Short Courses/ Awards Breakfast
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Short Courses
Short Courses |
Late/On-Site |
After 3/31/08 |
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Short Course #1: Treatment of Uncertainty in Water Resource Modeling and Analysis |
Mem = $275; Nonmem = $325 |
Short Course #2: Dam Removal – Damned if We Do – Damned if We Don’t |
Mem = $100; Nonmem = $125 |
Short Course #3: Post-Disaster Evaluation Training |
Mem = $100; Nonmem = $125 |
Short Course: #4 Principles of Streambank Analysis and Stabilization |
Mem = $295; Nonmem = $325 |
Short Course #5: Sediment Transport and Morphodynamic Processes Modeling |
Mem = $295; Nonmem = $325 |
Short Course #6: Use of Fluvial Geomorphology Principles in the Design of Natural Channels |
CANCELLED |
Short Course #7: Curve Number Rainfall-Runoff: Professional Application |
CANCELLED |
Short Course #8: The Arc Hydro Groundwater Data Model |
$0 |
Short Course #9: History & Heritage |
$0 |
Short Course #10: AAWRE Engineering Ethics |
$0 |
Short Course #11: HEC-RAS |
$0 |
Short Course #12: HEC-HMS |
$0 |
Monday, May 12, 2008 | 8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Short Course #1: Treatment of Uncertainty in Water Resource Modeling and Analysis
Presenter: Srikanta Mishra, Ph.D., Group Manager, Systems Modeling, INTERA Inc., Austin, TX
Scientists and engineers dealing with water resources are often confronted with uncertainty caused by incomplete knowledge and/or natural randomness. Traditional deterministic modeling of uncertainty in water resource models may involve the use of best-guess or worst-case assumptions about model inputs to quantify their impacts on model predictions. Alternatively, a set of optimistic and pessimistic values is sometimes utilized to provide upside and downside forecasts around a reference scenario.
Recently, there has been greater interest in the use of probabilistic uncertainty analysis methods, which allow a better definition of the range of likely outcomes and the likelihood of each outcome. This workshop will provide an introduction to several such methodologies including Monte Carlo simulation, analytical error propagation techniques, and probability/logic tree analysis method. Topics to be covered include: (a) characterization of model and parameter uncertainty; (b) translation of uncertainty in model inputs into uncertainty in model predictions; (c) determining key drivers of model output uncertainty; and (d) protocols for performing uncertainty analysis and communicating its results.
The workshop will be useful for engineers, scientists, managers and regulators who deal with the development and/or review of water resource models under uncertain conditions.
Registration Fee: See Registration Form for fees. Registration fee includes Short Course materials, lunch and refreshment breaks.
Monday, May 12, 2008 | 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Short Course #2: Dam Removal – Damned if We Do – Damned if We Don’t
Presenters: Don Phelps, PE, D.WRE, Water Resources Engineering, Chelan, WA & Kyle Schilling, PE, D.WRE
Challenges to removing obsolete or non-functioning dams are as complex as trying to build a new one. This Short Course presents information on the process and provides insight into the myriad of often competing concerns that need to be addressed when considering such an action.
Registration Fee: See Registration Form for fees.
Monday, May 12, 2008 | 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Short Course #3: Post-Disaster Evaluation Training
ASCE's Committee on Critical Infrastructure (CCI) is pleased to sponsor a disaster management training Short Course, Post-Disaster Evaluation Training, in cooperation with California Office of Emergency Services (OES) and Applied Technology Council (ATC). The Short Course will focus on ATC materials, including ATC-20: Procedures for Post-earthquake Safety Evaluation of Buildings and ATC-45: Safety Evaluation of Buildings After Wind Storms and Floods. The procedures were developed to evaluate the safety of buildings and other infrastructure systems after earthquakes, winds, floods and fire. The procedures and guidelines are written specifically for volunteer engineers, as well as building inspectors and municipal engineers, who would be required to make on-the-spot evaluations and decisions regarding the continued entry, use, operation, and occupancy of damaged buildings and other facilities.
Participants possessing a U.S. Professional Engineer’s license will be eligible to be registered as California Office of Emergency Services (OES) Safety Assessment Program (SAP) Evaluators. Participants completing the entire training will earn 6.0 Professional Development Hours (PDHs).
