Department of Water Science and Engineering

The Department of Water Science and Engineering was established in 1988. Programs of undergraduate studies offer a series of basic and applied courses in the area of Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics, Hydrology, Soil-Water-Plant Relationship, Agricultural Meteorology, Irrigation and Drainage Systems Design, Soil and Water Conservation, Geology, Ground Waters, Hydro-Informatics, Water Supply and Wastewater Systems, and River Hydraulics. In addition, this program also offers a broad general engineering education including elements of Geo-Mechanical, Water Conveyance Structures and Pumping Systems Engineering.

The Water Science and Engineering Master's degree program in which students have been admitted since 1996, provides an in-depth study of the skills and tools demanded by the rigors of the water profession. The two-year program helps students build their technical competencies in different areas such as Irrigation and Drainage, Agricultural Meteorology, Water Resources, and Water Structures Engineering. They will be ready to be employed by consulting engineering companies in government or regulatory agencies looking to augment their skills in the water profession.

Currently Master’s students are accepted in academic areas of specializations such as Irrigation and Drainage, Agricultural Meteorology, Water Resources, and Water Structures Engineering.

Ph.D. candidates started their studies in the Department of Water Science and Engineering at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 2007. They should conduct research at levels that contribute new knowledge to the field of water science and engineering; considering the fact that the purpose of doctoral research is in constant evolution.

The doctoral programs in the Department of Water Science and Engineering aim to prepare researchers for employment in universities as well as scientific private sectors and government institutions. Doctoral candidates are admitted to programs only if they can convincingly demonstrate that their research proposals will significantly contribute to the existing knowledge in the field they have applied for. The doctoral degree qualifies them to apply for a university professorship position or conduct research in an academic setting. At the Ph.D. level, doctoral research gives students the needed skills to excel in academia, develop hypotheses, test those theories by studying, observing or conducting experiments, and modify those assumptions based on the data collected. Upon completion of the research, doctoral candidates present their conclusions to experts in the field and orally defend their findings before a panel of scholars. Currently, Ph.D. candidates are accepted in Irrigation and Drainage, Agricultural Meteorology, and Water Structures engineering branches of the department. More


Head of the Department of Water Science and Engineering
Kazem_Esmaili
Kazem Esmaili
Associate Professor
Department of Water Science and Engineering
esmaili@um.ac.ir
+985138805813


Concentration areas offered by the Department of Water Science and Engineering
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Academic staff

Hossein Ansari
Professor
Hossein Banejad
Associate Professor
Kamran Davary
Professor
Kazem Esmaili
Associate Professor
Alireza Faridhosseini
Associate Professor
Saeed Reza Khodashenas
Professor
Fereshteh Modaresi
Assistant Professor
Abolfazl Mosaedi
Professor
Mohammad Mousavi  Baygi
Professor
Seyed Hossein Sanaei Nejad
Professor
Ali Naghi Ziaei
Associate Professor

