Irrigation Engineering

fall 2016
Text book
N.N. Bassak, Irrigation Engineering
Santosh Kumar Garg, Irrigation Engineering and Hydraulic structure
Course Grading
Exams (2)
Project and presentation

80 %
20 %

Course Outline
Introduction
Crop water requirement
Hydrological study
Ground water development
Canal section
Design of unlined canal
Design of lined canal
Hydraulic structure
Diversion head work
Student Project
You will be required to do a class project (group project). This project will represent 10 % of
your grade. It will be evaluated on the substance and creativity. You must submit the project
40 days before the end of semester. You can also submit a rough draft after 4 weeks of start
the course. Oral presentations will last 15 minutes and the written report should be long
enough to represent the same material, however, do not plan merely to read your report to the
class; oral and written presentations of the same material are very different.
Possible topics for presentations (areas for which we will not have sufficient time during
class sessions):

Irrigation structures analysis

Ground-water management
Threats to ground water
Watershed analysis
Ground water and tectonic processes
Regional variation in ground water
Regulatory framework/politics of ground water
Groundwater or Surface Water Modeling
Surface Water Development and management
Water resources engineering
Hydraulic structure & Dam design
Water & soil conservation
Groundwater or Surface Water Contamination
Case studies
Drought forecasting
Irrigation software (Cropwat, HEC-RAS and ..)
Other (encouraged)

Project topics should be approved by the instructor. Each group should do a different
topic. If you dont submit your project title the topic will be assigned by instructor.

Course syllabus
Irrigation Engineering
Semester Calendar
(tentative)
Date

Whats Due

Topic

week 1

introduction

week 1

Type of irrigation

week 2

Paper topic

Crop water requirement

week 4

Duty , delta & base

week 5

Irrigation efficiency

week 6

Type of canal
Midterm exam

Type of canal lining

week 8

Unlined canal

week 9

Design of unlined canal

week 10

Lined canal

week 11

Economy of canal lining

week 12

Design of lined canal

week 13

Paper rough
draft

Weir, barrage and dam

week 14

Flume design

week 15

Type of small dam

week 16

Review
Final Exam

Ch 1
Introduction

Necessity of Irrigation

week 3

week 7

Text reading

Ch 2
crop water
requirement
Ch 5
Flow irrigation
Ch 6
Canal section
Ch 7
Drainage canal
Ch 9
Irrigation canal
Ch 6
lined canal

Ch 7
Irrigation structure
Ch 8
Head works