Self-paced eLearning PCSWMM/SWMM5 Course

The self-paced eLearning course is provided with the time-limited PCSWMM/SWMM5 software and designed to help you become proficient with the modeling packages. In 16 hours of tutorials and exercises, you will learn the latest version of the PCSWMM graphical decision support system, as well as the internals of the latest version of the Stormwater Management Model (SWMM5). The PCSWMM software (included with the course, together with all documentation and instructional materials) is time-limited, and an appropriate license must be obtained later to maintain the software. The software includes annual unlimited support.

Our eLearning course (training workshops over the web) involve sixteen hours of self-paced training over the five day period, using email and our web forum. Participants receive one copy each of the SWMM Manual, Rules and the Workbook (at shipping cost), and download required software and application files, install and test the software beforehand at the computer that they will use for the training.  Presentations are MS PowerPoint with audio and students work through detailed workbook instructions for four or five major application-exercises each taking three or four hours, and communicate with us through email and our web-forum. The instructors respond instantly to student questions during normal office hours (we are in the EST time zone, GMT+5).

Once you have successfully registered, we will confirm your order and email you the information to begin the course immediately. All workshop materials will be couriered next day.

Cost

Self-paced eLearning course $495.00

User's Guide to SWMM5 - 12th Edition $149.95

Rules for Responsible Modeling - 4th Edition $49.95

Total $694.90

To evaluate how this scaleable, integrated and open tool set can improve your current modeling work, register now for one of these flexible courses. To request more info, please email us.

About PCSWMM

PCSWMM is the all-new version of CHI's comprehensive, GIS-based, graphical decision support system for US EPA SWMM5 urban drainage modeling (sanitary, storm and/or combined systems). Built from the ground up around a modern, powerful GIS engine that works seamlessly with the latest GIS data formats, PCSWMM implements advanced, intelligent tools for streamlining sewer collection system model development, optimization and analysis. With full support for the latest, fully dynamic US EPA SWMM5 hydrology/hydraulics engine, PCSWMM provides a scaleable (unlimited model sizes), and complete array of professional, enterprise level, urban drainage system modeling tools for an unbelievably affordable price.

PCSWMM is the most powerful urban drainage modeling application for working with GIS/CAD based data. PCSWMM enables both engineers and GIS professionals to work on the same data, improving workflow and increasing the flexibility of your model building and analysis toolset. In addition to direct support for ESRI ArcGIS geodatabases*, ArcView shape files and ArcInfo E00 files, PCSWMM supports the leading open standard and proprietary GIS and CAD formats, including Geomedia SQL, MapInfo, Microstation, AutoCAD, GML, OpenGIS SQL, KML and many others (over 30 vector and raster formats supported), giving you the flexibility to choose the SWMM data storage format that's right for you.

PCSWMM's high-performance, massively scaleable GIS engine also provides powerful GIS analysis and hydraulic modeling in a single stand-alone environment, with no other third-party licenses required. You can now create, edit, modify, run, map, analyze, design and optimize your GIS based sewer network models and instantly review, query and display simulation results either from within the specialized and optimized PCSWMM interface or from within ArcGIS (or the GIS of your choice) – its up to you.

PCSWMM automatically maintains a standard, fully accessible US EPA SWMM5 input file at all times. Support is provided for using other SWMM5 data editors (e.g. US EPA SWMM5 interface, or in-house tools), as edits to the input file are detected and the SWMM model GIS layers are automatically updated. PCSWMM provides direct support for opening, editing, running, plotting and analyzing existing SWMM5 models.

PCSWMM goes beyond the current crop of modeling tools to ensure users have a deep knowledge of the underlying model processes, to increase user competence and confidence. Please refer to our PCSWMM pages for more information.

About SWMM

The EPA Stormwater Management Model (SWMM) is a dynamic rainfall-runoff simulation model used for single event or long-term (continuous) simulation of runoff quantity and quality from primarily urban areas. The runoff component of SWMM operates on a collection of subcatchment areas that receive precipitation and generate runoff and pollutant loads. The routing portion of SWMM transports this runoff through a system of pipes, channels, storage/treatment devices, pumps, and regulators. SWMM tracks the quantity and quality of runoff generated within each subcatchment, and the flow rate, flow depth, and quality of water in each pipe and channel during a simulation period comprised of multiple time steps.

SWMM was first developed in 1971, and has since undergone several major upgrades since then. It continues to be widely used throughout the world for planning, analysis and design related to stormwater runoff, combined sewers, sanitary sewers, and other drainage systems in urban areas, with many applications in non-urban areas as well. The current edition, Version 5, is a complete re-write of the previous release. Please refer to our SWMM pages for more information.

Participants supply their own computers, and the software and exercises are sent to participants ahead of the workshop. Content may vary slightly from the topics listed below.

Introduction to PCSWMM/SWMM modeling

• Introduction to SWMM hydrology/hydraulics and modeling procedures: discretization, sensitivity, calibration, error analysis
• Overview of SWMM applications: examples of new development drainage design, remediation, mitigation work, water in basements (WIBs), rainfall dependant infiltration/inflow (RDII), and watershed scale planning
• Surface hydrology event modeling: processes, data requirements, results interpretation, hands-on exercises
• Hydraulic event modeling incl. natural channel, free-surface, surcharge, and backwater flow effects: theory, limitations, applications, hands-on exercises
• Continuous modeling and water quality build-up / washoff: processes, data requirements, model output, hands-on exercises
• Detailed drainage design hands-on exercises

Intermediate/advanced use of PCSWMM/SWMM

• Sanitary sewer modeling, incl. DWF estimation and pattern creation
• Rainfall derived inflow and infiltration (RDII) modeling
• GIS integration, importing/exporting, entity aggregation/disaggregation, discretization and visual analysis
• Sensitivity, calibration, and error analysis (SCEA)
• Precipitation and meteorological data management, radar-rainfall, storm dynamics analysis, probability and statistics, hands-on exercises
• Detention pond design and multiple best management practice (BMP) analysis