Research

Recent journal articles

Akbari, A., Ziaei, A., Naghedifar, S., Rezvani Moghaddam, P., & Gholami Sharafkhane, M. (2024). Simulation of saffron growth using AquaCrop model with high-resolution measured data. Scientia Horticulturae, 324 (324), 112569-112569.
Attarzadeh, F., Ziaei, A., Davary, K., & Esmaeil Fallah Choula (2024). Real-time water demand pattern estimation using an optimized extended Kalman filter. Expert Systems with Applications, 238 (), 122082-122110.
Kolahi, M., Davary, K. (2024). Integrated approach to water resource management in Mashhad Plain, Iran: actor analysis, cognitive mapping, and roadmap development. Scientific Reports, 14 (1), -.
Mirshafee, S., Ansari, H., Davary, K., Ziaei, A., Faridhosseini, A. (2024). Estimation of water balance components by Noah-MP land surface model for the Neyshaboor watershed, Khorasan Razavi, Iran. Applied Water Science, 14 (22), 1-13.
Araghi, A. (2024). Assessment of 30 gridded precipitation datasets over different climates on a country scale. Earth Science Informatics, 17 (2), 1301-1313.
Modaresi, F. (2024). A novel approach to predictor selection among large-scale climate indices for seasonal rainfall forecasting in small catchments. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 69 (4), 488-505.
Attaran, S., Mosaedi, A., Sojasi Qeidari, H. (2024). Co-evolution of human and hydrological system: Presenting a socio-hydrological approach to flood adaptation in Kalat city, Iran. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 102 (), 104292-104308.
Ghafari, E., Jeffrey P. Walker, Liujun Zhu, Andreas Colliander, & Faridhosseini, A. (2024). Spatial downscaling of SMAP radiometer soil moisture using radar data: Application of machine learning to the SMAPEx and SMAPVEX campaigns. Science of Remote Sensing, 9 (), 100122-.
Panahi, G., Khodashenas, S., & Faridhosseini, A. (2024). Using geomorphologic indicators in preparation for flood zoning and flood risk maps in the Kashafroud basin, Iran. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 1 (1), 1-18.
Araghi, A., & Christopher J. Martinez (2024). Evaluation of CRU-JRA gridded meteorological dataset for modeling of wheat production systems in Iran. International Journal of Biometeorology, 68 (6), 1201-1211.
Kahkhamoghadam, P., Ziaei, A., Davary, K., & Sadeghi, S. (2024). Optimal land allocation and irrigation scheduling to maximize the economic utility. International Journal of Plant Production, 18 (2), 289-300.
Askari, Z., Khodashenas, S., & Esmaili, K. (2024). first_page settings Order Article Reprints Open AccessArticle Experimental Investigation on the Effect of Sequences of Unsteady Flows on Bedload Sediment Transport. Geosciences, 14 (193), 1-15.
Askari, Z., Khodashenas, S., & Esmaili, K. (2024). Experimental Investigation on the Effect of Sequences of Unsteady Flows on Bedload Sediment Transport. Geosciences, 14 (7), 193-208.
Rajabi Jaghargh, M., Azizan Abu Samah, Jonathan Peter Cox, Araghi, A., Patricia M. Saco (2024). Utilization of the Google Earth Engine for the evaluation of daily soil temperature derived from Global Land Data Assimilation System in two different depths over a semiarid region. Meteorological Applications, 31 (4), -.
Salajegheh Tazerji, M., Mousavi Baygi, M., Alizadeh, A. (2024). برآورد نیاز سرمایی چهار رقم پسته هت آغاز مرحله تورم وانه در استان کرمان. , (), -.
Pezeshk, A., Naghedifar, S., Selahvarzi, M., & Ziaei, A. (2024). ارائه یک الگوریتم ساده برای برآورد نیاز آبی گیاهان پوششی فضای سبز باریشه کم‌عمق بدون نیاز به لایسیمتر؛ مطالعه موردی: گیاه فرانکینیا. , 55 (5), 1-10.
Rezaee, A., Mosaedi, A., Beheshti, A., & Zarrin, A. (2024). Using wavelet transform to analyze the dynamics of climatic variables; to assess the status of available water resources in Iran (1961–2020). Earth Science Informatics, 17 (6), 5499-5519.
Ganji Daronkola, H., & Khodashenas, S. (2024). A sustainable approach for heavy metals removal from surface water by sand column amendment with bio-adsorbent of pistachio hull waste (PHW): Batch and fixed-bed column adsorption. Journal of Water Process Engineering, 67 (106061), 106061-106077.
Modaresi, F., & Kazemi Choolanak, A. (2024). SMRF: a new class-based probabilistic approach for season-ahead monthly rainfall forecasting. Acta Geophysica, (), -.
Chamanehfar, S., Mousavi Baygi, M., Modaresi, F. (2024). Near future variations in temperature extremes in northeastern Iran under CMIP6 projections. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 196 (10), -.
Esmaili, K. (2024). Impact of installing new scour prevention countermeasure (F-jacks) around bridge pier on flow pattern and scour control. Ocean Engineering, 313 (), 119326-119350.
Moghbel, F., Fazel, F., Mosaedi, A. (2024). Long-term investigation of the irrigation intervals and supplementary irrigation strategies effects on winter wheat in the U.S. Central High Plains based on a combination of crop modeling and field studies. Agricultural Water Management, 304 (), 109077-109106.
Banejad, H. (2024). Analysis of homogeneity and isotropy of the flow in the watercourses by applying the RAPS and IPTA methods. Advances in Civil and Architectural Engineering, 15 (24), 67-83.
Tajbakhshian, M., Mosaedi, A., Mahmudy Gharaie, M., & Moussavi Harami, S. (2024). Study the relationship between rainfall erosivity and sediment yield in Shirin Darreh dam catchment, NE Iran. Iranian Journal of Earth Science, 16 (4), 1-11.
Gholami Sharafkhane, M., Ziaei, A., Naghedifar, S., Akbari, A. (2024). AquaCrop Plug-in-PSO: A novel irrigation scheduling optimization framework for maize to maximize crop water productivity using in-season weather forecast and crop yield estimation. Agricultural Water Management, 306 (109153), 109153-109153.

Recent research projects

Esmaili, Kazem,heravi, Zahra,mortazavi, V (2024). Evaluation of turbulent energy spectrum analysis in meander floodplain waterways to determine the erodible areas

Contact Information

Iran, Mashhad, Azadi Square, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Faculty of Agriculture, Water Science and Engineering Department

Phone: +985138804611-5813

Fax: +985138807145