TECH offers you a teaching format 100% online and with a team of teachers experienced in Hydraulic Works”

Previously, the construction of hydraulic works generated high costs in their execution and maintenance, in addition to not contributing to the environment by not having the tools that were linked to techniques and materials designed for sustainable construction. That is why today this type of hydraulic infrastructure works are focused on helping to mitigate environmental problems by ensuring access to clean water for communities. In this sense, the professionals will apply the concepts of surface hydrology to natural environments to perform hydrological models of basins and urban hydrological models.

This is a field that day by day is being updated in aspects of materials, methods and techniques that contribute to natural preservation and the development of the execution of works that help to make a better water management. Therefore, this professional master’s degree from TECH will provide the graduates with in-depth and advanced knowledge in the typology of dams and the main water purification processes. The focus of its content is guided to the design and construction of hydraulic infrastructures that allow the supply of water resources to urban supply and purification systems.

In this way, the professionals will acquire knowledge and specific skills, such as in the approach of solutions to real civil engineering problems using advanced software, deepening in concepts such as methodology and BIM model. A program that integrates a specialized teaching team and at the same time, supported with quality multimedia content that offers dynamism and comfort with the online modality.

TECH provides an excellent opportunity for engineers who wish to combine their work and personal responsibilities with a quality university education. The professionals will only need an electronic device with Internet connection to access the virtual platform at any time. In this way, students will be able to distribute the teaching load according to their needs.

The professionals will apply the concepts of surface hydrology to natural environments to carry out hydrological models of basins and urban hydrological models”

This professional master’s degree in Hydraulic Works Infrastructure contains the most complete and up-to-date program on the market. The most important features include:

• The development of case studies presented by experts in Civil Engineering focused on Hydraulic Works
• Graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies  
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments 
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection 

This professional master’s degree will provide you with advanced knowledge in the typology of dams and the main water purification processes"

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from sector who contribute their work experience to this educational program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

Its multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professionals with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive education programmed to learn in real situations.

The design of this program focuses on Problem-Based Learning, by means of which the professionals must try to solve the different professional practice situations that are presented throughout the academic course. For this purpose, the students will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned experts.

Deepen your skills and become an expert engineer in hydraulic infrastructures"

In TECH you will only need a device with Internet connection and you will be able to access the virtual platform at any time"

In this Proffesional Master's Degree, students aim to deepen in the development of specialized criteria in the application of new tools for the design and construction of infrastructure with BIM technology. This will allow them to increase their competitiveness in the international engineering market together with different tools of academic innovation, ensuring the successful development of the program. Upon completion, the graduates will have nurtured their knowledge in irrigation, reservoirs, canals and river channeling from the design concept and elements to be taken into account.

The professional master’s degree in Hydraulic Works Infrastructure will allow you to increase your competitiveness at an international level with the different tools of academic innovation"

General Objectives

• Specify the most relevant concepts of hydrology and hydraulics for their application in civil engineering
• Analyze the key elements that apply, in particular, to hydraulic infrastructures of the water cycle
• Develop specialized knowledge on the application of these concepts to the design of such infrastructures
• Present practical cases to apply the knowledge acquired 
• Identify the main elements of a water collection, storage and purification system
• Evaluate different alternatives for the selection of collection and/or purification systems
• Develop the main criteria for the design of the elements that are part of the system
• Base the practical cases on the theoretical knowledge acquired
• Develop new knowledge on BIM methodology, the concept of information model, collaborative workflows and modeling tools
• Generate skills in dam modeling using advanced softwares  
• Extrapolate theoretical concepts to the design and modeling of these types of structures 
• Analyze the use and application of BIM methodology in the project, construction and dam operation
• Develop new knowledge in the hydraulics of free sheet pipelines 
• Determine the particular elements that are part of a piping system 
• Extrapolate this knowledge to real civil engineering problems, proposing solutions and establishing construction procedures
• Analyze canal and channel works with computer software, basing the results on canal hydraulics
• Develop new knowledge about drinking water storage, the construction of storage structures and their operation
• Analyze the main elements that make up tanks, their materials and uses 
• Define the main criteria for reservoir design, installation of control and control equipment and asset management 
• Determine the use and application of the BIM methodology in modeling and information management

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Hydrology and Hydraulics for Civil Engineering 

