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VIrtual Campus In hydrology and water
Resources  VICAIRE Project 
by A. Musy EPFL (CH)R. Drobot UTCB (RO)
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VIrtual Campus In hydrology and water
Resources  VICAIRE Project 
An e-learning and distance training courses in
Water Resources Use and Management for students
engineers interested scientists
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• E-learning facility
• Modern teaching method
• with no direct contact with the students
• with a course support as exhaustive as possible
  - on a suitable computational platform (Web) -
  allowing - interconnections between the
  various documents offered
  - interactivities between the people
  concerned
• offering a specific discipline, validated by a
  international system of credits (ECTS)
• using modern techniques of communication
  (internet, umts,)

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E-learning teaching system

• Main objectives and advantages
• Accessibility to a greater number of people
• Flexibility in the training of students
• More person-oriented teaching

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• VICAIRE Partners
• Hydrology Land Improvement (HYDRAM-ISTE), Swiss
  Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne,
  Switzerland
• Faculty of Hydrotechnology, Technical University
  of Civil Engineering (TUCEB), Bucarest, Romania
• Faculty of Hydrotechnics,  Politehnica 
  University Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania,
• Faculty of Hydrotechnics, Technical University
   Gh. Asachi  of Iasi (TUI), Iasi, Romania
• Faculty of Geology and Geography, Sofia
  University  St. Kliment Ohridski , Sofia,
  Bulgaria
• Kharkiv State Technical University of Civil
  Engineering and Architecture (KSTUCA), Kharkiv,
  Ukraine
• Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of
  Ecological Problems (USRIEP), Kharkiv, Ukraine
• Technical University of Moldova (UTM), Chisinau,
  Moldova

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• VICAIRE Sponsors
• VICAIRE was proposed within the  SCOPES
  2000-2003 Scientific Cooperation between Eastern
  Europe and Switzerland .
• The project was accepted in October in 2000 and
  launched in January 2001. Its main sponsors are
• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
• Each partners Institution through internal
  manpower
• Hydrology Land Improvement Laboratory
  (HYDRAM- ISTE), Swiss Federal Institute of
  Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland through
  internal manpower

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• Main objectives of the VICAIRE project
• Elaborate and develop an international and
  competitive distance learning programme in the
  field of hydrology and water resources
• Provide hydrology and water resources courses,
  primarily, to students within the partner
  institutions by offering them appropriate
  teaching support documents with interactive
  connections, and, secondly, propose them to other
  students of the field, worldwide
• Improve and modernise the existing teaching
  systems of higher education in the partners
  institutes by adding web-based courses easily
  available
• Train specialists in the above-mentioned fields,
  capable of managing surface and groundwater
  resources in any country, whatever its
  geographical and/or socio-economical situation

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Module 0  Overview and Guide This particular
module has been set up to present the general
organisation and structure of the e-learning
course to students and other users. It offers
several facilities divided in three parts,
namely Generalities - Introduction - Presen
tation of the modules Team - Partner
institutions - Module leaders - Authors
Guides - Pedagogical concept - Recommendatio
ns - Reading guide
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• Structure of the e-learning VICAIRE programme
• Five scientific modules on hydrology and water
  resources
• 1.A. Basic Hydrology introduction and
  description of the water cycle processes (11
  chapters)
• 1.B. Engineering Hydrology criteria and
  modelling for the design of water works and
  their impacts (12 chapters)
• Qualitative Hydrology water quality and
  polluted system (13 chapters)
• Groundwater Hydrology behavior and use of
  water in the porous media (12 chapters)
• Management of Water Resources hydrosystems
  behaviours management and decision-making
  principles (8 chapters)

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• Structure of module
• Each scientific module is composed of several
  chapters and subchapters
• an extended summary, available for downloads
• textbooks with interactive links and keywords
• exercises with solutions
• quiz and self evaluation tests
• extended web-links (not completely implemented)
• a specific bibliography

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• CONTENT Module 1 a Basic Hydrology 
• The hydrological cycle
• Watershed characteristics
• Precipitation
• Evaporation and Transpiration
• Infiltration
• Surface and sub-surface storage
• Runoff and sub-surface flows
• Hydrographs
• Instrumentation and monitoring
• Hydrological data
• General bibliography

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• CONTENT Module 1 b  Engineering
  Hydrology 
• Basic concepts of the systems theory
• Design storm
• Production function
• Transfer function
• Routing Function, Part 1  Hydrological
  approach 
• Routing Function, Part 2  Hydraulic approach 
• Mathematical modelling in hydrology (basic
  concepts)
• Catchment hydrology, Part 1  Floods models 
• Catchment hydrology, Part 2  Medium- low-flow
  models 
• Urban hydrology
• Parameters calibration
• General bibliography

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• CONTENT Module 2  Qualitative Hydrology 
• Terminology and definitions
• Water quality characteristics
• Water quality and hydrological cycle
• Natural quality in streams and rivers
• Temperature and quality of water
• Pollution self-purification of streams and
  rivers
• Surface-water quality in urban areas
• Transport of reacting solute in streams and
  rivers
• Water quality modelling
• Water quality management
• Eco-hydrological consequences of polluted
  streams and rivers
• River sediments
• General bibliography

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• CONTENT Module 3  Groundwater Hydrology 
• Porous media
• Aquifers
• Water in porous media
• Water potential in porous media
• Darcys Law
• General flow equations in porous media
• Transport equation in porous media
• Field and laboratory tests
• Regional groundwater flow
• Mathematical modelling of regional aquifers
• Rehabilitation of the polluted aquifers
• General bibliography

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• CONTENT Module 4  Management of Water
  resources 
• Water resources
• Modern water-economy complex, water supply,
  water consumption, water usage
• Water legislation, economic and ecological
  constraints
• Strategy of water resources management
• Water resources monitoring
• Protection of water resources
• Water resources management tools
• Case studies
• General bibliography

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• VICAIRE requirements
• (at the Institution level)
• To be able to use this e-learning facility, the
  elements below should be available
• a computer room with web access, opened to
  students with opening hours similar to a
  library
• a computer system organisation (intranet or
  internet) for a forum of discussion (questions
  and remarks)
• in the institution concerned and during the
  semester in which the courses taken place,
  scientific personnel trained to answers the
  questions within a 24-hours period, maximum, if
  possible
• email connection for the teacher concerned

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