Water Resources Engineering Department
Head Of Department
Abdulwahd Ali Kassem
College of Engineering :: Department of Water Resources Engineering
General Specialization: Water Resources Engineering
Specific Specialization: Engineering Hydrology
Abdulwahd Ali Kassem received my BSc and MSc degree in Water Resources Engineering from Mosul University in 1997, 1999, respectively. Ph.D. in Engineering Hydrology from Salahaddin University-Erbil in 2020.
I am a lecturer in the Department of Water Resources Engineering-College of Engineering at Salahaddin University-Erbil since 2010.
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Vision and Mission
Mission
The department program combines hydraulics, fluid mechanics, hydrology, and water resources, with elements from environmental engineering, meteorology, remote sensing and systems analysis, and related disciplines such as mathematics, statistics, computer science engineering, and geology.
Vision
Water Resources Engineering program aspires to be a center of excellence in the field of Water Resources in Kurdistan and competitive in the world. The graduate program in Water Resources Engineering at Salahaddin University prepares students for careers in hydraulics, hydrology, and water resources, by providing a strong theoretical and applied foundation, and a broad-based academic background, necessary for positions in engineering design, research, and academia.
Department Facilities
Laboratories
Students in Water Resources Department have the opportunity to have hands-on experiences practically in the subjects they are taught through a sophisticated number of laboratories as mentioned below.
⇨ Sanitary and Environment lab
Sanitary Laboratory is one of the most important laboratories in Water Resources Department, College of Engineering, Salahaddin University-Erbil. This Laboratory is used by the third-year students in “Water Supply and Sewerage” Subject. This Laboratory has a very important rule for the Water Resource Engineers. Most of water or wastewater characteristics or physical and chemical properties can be tested. In addition, postgraduate students, academic staff, and researchers from outside carry out their work in this Laboratory. Furthermore, the Sanitary and Environmental Laboratory participates with the Engineering Consulting Bureau works.
⇨Hydraulic and Fluid Lab
The lab is run together with the Fluid Mechanics theory course. This introductory class covers the dynamics of fluid movement, the forces they generate, and methods for analysis. The experiments aim are programed to achieve various objectives, including determining the forces produced during fluid flow over a solid object, applying the control volume approach, illustrating momentum and energy equations, measuring viscosity, and establishing engineering correlations. complex flow phenomena such as separations and transition to turbulence are demonstrated. Students have access to experimental setups such as flow through a tube, flow over a flat plate, wind tunnel, smoke tunnel, and viscometer. The laboratory exercises involve the use of U-tube manometers, digital manometers, a hot-wire anemometer system, and data acquisition. The lab is closely aligned with the lectures to ensure that the experiments complement the content covered in the classroom.
In general, students and researchers in this department also use civil laboratories because of the similarities of their laboratory’s experiments.
⇨Soil Lab
The laboratory operates in conjunction with the soil mechanics theory course and this lab used by second and third semester for undergraduate students. Also used by post graduates and researchers.
⇨Concrete Lab
Concrete Technology Laboratory is one of the laboratories in the Water Resources Engineering Department. The lab is used by under graduate students for construction material tests. In addition, the laboratory is utilized by postgraduate students, faculty members, and external researchers
⇨Surveying Lab
Surveying laboratories is a part of the Department laboratories.