Registration Fee: See Registration Form for fees. Registration fee includes Short Course materials, lunch and refreshment breaks.
Monday, May 12, 2008 | 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Short Course: #4 Principles of Streambank Analysis and Stabilization
Presenter: Andrew Simon, Ph.D., Research Geologist, USDA-ARS National Sedimentation Laboratory, Oxford, MS
This one-day short course is designed for both public and private professionals engaged in stream investigation, management, stabilization and restoration. The course is designed to clearly demonstrate the essential links between channel instability and streambank erosion. The forces controlling streambank stability, analysis of these processes and modeling of streambank stability with application to design of bank-stabilization projects will be covered. Students will be given and learn how to use the ‘Bank-Stability and Toe-Erosion Model’ (BSTEM) (Simon et al., 2000) for predicting bank instability and designing stable bank geometries. Lectures will introduce the fundamental concepts linking streambank processes and geomorphic adjustments in the fluvial system. Modeling will provide students with the opportunity to investigate the factors controlling bank stability and understanding their significance when designing mitigation measures. Students will be allowed to keep the bank-stability modeling software for future use.
Registration Fee: See Registration Form for fees. Registration fee includes Short Course materials, lunch and refreshment breaks.
Monday, May 12, 2008 | 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Short Course #5: Sediment Transport and Morphodynamic Processes Modeling
The CCHE2D Software Package is a computational model developed for in-house research and engineering designs at the National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering (NCCHE). It has been comprehensively verified for mathematical correctness, validated for physical capability and applied to a variety of real-life hydraulic engineering problems with successes in the U.S. and abroad for more than 15 years. It has been continuously upgraded to include the latest developments of experimental laws, mathematical and/or numerical break-throughs and modeling techniques whenever available. Some features of this model are: several levels of turbulence models, non-uniform sediment transport in steady and unsteady flows under equilibrium or non-equilibrium conditions, non-cohesive and cohesive sediments, local scours, bank erosion, channel morphology, among other features.
Even though NCCHE has not released this model to the public, but would cooperate with any scientists and engineers to apply it to study the real-life problems, past cooperators are research engineers from USDA Agricultural Research Services, COE Districts and ERDC, State agencies of Maryland and Arizona, Institutions in Poland, Korea, Taiwan, etc. Similar short courses were offered in conjunction with international conferences in Japan, Poland, Korea, Taiwan, Washington D.C., as well as on the University of Mississippi campus.
This short course covers numerical modeling techniques, Mesh Generator, Model Verification, Validation and Application Examples. Participants shall have hands-on experience of practicing example cases using the user friendly Graphic User Interface. Participants are requested to bring their own laptops for loading a beta version of CCHE2D model for their practice at the short course and in the future.
Registration Fee: See Registration Form for fees. Registration fee includes lunch, refreshment breaks, lecture notes and a copy of Beta test version of the software for six months of use.
Monday, May 12, 2008 | 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Short Course #6: Use of Fluvial Geomorphology Principles in the Design of Natural Channels
Cancelled
Monday, May 12, 2008 | 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Short Course #7: Curve Number Rainfall-Runoff: Professional Applications
Cancelled
Monday, May 12, 2008 | 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Short Course #8: The Arc Hydro Groundwater Data Model
Presenter: Norm Jones, Professor - Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept., Director - Environmental Modeling Research Laboratory, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Arc Hydro Groundwater (AHGW) has been under development for the past four years as an extension or companion to the Arc Hydro surface water data model. The data model is designed to support various types of groundwater data in ArcGIS, including well/borehole data, 3D representations of hydrostratigraphy, and data from simulation models.
It is fully compatible with the surface water data model and consists of six primary components:
1. Framework data model;
2. Wells and boreholes;
3. Hydrostratigraphy;
4. Geology;
5. Time series; and
6. Simulation.
In this workshop, we will present an overview of the data model and associated tools. We will also provide information on downloading sample geo-databases and free tools.
