Bachelor Courses Description of Section Hydrogeology
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Course and Code
EHG 201
Course Title
Data Processing And Statistical Geology
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Course and Code
EHG 202
Course Title
Aspects Of Scientific Research
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Course Descriptions Definition of terms, measure of central
tendency, measure of dispersion, linear regression, time series,
preparation of geological data, data processing utilizing computer
software.
PrerequisitesMATH101,EMR 201
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Course Descriptions General principles and procedure used in
scientific research including defining the problem and how to solve it
through the necessary studies. Analysis and interpretation of laboratory
tests, report writing. More emphasis will be directed toward how to
write a research proposal and a research paper.
Prerequisites
NONE
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Course and Code
EHG 313
Course Title
Groundwater Geology
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Course and Code
EHG 314
Course Title
Introduction To Groundwater Hydrochemistry
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Course Descriptions Groundwater occurrence in igneous, metamorphic
and sedimentary rocks-Influence of the geological structure on
groundwater flow- Aquifers types and their characteristics.
Prerequisites ESR 211,EHG 311
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Course Descriptions Physical and chemical characteristics of water,
water types, water sources, salinity, chemical composition of
groundwater, general processes affecting the water quality, representing
the water analysis of data graphically (manually and by using computer
programs
PrerequisitesCHEM101,EMR 241
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Course and Code
EHG 315
Course Title
Groundwater Hydraulics
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Course and Code
EHG 316
Course Title
Introduction To Hydrogeology
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Course Descriptions Basic definition, steady and unsteady state
flow. Groundwater flow towards wells. Pumping tests and evaluating their
data using various techniques. Recovery tests. Well interfering. This
course includes a 3-day field trip.
Prerequisites EHG 312
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Course Descriptions Hydrological cycle: parts and its engineering
importance of ground water, its movement and distribution, steady and
unsteady flow. Aquifer constants. Pumping Tests. Well hydraulics. Water
quality.
PrerequisitesMATH101,ESR211
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Course and Code
EHG 399
Course Title
Training In Specialization
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Course and Code
EHG 401
Course Title
Statistical Geology
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Course Descriptions Methods of field investigation of groundwater
resources, well inventory, chemical and physical properties of
groundwater. Measurements of surface water discharge. Soil infiltration,
porosity and permeability. Pumping and recovery tests. Writing
scientific report and drawing hydro geological maps for the studied area
(field trip 21 days).
Prerequisites EHG 315/EGP471
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Course Descriptions The development of statistical methods useful in
geology, including principal concepts, descriptive statistics, multiple
regression, random variables, probability distributions, and estimation
and testing hypotheses.
Prerequisites EHG 201
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Course and Code
EHG 408
Course Title
Seminar
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Course and Code
EHG 411
Course Title
Technology Of Water Wells
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Course Descriptions Series of lectures on selected topics
representing modern orientations and studies in the field of
hydrogeology. Each student will be assigned a topic of current hydro
geological interest on which he will be expected to prepare and present
a talk using modern techniques.
Prerequisites DEP. APPROVAL
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Course Descriptions Determining the suitable well location, well
design characteristics, well completion and well development, large
diameter wells, well screens types and gravel packs, well efficiency and
well losses, well maintenance and rehabilitation.
Prerequisites EHG 315
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Course and Code
EHG 412
Course Title
Management And Planning Of Groundwater Resources
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Course and Code
EHG 413
Course Title
Hydrogeology Of The Kingdom
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Course Descriptions Groundwater planning and management, definition
of management and planning, water systems, concepts and fields of water
management, data needed for management and its elements, planning
principles and steps applied to groundwater resources, optimization
analysis, optimal management and sensitivity analysis, cost-benefit
analysis, multi-objective project analysis, financial and economic
analysis.
Prerequisites EHG 315
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Course Descriptions Introduction, hydrology of Saudi Arabia, factors
controlling the natural resources types, aquifers, hydro geological
classification of sedimentary aquifers and their characters, water
problems, case studies.
Prerequisites EHG 399
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Course and Code
EHG 414
Course Title
Isotope Hydrology
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Course and Code
EHG 415
Course Title
Groundwater Pollution
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Course Descriptions Atomic Structure, radiation activity in elements
and measurements, isotopes types, environmental isotopes, application of
environmental isotopes in groundwater.
Prerequisites EHG 314
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Course Descriptions Introduction and definition of pollution, Water
contamination sources (surface – subsurface). This includes types of
contamination, characteristics of contamination sources, radioactive
contamination, trace and heavy metals contamination, solute plume shape
in different media, watching of contamination, numerical and analytical
methods of solute transport, contamination remediation and control, case
studies.
PrerequisitesCHEM101, EHG314
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Course and Code
EHG 416
Course Title
Introduction To Groundwater Modeling
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Course and Code
EHG 418
Course Title
Environmental Hydrology
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Course Descriptions Types of models. Basic groundwater flow
equations. Mathematical background. Types of groundwater models and
solutions. Applications.
Prerequisites EHGF 315
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Course Descriptions The water cycle and its different elements and
the importance of hydrology to society and the environment in which we
live, and a statistical analysis of hydrological data. Mobile mechanical
sediment rivers and the calculation methods of sedimentation rate.
Analysis of the curves of water, the risk of flooding and ways to avoid.
This course contains the environmental concepts and its related basic
fundamentals.
Prerequisites
EEG 201
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Last Update
5/6/2012 3:50:00 PM
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