The course participants will be supported by one of, or a combination of, the following instructors:

William James, DSc, PhD, P.E., Professor Emeritus of Engineering at Guelph University and CEO of CHI, is an internationally recognized authority on stormwater runoff, with over 40 years experience in research, teaching, and consulting to consultants and government agencies. He has published 20 books, over 200 technical papers, and has presented professional courses throughout the world. Dr. James has supported SWMM from its earliest distribution, developing the first PC version in 1984. For more information, please see: http://www.soe.uoguelph.ca/webfiles/wjames/

Robert James, BSc(Eng) P.E., has worked for CHI for 16 years, both as a software programmer and as a consultant on a wide variety of urban drainage management projects, He has conducted workshops on SWMM in the USA, Canada and overseas and has overseen the development of PCSWMM from version 4.0 (in 1992) to the current release.

Gilles Rivard, M. Sc., P.E. is the President of Aquapraxis inc., a firm specializing in urban hydrology, stormwater modeling and water resources planning. Before founding Aquapraxis in 2000 he had 25 years of professional experience, working in large consulting firms like Dessau-Soprin and SNC-Lavalin in the Province of Québec. He has published numerous papers and a book (in French) in 1998 on stormwater management. He is currently Chairman of the International Committee on Source Control (IWA/IAHR) and, apart from being a member of the national Committee for sewer networks for the INFRAGuide Program (NRC), he has personally written three national guides on sewer networks in this Program. Over the years, he has accumulated significant practical experience with PC-SWMM on modeling projects at the national and international levels, and has conducted PC-SWMM Workshops since 2000.

Mauricio Herrera, PhD.  Currently works for CH2MHill as a Water Resources Engineer out of the Vancouver office. Mauricio has utilized SWMM on a wide variety of hydrologic and hydraulic applications for projects in North America and overseas. Mauricio has been teaching SWMM and PCSWMM for the last 5 years.

Alexander Maestre, Ph.D. is currently working for GeoSyntec Consultants as a Senior Staff Engineer in Atlanta, Georgia. His dissertation under Dr. Robert Pitt at the University of Alabama covered research on stormwater constituents using the NPDES phase I stormwater permits. As a graduate student he assisted in several water resources classes using PCSWMM and co-authored the "Getting Started" chapters included in CHI's User's guide to SWMM.  His Master's degree was in water resources at the U of Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) under Dr. Mario Diaz-Granados, and focused on hydrologic balances in lakes and wetland systems using GIS.

Michael Gregory, M.Sc., P.Eng., P.E., senior project manager at TSH, has over 16 years of experience as a water resources engineer specializing in the planning, analysis, and design of stormwater management systems throughout North America. He has been a user of SWMM and PCSWMM since 1991, and has assisted with the development, technical support and training for a variety of SWMM-related software and modeling techniques since 1997.

Chris Brooker BSc(Eng) MSc(Eng) PrEng has been a consulting engineer specialising in environmental water related subjects and hydraulic structures since 1982. In 2001 he opened a practice in South Africa offering specialist consulting services mainly to other consulting engineers. He is an external examiner and occasional visiting lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of the Witwatersrand, and in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pretoria. Chris has authored numerous journal papers and conference presentations.

To register

Complete the online registration form to choose date, calculate fees owing and complete the shopping cart checkout process.

Fees

The fee for the 5-day self-paced eLearning course, time-limited PCSWMM software and all materials (see below) is $694.90. Full-time students are entitled to a 1/3 discount, with proof of status.

CEU’s

Upon our receipt of the completed, required course evaluation, each participant will earn 1.5 Continuing Education Units for the 5-d, 16-h self-paced eLearning course.

Included materials

Participants will receive:

• PCSWMM software (time-limited single user license),
• Urban Drainage Modeling workbook (ca. 300 pp) - book of the course complete with PowerPoint slides and step-by-step exercises,
• Rules for Responsible Modeling (300 pp) - modeling guide book,
• User’s Guide to SWMM (950 pp) - latest edition; edited, indexed and reformatted in a hardcover 6 x 9" format, and
• workshop training materials (i.e. workshop evaluation, workshop certificate, etc.

PCSWMM comes with all reference material on-line. Attendees may purchase a full single-user license of the PCSWMM software for a 10% discount (see registration form). CHI may honor the course discount if the software is purchased within 1 month of participating in the course.

Computing

Attendees must provide their own computers. The minimum computer that we would like to see you use is: Pentium 4; 512MB RAM; 5GB free disk space; 24 bit color XGA (1078x768) monitor with small (default) font settings; CD-ROM drive; Microsoft Windows Vista, XP or 2000 operating system; Microsoft Office (any year although preferably the professional version with Microsoft Access); and a proper mouse (unless you are especially fast with a touch pad).

We will supply a link to download the workshop software seven business days before the workshop. All attendees must download, install, and activate the software ahead of the workshop. Please notify us before the course if you have problems with the installation and/or activation.

Cancellation policy

Cancellations prior to 14 calendar days before the course will be refunded in full. Cancellations received within 14 days but prior to 7 calendar days before the course will forfeit 50% of the registration fee. Cancellations received less than 7 days before the course will not be refunded, however registrants will be eligible for a 50% credit towards any future course.

CHI retains the right to cancel the course. If the course is cancelled registrants will receive a full refund of the registration fee. CHI will not be liable for any other expenses occurred by the registrant. Normally cancellation will not occur within 7 days of the date of the course.

Contact CHI by phone: 519-767-0197, fax: 519-489-0695 or email: info@computationalhydraulics.com