Caption: Engineering Open House Guide - 2009
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16 EOH 2009 Hands-On Hydrologic Model Squiggly River Boat Race Challenge IAHR/IWRA Meandering rivers transport both water and sediment. The understanding of their physical processes are important for human-nature interaction and preservation. Come learn and then play “Boat Race Challenge”, in which participants with be able to build and race their own aluminum foil boats. Location: 1504 This exhibit is suitable for: All Hydrosystems Laboratory IAHR/IWRA In this hands-on model one can The Amazing Underexplore how the power of water ground World of TARP shapes the topology of our earth. IAHR/IWRA (International AsCome design your own landsociation for Hydraulic Engineerscape and see how water works ing and Research / International its magic. Water Resources Association) Location: 1504 Have you ever seen a 30 foot This exhibit is suitable for: All wide tunnel that is 300 feet underground? Now’s your chance! Come discover the complex and The Hazards of Low-Head intriguing Tunnel and Reservoir Dams IAHR/IWRA Project (TARP) of the greater Low-head dams are common Chicago Area. throughout Illinois on many rivers Location: 1504 and streams. These dams are This exhibit is suitable for: All also dangerous, and sometimes Design of a Canoe Chute fatal, when fishermen or boatand Fish Passage for the ers get too close to downstream end of the spillway and become Chicago River trapped in a re-circulating current IAHR/IWRA that can often be found at the toe The goal of this project is to of low-head dams. This exhibit design a combined canoe chute demonstrates the dangers that and fish passage for the North can be associated with low-head Branch Dam of the Chicago dams. River. The design includes a Location: 1504 canoe chute that provides a safe This exhibit is suitable for: All means of passing over the dam while providing a way for the Magic Fountain local fish communities to move IAHR/IWRA upstream- helping to improve the Learn how the flow of water biological diversity of the area. through pipes and special presLocation: 1504 sure distributions make it posThis exhibit is suitable for: All sible for the construction of a water fountain that runs virtually on Ever Seen the Bottom of its own, without external forcing the Ocean? or pumps of any kind! Known as IAHR/IWRA the Heron’s fountain, it was first Come discover for yourself the invented in ancient Egypt in the interesting bed forms which are first century. present beneath the waves. Location: 1504 Location: 1504 This exhibit is suitable for: All This exhibit is suitable for: All Standing Water Waves IAHR/IWRA Have you ever seen what water waves look like when they fully reflect from a beach? Come visit our giant water wave tank and see first hand the peculiar wave patterns and the resulting sand bedforms! Location: 1504 This exhibit is suitable for: All The Tale of Heavy and Light - The River under the River IAHR/IWRA Heavy things sink and light things float. Mother Nature is a master on this basic rule of physics. Come and see how density flows generate a river under the Chicago River in Chicago, Illinois. Location: 1504 This exhibit is suitable for: All Thank you for being a part of Engineering Open House 2009!
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