Incertezas hidrológicas: avaliando e ensinando

Abstract

The article presents an academic experience of learning doing in the subject of reservoir sizing and its inherent uncertainties. The experience had room in the Department of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering in Federal University of Ceará. The course was promoted by Secretariat of Water Resources (SRH) and sponsored by the Ministry of the Environment of Brazil and World Bank in the context of PROÁGUA. The course consisted in the application of Monte Carlo's method for the sizing Castanhão reservoir in the Jaguaribe river. Thirty inflows synthetic series were generated for each student and they were asked to size their own reservoir. In a second moment, the students were gathered in groups of six and it was attributed to them the task of deciding about the reservoir capacity, knowing the results of the six synthetic series of the group. The paper presents the didactical methodology and the results from a group of twelve students.