Course Syllabus

Course Information：

Year-Semester	Course Number	Course Name	Phase	Credits	Hours	Required/Elective	Instructor	Class	Student NO.	Withdraw	Note
Spring Semester Year 2024	326583	Stream Ecological Engineering Method	1	3.0	3	★	Min-cheng Tu	4CE3A 4CE3B	0	0	土木三甲乙合開,2週【停開】

Course Plan：

Instructor	Min-cheng Tu　Office Hours
Email	mtu@ntut.edu.tw
Last Updated	2023-12-11 10:55:26
Course Objective	Most human settlements were close to rivers. Therefore, modifying river channels to reduce the chance and magnitude of floods has been the main focus of conventional ways to tame rivers. However, the traditional ways of cementing river channels destroy natural habitats and are not aesthetically pleasing. Fluvial ecological engineering is a new field, which achieves the purposes of flood prevention, landscaping, recreation, and ecological conservation by using natural materials and following natural hydrological trends of rivers. The course will first introduce the evolution of river engineering throughout history. Because ecological engineering has to conform with the natural trend of river evolving, principles of fluvial geomorphology will be then introduced in the class. After students have these basic understandings, the course will continue on introductions of concepts, methods, and procedures. Field cases of fluvial ecological engineering in Taiwan as well as other countries will be introduced to students.
Course Schedule	(Tentative) Week 1: Introduction Week 2: History of river management and rehabilitation Weeks 3-6: Fluvial geomorphology Weeks 7-8: Concepts and procedures Weeks 9-10: Midterm presentation (data collection) Weeks 11-12: Design steps Weeks 13-14: Case studies Weeks 15-16: Final presentation
Evaluation and grading policy	(Tentative) 5% Submission of team members and project summary 25% First oral report (10% Data completeness，10% Data collection efforts，5% Presentation skills) 35% Final exam 35% Final oral report (10% Slide design，10% Details of contents，15% Presentation skills)
Materials	All right reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Foreign-language textbooks:No Materials compiled by the instructor References: 林鎮洋，陳彥璋，吳明聖，(2004)，河溪生態工法，明文書局 Knighton, D. (1998). Fluvial Forms & Processes. Hodder Education, London, UK.
The access to curricular consultation	Emails, office hours
The course corresponds to the SDGs
Note	Under third-stage pandemic lockdown, please log into the Google meeting room "izu-wqak-pdg" during class hours. The instructor will be in a conference between 5/20-5/30. The labs of those two weeks are pre-recorded and will be available in May.