The MWH Soft water resources product line provides for comprehensive design, analysis, and management of drinking water distribution, municipal sanitary sewer, storm sewer and combined sewer collection systems. Prominent schools worldwide use MWH Soft software in their engineering courses, as well as the authoritative water and sewer systems analysis textbooks for MWH Soft Press.

The Department of Civil Engineering at CSU, which is nationally and internationally regarded as offering one of the premier water resources engineering program in the United States, created a capstone two-semester Senior Design course to allow students to draw on their four years of technical skill-building to develop and design an engineering project, giving them the skills they need to land jobs and internships in the professional world.

"Starting with the project's development in the first semester through its completion in the second semester, we try to run this class like a consulting engineering operation so that students are prepared to jump right into their new work environment," said Professor Larry Roesner, P.E., the class instructor and a leading international authority in water resources engineering. "Whether utilities or engineering consultants, the companies that work with our students are using MWH Soft technology, so it's hardly a coincidence that we have standardized on H₂ONET. We have to provide our students with the best tools the industry uses and demands. Incorporating real design problems using H₂ONET will not only benefit our students, but their future employers."

Terry Farrill, P.E., Hydraulic Engineering Specialist for the Fort Collins-Loveland Water District and a national figure in water distribution modeling, said, "CSU is giving its engineering students a real advantage by exposing them to MWH Soft state-of-the-art infrastructure modeling technology. By mastering the vital technology early on, they can concentrate on honing their engineering skills, making them well-prepared to enter the job market."

Similarly, the world-renowned Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Clarkson University, a leading center of higher learning at the forefront of water resources engineering, has developed an entire undergraduate engineering course around the H₂OMAP software. The course is designed to provide a real-world "capstone design" experience for senior-year students enrolled in the University's BSCE program, providing them with the necessary skills to land jobs and internships in the professional world.

"The course provided a seemingly unique opportunity for a group of highly-motivated engineering students to gain a detailed working knowledge of state-of-the-art software for hydraulic modeling and GIS, to apply their knowledge to a very real issue faced by a local community water system, and to present their solutions to local community leaders," said Dr. Thomas C. Young, the School's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. "I can say with great enthusiasm that it succeeded well beyond our expectations."

As a complete modeling tool, MWH Soft software is the ultimate teaching and research solution for engineering students. Its comprehensive and industry-leading functionality and ease of use allow them to quickly construct and analyze representative models of actual water distribution and sewer collection systems, then use those models to improve system reliability and performance. The software's state-of-the-art computational capabilities let students develop and evaluate a range of sound, cost-effective design, rehabilitation and operational strategies in a very short time. In addition, the innovation behind MWH Soft software applications and their momentum in the marketplace make them an essential addition to any University's engineering curriculum.