Introducing an exciting, first-of-its kind, cloud-powered, data-enabled, and realtime
interactive global groundwater modeling platform –
MAGNET 4 water – accessible anywhere and anytime, free of charge.
The platform enables – for the first time – users to navigate to anywhere in the world to almost instantly create a groundwater model and visualization that can be further customized, refined, or expanded based on the user’s local data, expertise, and experience.
It takes literally just minutes or even seconds to set up a 3D flow and contaminant transport model using existing, preprocessed bigdata and obtain an integrated animated solution and analyses.
The data-enabled platform allows users to focus on what they are supposed to do: modeling and approximation - iteratively improving conceptualizations, testing hypotheses, understanding data worth, evaluating scenarios, assessing decisions, and making sense of the solutions. MAGNET drastically reduces cost and significantly increases productivity, simultaneously benefitting researchers, consultants, managers and planners.
To maximize the impact of this development, we have also created (and will continuously improve) a comprehensive, action-oriented groundwater curriculum and reference repository of engaged-learning lessons, short problems, integrated capstone projects, and video lectures and demos. These problems can be edited, customized, and refined by the professors based on their specific course learning objectives / curricular expectations.
The initiative makes learning fun and relevant - bringing research and real-world problem solving into the classroom on a routine basis, at all levels – from undergraduate to graduate and from high school to vocational education – and for multiple disciplines – from geology to agriculture to environmental and water resources science and engineering.
Sample testimonies:
“There is simply no other software tool out there that can be easily integrated into groundwater curricula.” The new technology “will prove so effective that many educators will totally redesign their courses to take full advantage of this tool. I have been teaching courses in groundwater hydrology and contaminant transport for over twenty years and I have been waiting for a tool like this… Now my students will be able to tackle realistic problems, instead of the academic simplified cases treated in most all text books … and they can focus on higher-level and more significant issues related to conceptual site modeling and engineering design.” - Professor at a major U.S. University.
“I was very impressed with the depth and breadth of this developed software… The new teaching tool makes aquifers ‘come alive’ and allows students to simulate ‘seeing into the earth’. (The) contribution to the field of groundwater hydrology through the development of this software is potentially enormous.” - Professor at a major U.S. University.
“The software is very exciting. It fills the void. It is clearly an educational tool that can be easily learned. However, it is capable of handling complex problems such that students can gain understanding of the influences of heterogeneities on system behavior”. - Professor at a major U.S. University.
You are welcome to use the modeling system and all the curriculum/reference materials on the platform– free of charge. We are in the process developing solutions to posted problems and projects. You may also add any of your own problems/lessons/projects directly to the Curriculum Network through our embedded editing system.
A note about the future: We are beginning with groundwater and soon will include a watershed module and other water systems on our platform. The ever-evolving platform will bring simultaneous benefits to not only students and professors, but also researchers, consultants, managers and planners.
The platform enables – for the first time – users to navigate to anywhere in the world to almost instantly create a groundwater model and visualization that can be further customized, refined, or expanded based on the user’s local data, expertise, and experience.
It takes literally just minutes or even seconds to set up a 3D flow and contaminant transport model using existing, preprocessed bigdata and obtain an integrated animated solution and analyses.
The data-enabled platform allows users to focus on what they are supposed to do: modeling and approximation - iteratively improving conceptualizations, testing hypotheses, understanding data worth, evaluating scenarios, assessing decisions, and making sense of the solutions. MAGNET drastically reduces cost and significantly increases productivity, simultaneously benefitting researchers, consultants, managers and planners.
To maximize the impact of this development, we have also created (and will continuously improve) a comprehensive, action-oriented groundwater curriculum and reference repository of engaged-learning lessons, short problems, integrated capstone projects, and video lectures and demos. These problems can be edited, customized, and refined by the professors based on their specific course learning objectives / curricular expectations.
The initiative makes learning fun and relevant - bringing research and real-world problem solving into the classroom on a routine basis, at all levels – from undergraduate to graduate and from high school to vocational education – and for multiple disciplines – from geology to agriculture to environmental and water resources science and engineering.
Sample testimonies:
“There is simply no other software tool out there that can be easily integrated into groundwater curricula.” The new technology “will prove so effective that many educators will totally redesign their courses to take full advantage of this tool. I have been teaching courses in groundwater hydrology and contaminant transport for over twenty years and I have been waiting for a tool like this… Now my students will be able to tackle realistic problems, instead of the academic simplified cases treated in most all text books … and they can focus on higher-level and more significant issues related to conceptual site modeling and engineering design.” - Professor at a major U.S. University.
“I was very impressed with the depth and breadth of this developed software… The new teaching tool makes aquifers ‘come alive’ and allows students to simulate ‘seeing into the earth’. (The) contribution to the field of groundwater hydrology through the development of this software is potentially enormous.” - Professor at a major U.S. University.
“The software is very exciting. It fills the void. It is clearly an educational tool that can be easily learned. However, it is capable of handling complex problems such that students can gain understanding of the influences of heterogeneities on system behavior”. - Professor at a major U.S. University.
You are welcome to use the modeling system and all the curriculum/reference materials on the platform– free of charge. We are in the process developing solutions to posted problems and projects. You may also add any of your own problems/lessons/projects directly to the Curriculum Network through our embedded editing system.
A note about the future: We are beginning with groundwater and soon will include a watershed module and other water systems on our platform. The ever-evolving platform will bring simultaneous benefits to not only students and professors, but also researchers, consultants, managers and planners.