Spring 2027

Hydroscience

Introductory course covering the water cycle, hydrology, hydraulics, coastal engineering, and water resources management for conservation and utilization.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Steven Loheide3.8/5

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 2.96 GPA, 35.8% A/AB (n=53 letter grades); Fall 2025: 2.95 GPA, 36.1% A/AB (n=61 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.05 GPA, 47.3% A/AB (n=74 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • List and explain the fundamental processes of the hydrologic cycle

  • Explain the importance of hydrology and water resources in society

  • Use hydrologic principles to address engineering problems related to water supply, flooding, and environmental quality

  • Derive and use quantitative relationships to describe hydrologic behavior

  • Examine the causes of and solutions for the sustainability challenge of water availability under conditions of changing land use, climate, and demand and environmental issues.

  • Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenges of water management and identify potential tradeoffs and interrelationships among these dimensions

  • Synthesize the connections to and importance of hydrological processes and methods in broader contemporary interdisciplinary water resources and environmental issues

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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MATH 222, graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students

    • MATH 222
    • graduate/professional standing
    • member of Engineering Guest Students
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    • MATH 222
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Professors

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Raw average: 4.29/5 from 7 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 2.97 GPA, 29.3% A/AB (n=58 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.03 GPA, 40.4% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Fall 2025: 2.95 GPA, 36.1% A/AB (n=61 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

STEVEN LOHEIDE is recorded teaching in Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 800
LAB 303Classroom Instruction0 / 200
LAB 301Classroom Instruction0 / 200
LAB 305Classroom Instruction0 / 200
LAB 302Classroom Instruction0 / 00
LAB 304Classroom Instruction0 / 200

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 2.96 GPA, 35.8% A/AB (n=53 letter grades); Fall 2025: 2.95 GPA, 36.1% A/AB (n=61 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.05 GPA, 47.3% A/AB (n=74 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Water cycle and environmental interactions
  • Hydrology, hydraulics, coastal engineering, and water resources

Skills

  • Apply hydrologic principles to solve engineering problems involving water supply, flooding, and environmental quality.
  • Derive and apply quantitative relationships to model hydrologic systems.

Grades

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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.21 GPA average error.

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Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

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CIVENGR 311 · Spring 2027

Hydroscience

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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