Course grades determined using the following weights: 60% homework, 20% midterm, 20% final. Major modeling homeworks will be due two weeks after assignment, smaller problem sets will be due one week after assignment.
| Week | Dates | Chapters | Lecture | Lab |
| 1 | Jan. 11, 13 | Organizational Meeting, Introduction to Surface Water Modeling | ||
| 2 | Jan. 18, 20 | Watershed Characteristics | ||
| 3 | Jan. 25, 27 | T3, W1.2 | Watershed Definitions, Overview | Introduction to WMS |
| 4 | Feb. 1, 3 | T3, W1.4, W2.1 | Calculating Watershed Parameters: Manning Eqn. | DEM Manipulation in WMS |
| 5 | Feb. 8, 10 | T3, W9 | Calculating Watershed Parameters: Travel Time | Travel Time Calculation |
| 6 | Feb. 15, 17 | T4 | Precipitation/Rainfall Characterization | Storm Event Specification |
| 7 | Feb. 22, 24 | T9, W8 | Hydrographs | Runoff Calculation and Hydrographs, Rational Method |
| 8 | Mar. 1, Mar. 3 | T7, W11 | Rational Method | Midterm Project |
| 9 | Mar. 8, 10 | T10-11, W5 | Stream and Reservoir Routing | WMS Tutorial Chp. 5, Using TIN's, p. 51-68 |
| - | Mar. 15, 17 | Spring Break | ||
| 10 | Mar. 22, 24 | T9, W | TR-20 Modeling | WMS 6.1 Tutorial,chp. 19, pg. 213-223 |
| 11 | Mar. 29, 31 | W9 | TR-55 Modeling | WMS Tutorial p. 121-135 |
| 12 | Apr. 5, 7 | W10 | HEC-1 Modeling | WMS Tutorial p. 137-158 |
| 13 | Apr. 12, 14 | W15 | Floodplain Delineation, Dambreak | Floodplain delineation |
| 14 | Apr. 19, 21 | Finish HEC-1 | ||
| 15 | Apr. 26, 28 | Class final project presentations |