GIS Applications for Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Systems

This book has been written using the recommendations of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) of the U.S. and the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) program. Both of these organizations recommend performance- (or outcome-) based learning in which the learning objectives of each lecture (or chapter) are clearly stated up front, and the learning is measured in terms of achieving these learning objectives. Each chapter of this book accordingly starts with learning objectives for that chapter and ends with a chapter summary and questions. Most technical books are written using the natural human teaching style called deductive, in which principles are presented before the applications.

In this book, an attempt has been made to organize the material in the natural human learning style called inductive, in which examples are presented before the principles. For example, in most chapters, case studies are presented before the procedures are explained. The book has numerous maps and illustrations that should cater well to the learning styles of “visual learners”