Tools for teaching hydrological and environmental modeling

Being able to work with mathematical models of hydrological and environmental systems becomes increasingly important for students of civil and environmental engineering departments. Courses or course sections teaching the specific skills needed are slowly making their way into the curriculum. This paper discusses the requirements for tools to teach these topics. Two example tools for model identification and for model evaluation are presented in detail. The paper closes with a section on our experience of using these tools in undergraduate and graduate civil and environmental engineering education in the UK and in the USA