EOSC

Course Overview

Engineering design is defined as a creative, iterative and open-ended process, subject to constraints imposed through legislative codes, project economics, health, safety, environmental and societal considerations. This course will examine different principles, approaches, and tools used in geotechnical design. The examples and case histories reviewed will focus primarily on rock engineering problems, although many of the analytical, empirical and numerical techniques reviewed are also used in other areas of geotechnical engineering.

Learning Goals

1) Analysis of groundwater geochemistry problems

• Critically evaluate groundwater geochemical problems
• Develop and articulate conceptual models, identify geochemical important processes
• Postulate reasonable explanations for observations
• Predict consequences of a change in geochemical conditions using quantitative methods
• Design geochemical interventions to drive a system to a desired state (e.g., contaminant remediation)

Background knowledge

Course Fees

There are 2 separate fees for this course:

1. Course Tuition Fee - payable via Student Service Centre
2. Special Fee ($40.00) - payable via EOAS Administrative Office

Instructors

Shane O'Neill

Aaron Cahill

Roger Beckie

Learning Goals

To provide a framework for examining processes involved in the concentration of metals in the Earth’s crust and for assessing mineral potential in a given region based on available geologic information and constraints.

There are three different modules in this course that keyed to the frameworks above:

Part 1:  The world from a grain of sand

• Sediment-routing systems
• Sediment sources
• Sediment fluxes
• Sedimentary structures

Part 2:  Processes in sedimentary environments