Registration Fee: There is no fee; however, you must indicate you will attend on the registration form.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Short Course #9: History & Heritage
Co-sponsored by the EWRI Education and Research Council, EWRI History & Heritage Committee and EWRI International Activities Committee, this Short Course series will include a total of five sessions. The Opening Keynote Plenary for the EWRI History, Education & Research Symposium is titled, “The Hydraulics of Roman Aqueducts: What Do We Know? Why Should We Learn?,” presented by Professor H. Chanson, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Several sessions will cover engineering history, such as “Spanning from the Roman Period to Medieval European Construction with Cathedrals and Castles,” and “Hawai`i Water Development History and Issues.” Education and research sessions will be presented covering topics such as “General Dam Removal and Sediment Dynamics Post Dam Removal.”
Registration Fee: There is no fee; however, you must indicate you will attend on the registration form.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Short Course #9: History & Heritage
This Short Course series will include a total of five sessions. See description above.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 | 3:45 pm – 5:45 pm
Short Course #10: AAWRE Engineering Ethics
AAWRE highly advocates continuing education in engineering ethics for professional engineers and practitioners in the field of engineering. Through these short courses, instructors and participants will examine different ethical dilemmas for engineers, as presented via video. This will be an interactive short course and include breakouts in small group discussions. Participants will earn 2 PDHs for attending one-full session. This Short Course will be offered three times throughout the Congress.
Instructor/Speaker: Steve Starrett, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, Associate Professor from Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Registration Fee: There is no fee; however, you must indicate you will attend on the registration form.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Short Course #11: HEC-RAS
The Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center's HEC-RAS program and its GIS companion product HEC-GeoRAS are two widely used applications within the engineering community. GeoRAS, an ArcView and ArcGIS extension, is used for pre and post processing of RAS data. It has the ability to generate a RAS GIS import file from an existing digital terrain model and complementary data sets. Once a RAS model results are available, water surface profile and velocity data can be exported to GeoRAS and be processed into GIS data sets. RAS has been applied at many locations worldwide. It is designed to perform one-dimensional, steady and unsteady hydraulic calculations. RAS includes capabilities for modeling a myriad of hydraulic structures, dam and levee breaching, sediment budgeting and sediment movement. This workshop will provide an overview of RAS and GeoRAS, including features in HEC-RAS 4.0.
This 90 minute session will include new hydraulic features of HEC-RAS 4.0 and the new features of HEC-GeoRAS 4.2.92.
Lead Instructor: Gary W. Brunner, P.E., Senior Technical Hydraulic Engineer, Hydrologic Engineering Center, Davis, CA
Registration Fee: There is no fee; however, you must indicate you will attend on the registration form.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Short Course #11: HEC-RAS
Join us for part two and receive an overview of sediment transport modeling with HEC-RAS and an overview of water quality modeling with HEC-RAS.
Lead Instructor: Gary W. Brunner, P.E., Senior Technical Hydraulic Engineer, Hydrologic Engineering Center, Davis, CA
Thursday, May 15, 2008 | 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Short Course #12: HEC-HMS
The Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center's HEC-HMS program and its GIS companion product HEC-GeoHMS are widely used within the engineering community. GeoHMS, an ArcView and ArcGIS extension, is used for preprocessing of an HMS data set. It allows users to visualize spatial information, document watershed characteristics, perform spatial analysis, delineate basins and streams, and construct an HMS basin file. HMS simulates the precipitation-runoff processes of a dendritic watershed. It provides a wide variety of mathematical models for representing the mass and energy fluxes of the hydrologic cycle: precipitation, evapotranspiration, snowmelt, infiltration, surface runoff, baseflow, channel routing, reservoirs and diversions among others. These model choices include gridded and area-averaged methods for event or continuous simulation. This workshop will provide an overview of HMS and GeoHMS, including features in HMS 3.2
Registration Fee: There is no fee; however, you must indicate you will attend on the registration form.
Thursday, May 15, 2008 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Short Course #12: HEC-HMS
This is a two-part Short Course. See above for description.
Thursday, May 15, 2008 | 1:30 am – 3:00 pm
Short Course #9: History & Heritage
This Short Course series will include a total of five sessions. See description above.
Thursday, May 15, 2008 | 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Short Course #10: AAWRE Engineering Ethics
This Short Course will be offered three times throughout the Congress.
