The Department of Irrigation Engineering is the first department in Faculty of Engineering, previously called School of Irrigation then Faculty of Irrigation Engineering. Since it was founded in 1938, more than 1,100 irrigation engineers had been produced. The department consists of five laboratories: field experimentation, irrigation engineering laboratory, surveying laboratory, material testing laboratory, and soil mechanics laboratory. The department offers Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral degree programmes in irrigation engineering. Upon request, the department can also provide training courses on irrigation design and water management. The major research programmes of the department are: the development of micro and sprinkler irrigation system, project water allocation scheduling and monitoring, planning, design and development of modern irrigated agriculture systems, application of GIS in planning and management of irrigated agriculture system, and simulation and optimization of irrigation and water resources systems. |
