Introduction to HEC-RAS Modeling
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Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 5:00 pm
Applications for Open Channel Hydraulic Analysis
Flood risk assessment
Floodplain management
Roadways, bridge and culvert design
New channel or channel modification projects
Hydraulic Principles
Conservation of energy and momentum
Energy losses and Manning’s equation
Backwater effects
Need for computer models
History and Development of US Army Corps HEC-RAS Software
Working with the HEC-RAS User Interface
File management
Data entry and editing
Displays, mapping, animations and reporting
Steady Flow Water Surface Profiling
Types of flow: uniform flow, rapidly and gradually varied flow
Data required
Locating cross sections
Setting boundary conditions
Calculating water profiles in HEC-RAS
Special Elements
Bridge and culvert modeling
Lateral and diversion structures
One-Dimensional (1D) Unsteady Flow Simulation
Routing principles
Rating curves
Boundary conditions
Two-Dimensional (2D) Unsteady Flow Simulation
Application of 2D modeling: 1D vs 2D
Required data sets
Examples
Credits
Professional Engineers
7.0 Continuing Ed. Hours
Floodplain Managers
7.0 ASFPM CECs
Professional Geologists
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Landscape Architects
7.0 LA/CES HSW PDHs
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 7.0 continuing education hours (PDHs) to professional engineers in all states. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Michigan.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana (Provider No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
The Association of State Floodplain Managers has approved this course for 7.0 CECs.
This seminar offers a non-credit opportunity to Michigan geologists and landscape architects. The Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System has approved this program for 7.0 HSW PDHs. Only full attendance can be reported to the LA/CES.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Chris Zamaites
Burns & McDonnellCivil Engineer at Burns & McDonnell
Ms. Zamaites is a senior civil engineer with Burns & McDonnell in Chicago. She has 28 years of experience with planning and design covering municipal infrastructure and commercial, residential, and recreational development; along with planned community design. Ms. Zamaites’ experience includes utility design/relocation for water transmission and distribution systems, sewage collection, and stormwater management systems including that for arterial, collector and local street systems. She works on floodplain evaluation and management, utility relocation, hydrology and hydraulics, earthen dam inspections, stream modeling with scour countermeasures, erosion and sediment control, and meeting all regulatory criteria associated with local planning and zoning ordinances, stormwater ordinances, and other applicable regulatory criteria from local to the federal level. Ms. Zamaites’ hydrologic and hydraulic modeling experience includes HEC 1, HEC 2, WSP2, WSPRO, WIN TR-20, TR 55, SWMM, HEC-RAS, HydroCAD, SewerCAD, StormCAD, Culvert Master, and Flow Master.