Through a series of lectures and hands-on workshops, the students will learn about development of extreme storm events and hydrologic and hydraulic analysis methods using HEC-HMS and HEC-RAS software to simulate inflow design floods to assess spillway adequacy, and to evaluate dam-break consequences. Other topics will include: severe storm magnitude and sequence analysis; hydrologic simulation of inflow to dam and downstream tributaries; spillway sizing and operation; hydraulic calculations of flow through dam outlets; estimating dam breach parameters; dam breaching analysis; hydraulic routing of dam break flood waves; how to solve model stability problems when performing a dam break analysis; inundation mapping; and consequence modeling.