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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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
• Contributors:
  Jones, Susan ; Granato, Gregory E.
• Corporate Contributors:
  Geological Survey (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Runoff
  • Water quality management
  • Education and training
  • Computer models
  • Environmental engineering
  • Civil engineering
  • Geotechnical engineering
  • Highways
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
• 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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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/31679/dot_31679_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 167.51 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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