The Designer/Manager School is a comprehensive educational program offering a variety of classes designed for both agricultural and landscape irrigation professionals, taught by the very people who developed them - Charles M. Burt, Ph.D., P.E., CID; Stuart Styles, Dr.Engr., P.E., CID; Ben Burgoa, Ph.D; and Franklin Gaudi. The classes are held at the Irrigation Training and Research Center (ITRC) at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo.
AGRICULTURE/LANDSCAPE COURSES
Date
Class Title
Description
Course Fee
8/11/08
Basic Pipeline Hydraulics I
Suggested prerequisite: None
Pipe materials & sizes
Energy equation, friction, elevation changes
Basic spreadsheet operations
$185
8/12/08
Basic Pipeline Hydraulics IISuggested prerequisite: Basic Pipeline Hydraulics I
Mainline computations, tapered pipe, branches
Hydraulic Gradelines
Problems using spreadsheets
Minor losses
$185
8/13/08
Pumps I Suggested prerequisite: None
Pump curves
Pumps in series and parallel
System curves
TDH computations for vertical and booster pumps
Efficiency, WHP, BHP, input HP
Pump selection from catalogs
$185
AGRICULTURE COURSES
Date
Course Title
Description
Class Fee
8/6/08
Basic Soil, Plant & Water Relationships - Ag
Suggested prerequisite: None
Texture and structure
Water holding capacity, retention
Intake rates
Evaporation
Transpiration
Soils classification
Measurement of soil moisture and tension
$185
8/7 - 8/8/08
Irrigation Scheduling, Salinity & Drainage
Suggested prerequisite: Basic Soil, Plant & Water Relationships - Ag
(13 hrs of Irrigated Agriculture Waiver education credits approved by the Central Coast Regional Water Board)
ETo and crop coefficients
Practical irrigation scheduling
How efficiency and uniformity influence scheduling
Drainage concepts and layouts
Salinity
Leaching requirements, reclamation
$295
8/14/08
Chemigation Suggested prerequisite: None
(4.5 hrs continuing education approved by Calif. Dept. of Pesticide Regulation; 7.5 hrs of Irrigated Agriculture Waiver education credits approved by the Central Coast Regional Water Board; 7 hrs California Certified Crop Advisor)
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