Department of Water Engineering (DOW), founded in 2008, has two main majors including Hydraulic Structures (HS) and Water Resources Management (WRM). There is no denying the fact that Water Engineering is of high importance for different reasons in our country. In the first place, with the rapid rise of population in megacities, there is a ferocious demand for optimal usage of communities water resources in domestic, industrial, and agricultural sections. Needless to say, the primary cause of DOW is to raise well-trained individuals, particularly among the younger generation to fulfill societies needs in the water section.

Introduction to the fields:

Major: Water Resources Management

By the major emphasis of WRM, graduate education give students a golden opportunity to enhance their knowledge level of Water Engineers to have a key role in detecting surface and groundwater resources, controlling pollution of water resources, and hydrologic studies of watersheds. More importantly, well-educated water engineers are expected to earn a reasonable decision-making sense in the critical state of drought and flood events, and management of water projects. More specifically, the main research topics of WRM are briefly listed as:

-      Climate changes and downscaling

-      Flood routing in watersheds and rivers

-      Uncertainty studies in water resources allocation

-      Quantitative and qualitative analysis of surface and groundwater

-      Various applications of Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in WRM such as evaluation of evapotranspiration, precipitation, flow rivers, and localization of Dams

-      Analysis of water resources systems using classical optimization approaches and soft computing techniques

 Major: Hydraulic Structures

The main purpose of Hydraulic and Hydraulic Structures Engineering is to analyze, design, and optimize structures that deal with water, as well as numerical or experimental simulation of the related phenomena such as flow patterns and sediment transport. In the following, some majors of HS are succinctly described:

- Scouring phenomenon at hydraulic structures such as around foundations, bridge piers, abutments, bellow pipelines, downstream of various spillways, grade-control structures, and culvert outlets.

- Hydraulic analysis of flow patterns over spillways and weirs.

-Rivers protection from erosion.

-Investigations on the hydrodynamics of flows dense and sediments flushing in Dam reservoirs, rip currents, and waves in marine environments.

-Analysis of dam break and seepage through the body of Earth Dams

- Analysis of water hammer phenomenon in Water Networks Distribution and Break Rate (BR) prediction of water pipelines

- Dynamic analysis of different hydraulic structures such as gas/fluids-carrying-buried pipelines in marine environments, Earth and concrete dams