Department of Water Engineering
Water Engineering Resources
- Hydrology (quantity and quality and circulation)
- Water Cycle modeling (Air, ground, river and reservoir phases), Water accounting, Water balance in different schemes and phases
- Surface and groundwater evaluation, monitoring, simulation and modeling (quantity and quality)
- Water Planning and Evaluation systems, Optimization of resources and consumptions
- Water Harvesting, Natural and artificial recharges, aquifer restoration issues
- Environmental water requirements, Wetland simulation, soil and water pollution
- Integrated Water Resources Management, DSS, Water Governance and International affairs of water rights(Arax, Zab and common basins with neighborhood countries)
- Socioeconomic issues of water resources
- Erosion and sediment protection, watershed management studies
- Urmia Lake simulation, evaluation, monitoring and restoration from water resource aspects
Hydraulic and Irrigation Structures
- River and Coastal Engineering: Restoration, Training and Bank Protection.
- Sediment Transport in Rivers and Lakes.
- Design and Operation of Irrigation Structures: Water supply, Conveyance, and Distribution
- Numerical and Physical Modeling of Structures
- Hydrodynamic modeling of Lake Urmia
Irrigation and Drainage
- Design and Management of Irrigation and Drainage Networks
- Soil, water and plant relationship
- Water productivity improvement
- Water accounting in irrigation schemes
- Water and solute transport in porous media
-Improvement of irrigation methods
- Assessment of irrigation systems
- Crop Water Requirements
Geospatial information technology (GIT) Unit
- Geographic information system, geodatabases design and implementation in water and agriculture-related fields
- Remote sensing and Photogrammetry, surveying, land use change detection
- Hi-tech (Geospatial intelligence network in the water industry, GPS, Drones)