Irrigation System Design

Course Description

Principles of soil physics and plant water use applied to irrigation system design. Design of gravity, pressurized, and trickle irrigation systems, improving on-farm water management, performance characteristics of pumps and other irrigation equipment. Lec/lab. Offered alternate years.

Course Objectives

Students who successfully complete this course have:

• Understood economics of irrigation management
• Learned hydrology of soil-plant system
• Learned characteristics of various irrigation systems
• Learned hydraulic properties of pumps and pipes