Geotechnical Engineering Major
Overview
Taking the Geotechnical Engineering Major will give you much greater depth of knowledge in this field along with breadth of skills across all disciplines in Civil Engineering.
As a student in the Geotechnical Engineering Major you will undertake advanced units of study in the design of foundations, computer modeling, and environmental geotechnics. Graduate geotechnical engineers may be involved in examining the soil and rock layers that make up the earth in order to determine their physical and chemical properties so that they can design foundations and earthworks structures for buildings, roads, and many other types of projects.
This major best aligns with the Civil stream.
Unit of study table
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Geotechnical Engineering Major |
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Unit of study table |
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| Complete 24 credit points from the following: | |||
| Complete a minimum of 18 credit points of these units of study: | |||
| CIVL3411 Geotechnical Engineering |
6 | A CIVL2410 |
Semester 2 |
| CIVL5351 Geoenvironmental Engineering |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| CIVL5453 Geotechnical Hazards |
6 | A (CIVL2410 AND CIVL3411) OR (CIVL9410 AND CIVL9411). Students are assumed to have a good knowledge of fundamental soil mechanics, which is covered in the courses of soil mechanics (settlement, water flow, soil strength) and foundation engineering (soil models, stability analyses; slope stability; retaining walls; foundation capacity). |
Semester 2 |
| CIVL5458 Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| A maximum of 6 credit points from any other CIVL 3000-level, 4000-level or 5000-level unit from the Civil Engineering Stream Core or Specialist table may be taken. | |||