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Course code: IISS10572o14
Semester: 2014/2015 winter
Name: Irrigation
Major: Environmental Engineering
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 5
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. inż. Leszek Pływaczyk, dr inż. Beata Olszewska
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course in English will be available if a minimum of 6 students sign up for a group. If less than 6 students sign up for the group, the course will be available in Polish with the possibility of individual support in English - Contact person: dr inż. Beata Olszewska

Learning outcomes: Knowledge Student knows rules for calculating reliable water shortages; knows ways of calculating irrigation doses; knows the basic types of equipment the subsurface irrigation and sprinkling irrigation as the systems of shaping nature potential; knows the conditions under which these irrigation can be used. Skills Student is able to assess the need for irrigation; is able to determine the water shortages; select doses for irrigation and water-drainage devices necessary to regulate the air-water relations of agricultural land; is able to use the documentation and engineering studies; is able to use familiarity with computer programs supporting designing.

Competences: Is aware of the increase of professional competence and the need to assess the effects of engineering activities in the environment.

Prerequisites: drainage

Course content: Concept for regulation of the watercourse taking into account needs land melioration. Aim regulation watercourse for the purposes of land melioration. Action of water on soil, plant and microclimate. Water shortages. Action subsurface irrigation. The amount of irrigation and conditions of use irrigation. Systems and sprinkling machine. Doses irrigation, sprinkling irrigation frequency. Selection of sprinklers. The surface and underground sprinkling machine. Effects of sprinkling irrigation.

Recommended literature: Laycock Adrian: Irrigation systems. Design, Planning and Construction. Cromwell Press 2007 UK. Hillel Daniel: Soil in the environment. Crucible of terrestrial life. Elsevier Inc 2008. Prochal Piotr (red): Podstawy melioracji rolnych t. I i II, PWRiL, Warszawa 1989. Karczmarczyk S., Nowak L. (red): Nawadnianie roślin, PWRiL, Poznań 2006.

Assessment methods: submission of 2 projects, 2 tests, written exam

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