Irrigation Practices for Commercial and Residential Sites
At the conclusion of this course, you will be able to:
- Comprehend the basic principles of residential and commercial irrigation and drainage
- Identify the importance of soil-water relationships; climatic conditions; evapotranspiration and irrigation scheduling; economics and irrigation efficiency
- Discuss the importance of proper irrigation system design and installation
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of various low-impact development approaches to irrigation
Dr. Young currently works as a Military Master Planner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the Planning, Environmental, and Regulatory Branch. Dr. Young is involved in a variety of work including a wide range of military planning, programming, and design projects. Project Management experience ranges from installation design guides to campus master plans. Projects also focus on the impacts of development on human health and the environment, and improvements through better siting, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of military projects.
Dr. Young is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, School of Architecture. She teaches master’s level landscape architecture design studio course(s).