| Study programme competencies |
| Code | Study programme competences |
| A15 | General vision and balanced of the basic aspects and application of underground hydrologic from the needs of civil engineering. Capacity to Project or interpret the different hydraulic trials of hydrodynamic characterization, interpret hydrogeological maps and know the constructive aspects of the water uptake |
| B1 | To resolve problems effectively |
| B2 | To apply critical thinking, logic and creativity |
| B3 | To work individually with initiative |
| B4 | To communicate effectively in work surroundings |
| B5 | Continuous recycling of knowledge in a general perspective in a global situation of water engineering |
| B6 | Understanding of the need to analyse history to understand the present |
| B7 | Facility to integrate in multidiscipline teams |
| B8 | Capacity to organize and plan |
| B9 | Capacity for analysis, synthesis and structure of information and ideas |
| C1 | To understand the importance of the enterprising culture and to know the means at the reach of the enterprising people |
| C2 | To value knowledge critically, technology and available information to resolve problems that they will face |
| C3 | To assume as a professional and citizen the importance of learning throughout life |
| C4 | To value the importance of the investigation, innovation and technology development in the social –economic advance and cultural in society |
| C5 | To posses and understand knowledge that gives a base or oportunity to be original in the development and for applications of ideas, often in the context of investigation |
| C6 | The students must be able to apply the acquired knowledge and their capacity to resolve problems in new surrandings or not well known within wider contexts (or multidiscipline) related with the study area |
| C7 | The students must be able to integrate knowledge and to affront the complexity to formulate judgements from information that, been incomplete or limited, include reflexions about social responsabilities and ethics related to the application of the knowledge and judments |
| C8 | The students must be able to comunicate their conclusions, knowledge and the last reasons that support them, to spezialated publics and not spezialated in a clear and unambiguous way. |
| C9 | The student must possess the learning ability with permits them to continues to study in a manner wich will be in a great measure self directed and individual |
| Learning aims | |||
| Learning outcomes | Study programme competences | ||
| Overview of basic and applied aspects of hydrogeology from needs of civil engineering. Ability to design and interpret the hydraulics tests and hydrodynamic characterization of medium, interpreting hydrogeological maps and constructive ways of sources | AC15 |
BC1 BC2 BC3 BC4 BC5 BC6 BC7 BC8 BC9 |
CC1 CC2 CC3 CC4 CC5 CC6 CC7 CC8 CC9 |
| Contents |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Introduction to the Hydrologic Cycle | Components Evapotranspiration and potencial Evapotranspiration Infiltration and recharge Baseflow |
| Geologic materials | Continental environments:erosion, transportation and deposition Kind of depositis: fluvial, eolian, lacustrine and galcial Uplift, diagenesis and erosion Tectonism and the formation of fractures |
| Ground water movement | Basic concepts Darcy´s experimental law and field extensions Propierties: porosity and hydraulic conductivity Filed Mapping Flow in fractured rocks |
| Main equations of flow | Conservation of fluid mass The storage properties of porous media Boundary conditions and flow nets |
| Flow in the unsaturated zone | Richards ´s equation Unsaturated flow in fractured rocks |
| Solute and particle transport | Advection Basic concepts of dispersion: diffusion and mechanical dispersion |
| Principles of aqueous geochemistry | Aqueous systems Equilibrium versus kinetic descriptions Equilibrium models of reaction Kinetcis reactions Ground water composition |
| Chemical reactions | Homogeneous reactions: Acid-base reactions, complextion reactions, oxidation-reductions reactions Heterogeneous reactions: dissolution/precipitation, reactions on surfaces |
| Saline water/ Sweet Water interface | Saline intrusion Methods |
| Hydraulic testing | Conventional hydraulic testing Single borehole test hydraulic testing in fractured or low permeability rocks Others methods of testing |
| Ground water as a resource | Land subsidence Coastal aquifers drainage on slopes road drainge dams |
| Planning | ||||
| Methodologies / tests | Competencies | Ordinary class hours | Student’s personal work hours | Total hours |
| Seminar | A15 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 | 30 | 30 | 60 |
| Guest lecture / keynote speech | A15 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 | 30 | 30 | 60 |
| Personalized attention | 30 | 0 | 30 | |
| (*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students. | ||||
| Methodologies |
| Methodologies | Description |
| Seminar | Practical lectures related to the theoretical aspects regarded at the magistral lectures |
| Guest lecture / keynote speech | Regular lectures where the main theoretical contents of the subjects are regarded |
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| Assessment | |||
| Methodologies | Competencies | Description | Qualification |
| Guest lecture / keynote speech | A15 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 | The knowledge of the concepts developed at the magistral lectures will be assesed and considered for the final mark | 50 |
| Seminar | A15 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 | The attendance to the semminars and the work being developed at the semminars will be considered for the final mark | 50 |
| Assessment comments | |||
| Sources of information |
| Basic |
Fieter, C.W. (2001). Applied hydrogeology. Prenice hall
Feiter, C.W. (1999). Contaminant Hydrogeology. Prenice hall
Bear, J. (1972). Dynamics of fluids in porous media. American Elsevier
Bear, J. (1979). Hydraulics of groundwater. Mc Graw Series in water resources and environmental engineering
Weight, Willis D. (2009). Hydrogeology field manual. Mc Graw Hill
Domenico, P.A. and Schwartz, F.W. (1990). Physycal and chemical hydrogeology. Wiley |
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