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The monitoring is a distinction the University grants to students who excel in their academic studies and in their human condition. This distinction will allow them to take part on teaching and research processes.

The course treat the dynamics of planet earth, understood as the dynamic of the planet and between its components. The course is divided in three parts: The lithosphere, the atmosphere, and the hydrosphere. The first part deals with the dynamics of the solid component of the,English,- planet from its origin as part of the solar system to the actual structure and composition of planet earth. The part corresponding to the atmosphere deals with the physical and chemical properties of it, clouds formation, precipitation, winds, sea currents, weather, climate change and atmospheric damage. The liquid component of earth deals with the processes on the earth surface and the surface layers of the sub ground related with the influence of water in landscape formation within the geomorphologic cycle.

The hydraulics course aims to introduce the student to the concepts of water movement mechanics in open flumes in order to be able to understand the behavior of this flow in the different applications of civil and environmental engineering, particularly in relation to drinking water supply and collection and disposal of wastewater in an urban environment. Other applications are hydraulics of rivers, irrigation districts and hydraulic structures associated with dams, treatment plants and pumping stations. The topics covered on the course are: application of the conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy, learned on the fluid mechanics course; the case of free surface flows; specific energy and specific momentum channels; uniform flow in partially full pipes and natural and artificial channels with gradually and rapidly varied flow; design of hydraulic structures; and unsteady flow in open channels.