Les compétences de l'ingénieur hydraulicien de demain dans le domaine des aménagements fluviaux et maritimes

The skills of tomorrow's hydraulics engineer in the river and maritime engineering field

¹ EDF, Laboratoire National d'Hydraulique, Chatou
² SOGREAH, Grenoble
³ EDF, Division Technique Générale, Grenoble
⁴ Compagnie Nationale du Rhône, Lyon

Abstract

Up until quite recently, hydraulic schemes had in priority to meet the targets fixed, and this was the main task of the hydraulics engineer involved in the design, construction and operation of river engineering schemes, for example. Nowadays, the manner in which a development scheme is designed. constructed, or operated, has changed quite considerably. Although the hydraulics aspect is obviously still of great importance, if only because water resources can never be considered inexhaustible and the demand for water is always increasing, greater allowance must now be made for other factors such as Economics, Environment, Socio-Economics, etc. The hydraulics engineer in charge of a project cannot afford to ignore these aspects.