Hydropower Engineering I

Objective: Upon the completion of the course students will be able to:

• Acquire the basic concept of hydropower development
• Plan, design and analyze different hydropower scheme components
• Construct and supervise hydropower schemes

Outcomes: Upon the completion of this course students will be able to:

• identify energy sources
• Know the hydropower potential of Ethiopia and status of the world hydropower
• Plan and design hydropower scheme components
• Analyze hydrology of hydropower
• Estimate water potential
• Predict load and assess demand
  
• Identify hydropower plants and determine plant capacity 
• Design water passage structures such as intake, canal, tunnel, forebays, surge tank and penstocks and analyze water hammer/surge pressure