics and Management Systems

Course Programme at University of Newcastle
Master of Science, Diploma and Professional Development Courses
An Integrated Graduate Development Scheme in partnership with industry
hydroinformatics@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hydroinformatics