Warning

The content on this page and sub-pages are relevant to the PROSPECT #209 virtual training provided in FY22. During the virtual course HEC-FDA Version 1.4.3 software was used. All course content included for this course is related to HEC-FDA Version 1.4.3.

Course Overview

This course presents risk assessment methods and concepts, many of which are required by Corps guidance. The objective is to enable participants to readily adapt these methods and concepts to their own studies and projects after successfully completing the course. Policy issues, concepts in statistical analysis, and risk and uncertainty methods used in the evaluation of flood risk management projects are emphasized in the course. Course workshops provide participants with the opportunity to apply the course's concepts using the Hydrologic Engineering Center Flood Damage Reduction Analysis (HEC-FDA) software program.

Getting Help

Please navigate to the HEC-FDA category on HEC Discourse for user support on HEC-FDA and for help with the content on this page.

FY22 Course Administrative Documents

Course Software

This course will use the following software.

Microsoft Excel
HEC-FDA Version 1.4.3. Available on App Portal, portable version available for download here.
QGIS. Available on App Portal. We recommend Version 3.6.2 - the version used to develop the tutorial with which the software will be used.

Course Instructors and Instructor Biographies

HEC Instructors	Guest Instructors
Cameron Ackerman	Woodrow Fields, RMC
Brennan Beam	Brian Hubel, SPD
Christopher Dunn	Kurt Keilman, SPD
Beth Faber	Brian Maestri, MVD
Greg Karlovits	Jesse Morrill-Winter, SPD
Will Lehman	Nathan Pingel, HDR
Richard Nugent
Julia Slaughter

Course Content

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Reading Assignments

Course Modules

The below table organizes all YouTube videos and course content from the FY2022 course on Risk-Based Analysis for Flood Damage Reduction Studies.

Module Name	YouTube Videos	Course Content	Instructor
Lecture: Flood Risk Assessment	Playlist	Slides	Nugent
Lecture: Background Policy and Regulations for Risk Analysis	Playlist	Slides	Dunn
Lecture: Basic Probability and Statistics	Playlist	Slides	Karlovits
Lecture: Incorporating Uncertainty into the Expected Annual Damage Computation	Playlist	Slides	Faber
Lecture: Risk Assessment and Risk Management: Transforming the USACE	Video	Slides	Wegner
Lecture: Case Study, Southwest Coastal Louisiana Feasibility Study	Playlist	Slides	Maestri
Lecture: Uncertainty in Exceedance Probability Functions	Playlist	Slides	Faber
Lecture: Stage Discharge Relationship Uncertainty Derivation	Playlist	Slides	Ackerman
Lecture: Interior/Exterior and Transform Flow Relationships	Playlist	Slides	Nugent
Workshop: Basic Probability and Statistics	---	Guide Starting Data	Karlovits
Workshop: Monte Carlo Simulation Examples	---	Starting Data Guide Data Solution Guide Solution	Faber
Lecture: Flood Risk Management Planning Center of Expertise	---	Slides	Morrill-Winter
Case Study Lecture: Coastal Texas Evaluation	Playlist	Slides	Maestri
Lecture: Project Formulation and Evaluation using Risk Assessment	Playlist	Slides	Dunn
Lecture: Project Performance and Geotechnical Analysis	Playlist	Slides	Hubel
Lecture: The RMC and Life Safety	Playlist	Slides	Fields
Lecture: Stage-Damage Relationship Uncertainty	Playlist	Slides	Keilman
Workshop: Bear Creek Using the HEC-FDA Version 1.4.3 Software	Workshop Introduction	Guide Data Solution Guide Solution	Slaughter
Workshop: Bear Creek Hydrologic and Hydraulic Uncertainties with HEC-FDA Version 1.4.3	Workshop Introduction	Guide Starting Data Data Solution Guide Solution	Slaughter
Workshop: Bear Creek Stage-Damage Uncertainty with HEC-FDA Version 1.4.3	Workshop Introduction	Guide Starting Data Data Solution Guide Solution	Slaughter
Case Study Lecture: Lower Sacramento River	Playlist	Slides Additional Information	Pingel
Lecture: HEC-FDA Limitations and Practical Considerations	Full Lecture	Slides	Nugent
Lecture: Including 2D Hydraulic Modeling in HEC-FDA Studies	Full Lecture	Slides	Beam
Lecture: HEC-WAT and FRA Compute vs HEC-FDA	Playlist	Slides	Lehman
Workshop: Bear Creek Without-Project Conditions with HEC-FDA Version 1.4.3	Workshop Introduction	Guide Starting Data Data Solution Guide Solution	Slaughter
Workshop: Bear Creek Levee Assignment and Levee Analysis with HEC-FDA Version 1.4.3	Workshop Introduction	Guide Starting Data Data Solution Guide Solution	Slaughter
Workshop: Bear Creek Plan Formulation with HEC-FDA Version 1.4.3	Workshop Introduction	Guide Starting Data Data Solution Guide Solution	Slaughter
Workshop: Pre-Processing Gridded Data for Use with HEC-FDA Version 1.4.3	Workshop Introduction	Workshop	Beam