CEE 4200

Managing Water Resources in a Changing World

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

The field of water resources management is an exciting showcase of the many challenges that await civil and environmental engineers. On one hand, increasing water demand from the urban, energy, and agricultural sectors are aggravating multi-sector conflicts. On the other hand, several drivers of change, such as global warming or socio-economic development, make future water demand and availability deeply uncertain. How can we reconcile these challenges? How can we plan and manage water resources systems in an integrated, sustainable, and just way? Building on the legacy of research in water resources systems, this course is designed to equip the new generation of professionals with the forma mentis and mathematical modelling tools that are needed to discover and negotiate the highly uncertain tradeoffs we face in balancing the water resources demands of the future.

Prerequisites REF-FA25/Corequisites REF-FA25 CS 1110 or CS 1112 and CEE 3040 or ENGRD 2700. Corequisites: None.

Exploratory Studies (CU-SBY)

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Outcomes REF-FA25

• Identify the actors and decision-makers of a water management problem.
• Describe the main components of a water system through mathematical models.
• Develop and evaluate optimization-based models for the planning and management of river basins.

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