Table 1. Weekly Schedule of class time suggested for the revised course on Hydraulic Structures and Dams.
||Abstract conceptualization, reflective observation
|| Concrete experience
||Sensing and feeling
||Societal Needs. Societal implications.
||Societal needs in water for agricultural, industrial and domestic use. Single or multiple uses of water. Resettlement, rehabilitation.
||Lists and statistics of water needs, water availability, water consumption. Sketches of storage, conveyance and distribution line diagrams.
||Calculating household and community needs in water use, agricultural and industrial needs, and variations of the needs with time.
||Environmental and legal issues.
||Availability of water for use by humans, animals and plants, resources available. Environmental constraints. Water rights, legal issues.
||Reviewing new and old developments, use of available resources, opportunities, and threats for new. Listing legal issues and rights of water use.
||Assessment of factors in favor and against developing hydraulic structures and dams. Lists of conflicting interests of water users.
||Availability of water, storage, flood control.
||Storage and flow of water. Main and complimentary uses of water, the physics of the hydrologic cycle, storage reservoirs. Flood control reservoirs.
||Display of the hydrologic cycle, making lists and descriptions of known available water bodies, locations of new reservoirs, possible exploitation sites.
||Listing the environmental constrains, advantages and disadvantages to the environment, remediation measures. Environmentally friendly alternatives.
||Design of layout.
||Overall layout and design of storage, conveyance structures, irrigation and drainage channels, flow control structures. Intersecting roads and water structures.
||Demonstration of layouts, intersections of structures, crossing rivers, roads. Cross sections of tunnels, channels, positions of energy dissipation structures, surge tanks.
||Sketching layouts, calculating dimensions of main structures on given simple topography. Sketching conveyance structures and energy dissipation structures
||Design of layout.
||Design of access roads, land use and landscaping. Auxiliary structures of aggregate and concrete production, earth materials borrow areas.
||Display of descriptions of human or natural features at the site, alternatives of accessing the site, needed facilities. Environmental remediation design.
||Evaluation of quantities and cost, developing time schedule of removal of installations, building facilities, access roads, provision of earth or concrete materials.
||Design of river diversion.
||Design of river diversion with tunnels, channels. Multiple diversion structures, multiple stages of diversion. Initiation, operation, diversion closure. Navigation structures.
||Display of the different types of structures in perspective, advantages and disadvantages in different site situations. Plans of multiple diversion stages. Fish ladders.
||Performing preliminary hydraulic calculations, criteria for structural and foundation design. Sketching multiple diversions in plan and the sequence of multiple stages.
||Design of foundation.
||Design of impermeable layers, drainage filters, grout curtains, drain curtains, and upstream impermeable aprons for hydraulic structures and dams.
||Slides of different types of dams in perspective, different cutoff structures, upstream aprons, seepage and drainage control structures. Flow nets.
||Performing preliminary stability calculations, criteria for geo-technical and foundation design, grouting and drainage curtains design.
||Design of waterways.
||Intakes and headrace tunnels and channels. Energy dissipation structures. Surge tanks. Siphons.
||Display of the different types of structures in perspective, advantages and disadvantages in different site situations.
||Performing preliminary hydraulic calculations, criteria for structural and foundation design, excavation methods.
||Design of waterways.
||Spillways and bottom outlets. Combinations of spillways and bottom outlets with diversion tunnels, concrete plugs. Irrigation bypasses.
||Display of the different types of structures in perspective, advantages and disadvantages in different site situations. Combination of structures.
||Performing preliminary hydraulic calculations, criteria for structural and foundation design, excavation methods, use of rock material.
||Design of dams.
||Concrete gravity dams, buttress dams, arch dams. Design methods for stability. Grout and drainage structures. Instrumentation.
||Display of the different types of dams in perspective, advantages and disadvantages in different site situations, positioning the appurtenant structures.
||Performing preliminary dimensioning of dams, criteria for structural and foundation design, listing of main and auxiliary functions. Types and positions of instruments.
||Design of dams.
||Earth dams with impermeable core, rock fill dams, vertical, inclined, surface impermeable membranes, hydraulic deposition of dams. Instrumentation.
||Display of the different types of dams in perspective, advantages and disadvantages in different site situations. Positioning of auxiliary structures, instrumentation.
||Performing preliminary slope stability calculations, criteria for material selection, foundation design, grout and drain curtains, construction sequence, and landscaping.
||Pumps and motors, gates and valves, hoists, gantry cranes. Automatic or manual operation. Provision of power and control devices.
||Slide and video show of the available machinery in the market (pumps, gates, valves, control devices). Buildings and housings for equipment.
||Lists of hydro machinery, sketches of the different types, power and performance data, criteria for use, lists of manufacturers.
||Construction project management.
||Construction stage, project management, resources, schedules, temporary and permanent installations, temporary and permanent access roads and facilities.
||Field trip to construction sites of hydraulic structures and dams. Collection of information on resources, schedules, milestones, budgets, completion dates.
||Report writing on the material collected at the field trip. Input on items that should be considered in the project management design, outline of completion and project delivery procedure.
||Economics and finance.
||Economics and financing of projects of hydraulic structures and dams. Operation and maintenance stage of the project. Salvage value. Decommissioning.
||Display of lists of cost and benefit items in projects of hydraulic structures and dams, sources of financing and payback methods. Monitoring and maintenance. Removal.
||Lists of construction activities, duration and cost, benefits and revenue from operation, gains from losses avoided, cost-benefit analysis. Maintenance. Refurbishing. Salvaging.
||Exam stage in thinking and observing.
||Exam stage in sensing and feeling.
||Exam stage in active experimentation.