This lab helps the students to handle practical problems on surveying and levelling in field, which is an important process that must be carried out before starting and during the construction of any major engineering project
⇨Computer and Programming Lab
Academic program
2024-2025 Academic Year (Fall semester) Department Plan for Bologna Modules Details | |||||||||||
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A-Fall Semester Modules (for 2024-2025 Year Enterance students – equivalent to first year): | |||||||||||
# | Module Code | Module Name | Credits | Prerequest Module Name | Lecturer(s) (Starting with the Main Teacher) |
Total no. of Admitable Students | No. of Groups for theoretical part only (if available) | Total no. of Students in Each Group for theoretical part only | hours/ group | Prefered Hall No. with Building Code) | |
1 | 101 | General English I. | 5 | M.Sameera | |||||||
2 | 103 | Information Technology. | 5 | M.Binahi, M.Taban | |||||||
3 | 104 | Academic Debate. | 5 | Dr. Alan , M.Rashad | |||||||
4 | 105 | Kurdology. | 4 | M.Paiman | |||||||
5 | 107 | Engineering Mathematic I | 5 | M.Shawnm , M.Zhian | |||||||
6 | 6113 | Engineering Geology. | 5 | M.Enas | |||||||
B-Fall Semester Modules (for 2023-2024 Year Enterance students – equivalent to second year): | |||||||||||
# | Module Code | Module Name | Credits | Prerequest Module Name | Lecturer(s) (Starting with the Main Teacher) |
Total no. of Admitable Students | No. of Groups for theoretical part only (if available) | Total no. of Students in Each Group for theoretical part only | hours/ group | Prefered Hall No. with Building Code) | |
1 | 109 | Engineering Mathematic III | 5 | 108 | M.Sarkawt , M.Yasin | 10 | 1 | 10 | 4 | ||
2 | 6114 | Computer Programming | 5 | M.Shuwan , M.Pshtiwan | 9 | 1 | 9 | 3 | |||
3 | 6116 | Fluid Mechanics + Lab | 5 | Dr. Bruska, M.Bahar | 9 | 1 | 9 | 2 | |||
4 | 6112 | Mechanics of Material | 5 | Dr.Ghassan , M.Bahar | 10 | 1 | 10 | 2 | |||
5 | 6118 | Environmental Engineering | 5 | M.Enas | 10 | 1 | 10 | 3 | |||
6 | 6126 | Irrigation Engineering | 5 | M.Khalil , M.Arkan | 9 | 1 | 9 | 4 | |||
C-Fall Semester Modules (for 2022-2023 Year Enterance students – equivalent to third year): | |||||||||||
# | Module Code | Module Name | Credits | Prerequest Module Name | Lecturer(s) (Starting with the Main Teacher) |
Total no. of Admitable Students | No. of Groups for theoretical part only (if available) | Total no. of Students in Each Group for theoretical part only | hours/ group | Prefered Hall No. with Building Code) | |
1 | 6130 | Water Resources Mnagement | 5 | Dr.Jehan , M.Binahi | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||
2 | 6124 | Design of Concrete Structures | 5 | Dr.Ghassan | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
3 | 6122 | Engineering Hydrology | 5 | Dr.Abdulwahid , M.Bahar | 8 | 1 | 8 | 4 | |||
4 | 111 | Engineering Analysis | 5 | 110 | Dr.Abdulla , M.Rashad | 8 | 1 | 8 | 3 | ||
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D-Fall Semester Modules (for 2021-2022 Year Enterance students – equivalent to fourth year): | |||||||||||
# | Module Code | Module Name | Credits | Prerequest Module Name | Lecturer(s) (Starting with the Main Teacher) |
Total no. of Admitable Students | No. of Groups for theoretical part only (if available) | Total no. of Students in Each Group for theoretical part only | hours/ group | Prefered Hall No. with Building Code) | Notes |
1 | 6145 | Reservoir Planning, Design and Operation | 5 | M.Sarkawt , M.Shawnm | 27 | 2 | 13 and 14 | 3 | one group in system and two groups in timetable | ||
2 | 6152 | Earth Retaining Structures | 5 | Dr. Beston | 12 | 1 | 12 | 3 | |||
3 | 6163 | Dam Safety Structures | 6 | M.Taban | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
4 | 6147 | Engineering Hydrology II | 5 | Dr.Abdulwahid , M.Bahar | 29 | 2 | 15 and 14 | 3 | one group in system and two groups in timetable | ||
5 | 6167 | Design of Spillway and Stilling Basin | 5 | M.Taban , M.Pishtiwan | 24 | 1 | 24 | 3 | |||
6 | 6154 | Concrete Technology | 5 | Dr.Alan , M.Rashad | 26 | 1 | 26 | 3 | |||
7 | 6155 | Concrete Design of Hydraulic Structures | 5 | Dr.Ghassan + M.Arkan | 32 | 2 | 16 | 3 | one group in system and two groups in timetable | ||
8 | 6142 | Design of Earth Dam | 5 | M.Yasin , M.Tara | 17 | 1 | 17 | 3 | |||
9 | 6156 | Hydrological Modeling Using GIS | 5 | M.Pshtiwan , M.Zhian | 23 | 1 | 23 | 3 | |||
10 | 6134 | Intrenship | 18 | 6 | |||||||
11 | 6133 | Engineering projects | 12 | 9 |