Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Mühensilik Tasarım Projesi - Dönem 1 ve 2 (4901 ve 4902 birlikte)
	English	Civil Eng. Design I ve 2 (4901E ve 4902E together)
Course Code	INS 4901E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	7	4	3	3	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Mehmet Cüneyd Demirel Mahmut Ekrem Karpuzcu
Course Objectives		The aim of this project is to train civil engineering students for designing drainage infrastructure under climate change and intensified urban flooding events in Istanbul. The students are expected to prepare flood risk analysis reports often asked by the court and governmental institutions i.e. municipals. For that the students will learn how to use modern tools to process raster data, calculate and propagate flood wave through the landscape in computer environment. In the first half of the project, students will gather relevant hydrometeorological and digital elevation model (DEM) data from MGM, DSI, ISKI and IBB-AKOM for terrain and hydrologic analysis. Different hydrologic models such as rational, SCS, Mockus, DSI synthetic and physically based models will be utilized for calculating maximum discharge and flood hydrographs which will be input for the hydraulics model to route the flood wave until the point of interest e.g. school building. In the second part of the project, students will design the alternative drainage systems and calculate the proper pipe diameters or culvert size. If necessary buried tank design, artificial lake/reservoir, retention/detention ponds will be designed. Input preparation, reasonable water balance modeling, assessing flood risk and fast runoff, designing pipe diameters and types, plotting necessary hardware and cross-sections are the basic responsibilities of the student. If the data retrieval will be difficult for the study area alternative domains will be recommended. Also, if there is existing system in the project domain designed system and existing system capacities and capabilities will be compared.
Course Description		4901E and 4902E
Course Outcomes		Once the required design needs for the rain-water drainage system are provided to the students, the students shall be identifying the design objectives and steps to be followed for achieving these objectives. The students shall be given the relevant information and data retrieval sources (not the data itself) including soil, land use land cover, precipitation, PET. They will be asked to download necessary data for their hydrologic model and drainage system and gather any additional information (MGM, DSİ, İBB-AKOM, İSKİ, İTÜ-Yapı Teknik) to close any gap within the data. Then they will process and use all these sets of information for satisfying their input needs for the design. For fulfilling the project requirements, the students will carry out a number of alternative designs for urban rain-water drainage system, hardware configuration, orientation, type and diameter of pipes. They will learn modern tools such as QGIS, Python/R/Octave, HEC-HMS and HEC-RAS for land use land cover analysis and hydraulics simulations.
Pre-requisite(s)		-
Required Facilities		-
Other		The students will be asked to justify their choice among the alternatives at every step, form the aspects of economy (capital cost + operational cost), sustainability (impacts of their choice to the environment), manufacturability (technical feasibility of their choice with the standard available construction techniques and equipment) and aesthetics by means of tangible arguments. In case of a campus drainage project, existing rain-water collecting system to the Gölet reservoir will be analyzed. Alternative rainwater harvesting designs for each faculty building will be proposed. Sustainable campus solutions and projects will empower our university’s position in World Green-index ranking.
Textbook		Hydrology in Practice 4th Edition by Elizabeth M. Shaw (Author), Keith J. Beven (Author), Nick A. Chappell (Author), Rob Lamb (Author)
Other References		Isaac Wait lectures: https://youtu.be/rzoIwh5aHn4 Cüneyd's MTP Playlist-Youtube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaT_WNTBfPhKtV2Zot4HkeaW7_T1W0dQH

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