Geotechnical Engineering

Civil Engineering undergraduate students involved in the Geotechnical Engineering Concentration gain a solid civil engineering foundation through a wide array of courses, and then focus on elective courses to individualize the program and best suit their career goals.

The Geotechnical Engineering Concentration focuses on the ways natural materials are characterized and used for civil engineering construction. Historically, the geotechnical engineering program focused on structural foundations, slope stability, and earth dams. Today, the program’s scope of activities includes natural and man-made hazard mitigation, advanced techniques for site and material characterization, constitutive modeling of natural materials, design of pavement systems, and geo-environmental assessment and remediation.

Requirements

Area of Concentration	Program Course	Design Project	Electives
Geotechnical Engineering	CEE 1800 or CEE 1802	CEE 1833	One design course in two of the five different areas () Two additional courses from (*): CEE 1340 , 1714 , 1715 , 1717 , 1718 , 1821 , 2801 , 2802 , 2814 , or GEOL 1445

(*) One course from two of the following areas

Structural design elective (CEE 1335 )
Water resources design elective (CEE 1401 or 1410 )
Environmental design elective (CEE 1505 , 1513 or 1515 )
Geotechnical design elective (CEE 1821 , 1714 , 1715 , 1717 , 1718 or 2814 )
Transportation design elective: (CEE 1700 or CEE 1730 )

(**) If a course was used to fulfill any requirement (design elective, sustainability or engineering elective), it cannot be used as an Area of Concentration elective.

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