EOSC

EOSC 536 · Advanced Rock Engineering

Learning Goals

  1. Review the essential methods of Geological Engineering practice, including site characterization, field work, laboratory testing, various types of analysis, hazard and risk assessment and professional issues such as loss control and professional ethics.
  2. Describe examples of true life engineering geological problems and discuss solutions.
  3. Explain the limitations of “textbook approaches” to geological engineering problems.
  4. Use the professional literature and understand the need for lifelong learning.

EOSC 534 · Geological Engineering: Soils and Weak Rocks

Learning Goals

1) Review the essential methods of Geological Engineering practice, including site characterization, field work, laboratory testing, various types of analysis, hazard and risk assessment and professional issues such as loss control and professional ethics.

2) Describe examples of true life engineering geological problems and discuss solutions.

3) Explain the limitations of “textbook approaches” to geological engineering problems.

4) Use the professional literature and understand the need for lifelong learning.

EOSC 532 · Field Laboratory in Groundwater Hydrology

Instructors

Leslie Smith, Ulrich Mayer, Roger Beckie

Lecture Topics

  1. Overview of Field Site and Field Techniques
    • geology of field site
    • review of methods of determining porous medium properties
    • interpretation of tidal signals in aquifers
    • introduction to piezocone penetration technology

    Exercise 1: Geologic description of sediment core from field site
    Exercise 2: Correlation between core data and cone penetrometer data
     

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