FHWA and USGS cooperate to provide environmental engineering/science curricula developed for the stochastic empirical loading and dilution model (SELDM) to universities and colleges.
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Abstract:Managers and engineers at the Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA) and State Departments of
Transportation (DOTs) indicate that they need researchers,
employees, consultants, and regulators who understand the
unique challenges involved in managing and mitigating
stormwater runoff and water quality for transportation
projects. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation
with the FHWA developed the Stochastic Empirical Loading
and Dilution Model (SELDM) and the tools and training to
use the model for highway research, planning, analysis, and
environmental review. SELDM is nominally a highway-runoff
model, but it also can be used to model urban runoff quality.
Although many colleges have civil-environmental
engineering departments, the environmental-engineering
curricula commonly are focused on municipal and industrial
wastewater treatment and complex modeling methods.
Research indicates that it may take 3 to 10 hours of
curricula-development time to deliver one hour of
classroom instruction. The FHWA and USGS currently (2017)
are cooperating to provide SELDM training materials for use
in upper-level undergraduate and graduate environmental
engineering and science courses.
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