Table 1. Weekly Schedule of class time suggested for the revised course on Hydraulic Structures and Dams.

Week Theme Subject Abstract conceptualization, reflective observation Concrete experience Active experimentation
Thinking, observing Sensing and feeling Doing
1 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.
2 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.
3 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.
4 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
5 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.
6 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.
7 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.
8 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.
9 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.
10 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.
11 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.
12 Electromechanical equipment. 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.
13 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.
14 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.
15 Final Exam. Exam stage in thinking and observing. Exam stage in sensing and feeling. Exam stage in active experimentation.