ABOUT
ABOUT

Background

As one of currently existing departments of HiT, Water Resources and Environmental Engineering was launched in 2001. The department was renamed as ‘Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering’ by merging both major Water resources and Hydraulic engineering courses in 2015.
The department currently offers an undergraduate program in Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering and Engineering Hydrology in the regular program. With more than thirteen years of experience in offering the under-graduate program and observing the current demand in the field of hydraulic engineering due to increased demand for manpower in this field of study, the department has also launched a Master's Degree program in Hydraulic Engineering.
The main objectives of the program are to promote the advancement of water resources development and environmental protection through the provision of training, research and consultancy services in the water sector. The program has a mission of offering relevant and quality education and training; conducting demand driven research, and rendering accessible community services.
Primarily, the department would like to address the current necessity of specialized engineers for the field of practice and research, senior managers, and leaders in the field of the construction industry with master's degree specialization in a specific subject such as hydraulic structures and hydropower, as per the requirements of the country.
The program concentrates mainly on the core courses of hydraulic engineering design, planning, and management, apart from the allied courses on applied mathematics, statistics, and research methods. It is intimately related to the design of bridges, dams, channels, canals, and levees, and to both sanitary and environmental engineering. It is also concerned with the actual development concept designs for the various features that interact with water, such as spillways and outlet work for dams, culverts for highways, cross drainage and related structures for irrigation projects, and cooling-water facilities for thermal power plants.

Vision

Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering aspires to be a centre of excellence in field of Water resources in our country, Africa and competitive in world by 2050

Mission

Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering programs has a mission of offering relevant, quality education, produce qualified and competent graduate students, and training and conducting demand driven researches.

📘 Program Educational Objectives (PEO)

  • To produce highly qualified human power in Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering for higher learning and research institutions in the country.
  • To train professionals capable of planning, designing, modeling, supervising, and constructing hydraulic structures such as dams, headworks, diversion structures, spillways, terminal structures, and sediment transport systems, with due consideration to reliability, economy, maintenance, and operation.
  • To train people who can handle and solve specific problems related to the planning and construction of hydraulic structures and their management.
  • To build capacity in Hydraulic Engineers for the design of river training and river modeling techniques, including data collection, processing, and analysis.
  • To train qualified human power to design and conduct hydraulic research, experiments, and tests for both practical and scientific purposes.
  • To produce engineers equipped with the skills to provide advisory services and strengthen academic programs of the university in relation to water resources development.
  • To produce leaders and managers in this field who have ample knowledge of the subject matter, enabling them to command construction teams to achieve quality, safety, and economy in construction.
  • To undertake project identification, pre-feasibility, and feasibility studies of water resources projects.
  • To plan water resources and hydropower projects; design hydraulic structures required for hydropower systems, water supply systems, irrigation systems, and structures related to environmental protection works.
  • To prepare complete contract documents for water resources projects such as hydropower, water supply, irrigation, and environmental protection works (e.g., wastewater and solid waste management).
  • To plan, design, manage, and supervise the construction of hydraulic and hydropower structures and related civil engineering works

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