• Apply the concepts of surface hydrology to natural environments in order to carry out watershed hydrological models and urban hydrological models
• Compile the different methods applied in surface hydrology to assess their potentialities 
• Develop specialized skills to carry out flood studies of fluvial areas
• Analyze the elements of general hydraulics in the design of hydraulic infrastructures
• Generate new knowledge on the particular elements that are part of a hydraulic infrastructure 
• Define the hydraulic variables that must intervene in our design of channels and pipelines, identifying the hydrodynamics of the infrastructure

Module 2. Dams, catchments and water treatment. Elements and design  

• Develop key knowledge of dam typology and its application
• Determine the fundamentals of dam design, according to their typology
• Analyze water catchment systems 
• Establish the elements of a catchment 
• Examine the main processes for water purification 
• Identify the main parameters for the selection of treatment systems 
• Apply theoretical knowledge for the presentation of solutions to practical cases 

Module 3. Modeling of dams 

• Examine the fundamentals of BIM methodology applied to Civil Engineering 
• Determine the workflows in the development of a BIM model of dams 
• Develop skills in modeling vertical and horizontal structures 
• Analyze design solutions and alternatives in dam modeling 
• Establish the main BIM objects that make up a dam model 
• Propose solutions to real civil engineering problems using advanced software 
• Apply the BIM methodology assuming the role of modeler and enriching models with the necessary information for their construction and exploitation

Module 4. Channels and river channelization. Elements and design  

• Develop the general hydraulic concepts and fundamentals of free sheet pipelines 
• Determine the elements that are part of hydraulic pipelines  
• Examine the general aspects of pipeline routing 
• Analyze in depth the concrete-lined channels, deepening in the considerations to take into account, as well as in the constructive procedures 
• Establish the elements of flow regulation in canals in order to carry out an optimal management of the infrastructure 
• Specify special elements that are part of the pipelines 
• Apply the theoretical concepts to the simulation of pipelines in computer software 

Module 5. Reservoirs, elements and design 

• Specify the functions, uses and classifications of reservoirs
• Analyze the fundamentals of water supply reservoir design
• Develop the general aspects of reservoirs, auxiliary structures and installations 
• Identify the main criteria for reservoir sizing 
• Propose solutions to water storage problems and the management and maintenance of storage structures 
• Apply the BIM methodology, proposing a modeling strategy for vertical structures and the incorporation of information for their management

Module 6. Irrigation. Elements and design 

• Specify the factors involved in irrigation 
• Address the fundamentals of irrigation network design 
• Develop the general aspects that make up an irrigation network 
• Determine the main criteria for sizing irrigation networks 
• Analyze solutions using drip and sprinkler network techniques 
• Apply BIM methodology in the design and analysis of irrigation networks 
• Examine BIM deliverables of an irrigation network providing the student with knowledge applicable to any piping system 

Module 7. Upstream supply systems. Water transport pipelines  

• Specify the basic hydraulic fundamentals of large water conveyance pipelines 
• Develop the fundamentals of water hammer phenomena 
• Determine the general design aspects of an upstream water supply system 
• Identify the main sizing criteria 
• Analyze solutions for system protection elements using specialized water hammer software 
• Propose solutions for the commissioning, maintenance and operation of upstream water supply systems 
• Apply BIM methodology in the design and analysis of upstream distribution systems 

Module 8. Urban drainage and design 

• Specify the problems of sanitary engineering 
• Examine the fundamentals of urban drainage network design 
• Develop the general aspects that make up an urban drainage network 
• Identify the main criteria for sizing a drainage network 
• Analyze solutions through the simulation of sewerage networks 
• Propose solutions to urban flooding problems based on rainwater retention basins 
• Apply BIM methodology in the design and analysis of urban drainage networks 

Module 9. Sustainable Urban Drainage System 

• Specify the background and current problems in the drainage of current urban developments 
• Define the types of SUDS according to their function 
• Develop the fundamental pillars in the design of SUDS 
• Analyze the SUDS for detention, retention, filtration, infiltration and treatment 
• Identify the main design parameters of each typology 
• Specify the use of each one of them 
• Apply the design knowledge to the use of digital construction 

Module 10. Debugging. Elements and design 

• Analyze the main characteristics of wastewater 
• Establish the appropriate processes for wastewater purification 
• Present basic considerations on the implementation of wastewater treatment plants
• Generate the basic scheme of a WWTP 
• Develop a simple design of a conventional WWTP 
• Evaluate the waste generated, and its possibilities of utilization 
• Apply the acquired knowledge to the digital construction of a WWTP

You will achieve your objectives with the support of the most updated and innovative content that only TECH can provide”