Friday, May 16, 2008 | 9:00 am – 10:30 pm
Short Course #9: History & Heritage
This Short Course series will include a total of five sessions. See description above.
Friday, May 16, 2008 | 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Short Course #10: AAWRE Engineering Ethics
This Short Course will be offered three times throughout the Congress.
Award Breakfasts
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 | 7:30 am – 9:15 am
Keynote Breakfast & Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation
The 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to individuals in recognition of their lifelong and eminent contribution to the environmental and water resources engineering disciplines through practice, research, and public service.
Welcome to the Congress
Kyle Schilling, P.E., BCEE, D.WRE, Hon.M.ASCE, EWRI President 2008-2009
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Your official welcome to the Congress will be offered by EWRI President Kyle Schilling. Invited to give you the official Honolulu greetings is Mufi Hannemann, Mayor of Honolulu. |
Keynote
Ramsay R. M. Taum, Special Assistant to the Dean on Host Culture and Community Affairs, School of Travel Industry Management, UH Manoa, Honolulu, HI
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The Keynote Breakfast is included for all Full, Student, and Tuesday-Daily Registrants. Additional tickets: $25. |
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | 7:30 am – 8:45 am
Freese Lecture & Awards Breakfast (Environmental)
The 2008 Simon W. Freese Environmental Engineering Award Lecture will be offered by an eminent environmental engineer selected to receive recognition along with a certificate and cash prize. Breakfast will precede the award lecture, and Environmental Council Awards will also be presented at this event.
Your choice of the Freese or Rouse Awards Breakfasts is included for all Full, Student, and Wednesday-Daily Registrants. Additional tickets: $25.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | 7:30 am – 8:45 am
Rouse Lecture & Awards Breakfast (Hydraulics and Waterways)
The 2008 Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award Lecture, hydraulic engineering’s premier lectureship, endowed through personal contributions by engineers and engineering firms throughout the world, will be presented at this event. The winner receives a certificate and cash prize. Additionally, Hydraulics & Waterways Council awards will be presented.
Your choice of the Rouse or Freese Awards Breakfasts is included for all Full, Student, and Wednesday-Daily Registrants. Additional tickets: $25.
Thursday, May 15, 2008 | 7:30 am – 8:45 am
Hinds Lecture & Awards Breakfast (Planning and Management)
The 2008 Julian Hinds Award Lecture will be presented by the author of a paper judged to have made the most meritorious contribution to the field of water resources development, or an individual for notable performance, long years of distinguished service, or specific actions that advanced engineering in the field of water resources planning, development, and management. The award consists of a plaque, certificate, and cash prize.
Breakfast will precede the lecture, and the presentation of Planning & Management Council awards will be made at this event.
Your choice of the Hinds or Tipton Awards Breakfasts is included for all Full, Student, and Friday-Daily Registrants. Additional tickets: $25.
Thursday, May 15, 2008 | 7:30 am – 8:45 am
Tipton Lecture & Awards Breakfast (Irrigation and Drainage)
The 2008 Royce J. Tipton Irrigation and Drainage Engineering Award is made annually to an ASCE member who has made a definitive contribution to the advancement regarding teaching, research, planning, design, construction, or management. The contributions may have been papers, or notable performance, long years of service, or specific actions to advance the science of irrigation and drainage engineering. The award includes a plaque, certificate and cash prize. Breakfast will precede the lecture, and Irrigation & Drainage Council awards will also be presented at this time.
Your choice of the Tipton or Chow Awards Breakfasts is included for all Full, Student, and Friday-Daily Registrants. Additional tickets: $25.
Friday, May 16, 2008 | 7:30 am – 8:45 am
Chow Lecture & Awards Breakfast (Watershed)
The 2008 Ven Te Chow Hydrologic Engineering Award Lecture will recognize lifetime achievement in the field of hydrologic engineering that is distinguished by exceptional achievement and significant contributions in research, education, or practice. Following the breakfast and Watershed Council & Urban Water Resources Research Council awards’ presentation, the Chow awardee will deliver the lecture on a hydrologic topic and will, in turn, receive a crystal plaque, certificate, and cash prize.
The Friday Awards Breakfast is included for all Full, Student, and Friday-Daily Registrants. Additional tickets: $25.
