Abstract
IDENTIFICATION OF SPILLWAY FAILURES DUE TO SPILLOVER OF HYDRAULIC HEAD
Track: Teaching with GIS in Higher Education
Author
The Faculty of Environmental Engineering of Antonio Nariño University has been implementing pedagogical strategies in order to integrate the students’ acquired knowledge from the lecture rooms of different subjects with the resolution of locally-generated environmental problems. The final objective is to create interdisciplinary student groups that can apply their theoretical knowledge to a real problem.
Particularly for this project, it was created a work methodology that involves students from both Water Supply System and Geographic Information System classes. The project itself, attempts to apply a methodology for the identification of spillways which fail due to an spillover of their hydraulic head.
As a context, these failures cause direct pollution without a previous treatment of the dumps from the sewerage systems to the artificial water sources of Bogota, thus causing a decreasing of the water quality in the district.
Diego Escobar
Antonio Nariño University
Cll 59 No. 43-13 apto 304 Int 1
Bogotá, Cundinamarca 00
Colombia
Phone: 5480736
E-mail: diescobar81@yahoo.com
Oscar Lopez
Antonio Nariño University
Cll 59 No. 43-13 apto 304
Bogota 000
Colombia
Phone: 2394198
E-mail: olopeze@gmail.com