# 12-657 Water Resource Systems Engineering
**Source**: https://cee.engineering.cmu.edu/education/course-descriptions/12-657.html
**Parent**: https://cee.engineering.cmu.edu/education/graduate/courses.html
Water Resource Systems Engineering combines hydrology, engineering, economics, and operations research to create tools and analyses that support decisions about large-scale water resource systems. The emphasis in this course will be on optimization methods, which are a core element of water systems analysis. Both water quantity and water quality problems will be covered.
**Prerequisite(s):**12-355