Intelligent Water Systems and Society
Overview: This emphasis area connects the intelligent design, monitoring, and management of water systems for the multiple water supply, agricultural, ecosystem, and other purposes and uses for which these systems are operated to benefit society. Research and work in this emphasis area includes urban water demand management, agricultural water management, reservoir management, stormwater management, drought management, river basin planning, and water management to enhance ecosystems. The emphasis also includes the design of data collection, management, visualization, and analysis systems to support management.
Core Courses
Fall
- CEE 5430CEE 5430/6430 Groundwater Engineering
- CEE 6800CEE 6800 Water and Environmental Seminar
Spring
- CEE 6110CEE 6110 Hydroinformatics
- CEE 5490CEE 5490/6490 Integrated River Basin/Watershed Planning and Management
- CEE 6660CEE 6660 Environmental and Hydrologic Data Analysis and Experimentation
- CEE 6800CEE 6800 Water and Environmental Seminar
And choose one of the following:
Fall
- CEE 6400CEE 6400 Physical Hydrology
Spring
- CEE 6450CEE 6450 Hydrologic Modeling
Note that with approval from the graduate committee, required courses can be waived if the student has successfully completed an equivalent course at Utah State University or elsewhere.
Electives
Students should choose courses from the following list to complete the program of study for their degree. Students may also choose from other courses available at USU in consultation with their graduate committee. All classes are offered yearly, unless otherwise specified.
Fall
- CEE 5430CEE 5430/6430 Groundwater Engineering
- CEE 6800CEE 6800 Water and Environmental Seminar
- CEE 6400CEE 6400 Physical Hydrology
- CEE 5500CEE 5500/6500 Open Channel Hydraulics
- CEE 6740CEE 6740 Surface Water Quality Modeling (Offered: even years)
- CEE 6930CEE 6930 Advanced Hydrology through CUAHSI Virtual University
- CEE 6540CEE 6540 Hydraulic Structures Design
- CEE 6930CEE 6930 Hydrologic Field Methods (Offered: 2025)
- CEE 6530CEE 6530 Hydraulic Modeling
- CEE 5410CEE 5410/6410 Water Resources Systems Analysis (Offered: even years)
- CEE 6610CEE 6610 Environmental Quality Analysis
- CEE 5655CEE 5655/6655 Green Infrastructure
- Data Science (choose from courses available in Computer Science)
- Databases (choose from courses available in Computer Science)
- WATS 6600WATS 6600 Environmental Water Management
- WATS 6900WATS 6900 Sediment Transport Mechanics
- WATS 6900WATS 6900 Hydrologic Modeling/Environmental Objectives in Watershed Management/Hydrology and Watershed Management Modeling (1 to 3 sections)
- WATS 6900WATS 6900 Drone Data Analysis Project
- WATS 6900WATS 6900 Modeling for Natural Resource Management
- WATS 6915WATS 6915 GIS fundamentals
- PSC 6810 PSC 6810 Climate and Climate Change
- PSC 5000 PSC 5000/6000 Environmental Instrumentation
- PSC 6123 PSC 6123 Climate Data Analysis
- PSC 4150 PSC 4150/6150 Bioinformatics and Big Data Mining
Spring
- CEE 6800CEE 6800 Water and Environmental Seminar
- CEE 5490CEE 5490/6490 Integrated River Basin/Watershed Planning and Management
- CEE 5003CEE 5003/6003 Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces
- CEE 5190CEE 5190/6190 GIS for Civil Engineers
- CEE 5470CEE 5470/6470 Sedimentation Engineering
- CEE 5550CEE 5550/6550 Hydraulics of Closed Conduits
- CEE 6110CEE 6110 Hydroinformatics
- CEE 6660CEE 6660 Environmental and Hydrologic Data Analysis and Experimentation
- CEE 6570CEE 6570 Computer Vision
- CEE 6640CEE 6640 Physical and Chemical Environmental Process Engineering
- CEE 6006CEE 6006 Agricultural Water Management
- Data Science (choose from courses available in Computer Science)
- Databases (choose from courses available in Computer Science)
- WATS 4500WATS 4500/6500 Limnology: Ecology of Inland Waters
- WATS 4930WATS 4930/6920 Advanced GIS and Spatial Analysis
- WATS 6150WATS 6150 Fluvial Geomorphology (Offered: 2024 then yearly after)
- WATS 6491WATS 6491 Streamflow Analysis
- WATS 6490WATS 6490 Small Watershed Hydrology
- WATS 6840WATS 6840 Ecohydraulics (Offered: 2024 then even years after)
- WATS 6900WATS 6900 Adaptive management and monitoring
- PSC 5410PSC 5410 Hydroclimate
- PSC 6810PSC 6810 Climate and Climate Change