Geotechnical Engineering Chair, is one of the chairs of Faculty of Civil Engineering & Water Resources Engineering, have a great role in the teaching-learning and consultancy services of the Faculty. Both graduate and undergraduate programs are being managed by this Chair.
Course Delivery
Geotechnical Engineering, is one of the basic disciplines of Civil Engineering, and the following course areas are being offered under the chair.
Undergraduate
The chair facilitates and administers the courses such as engineering geology; soil mechanics (I and II), foundation engineering etc.
Graduate
The chair offers graduate programs in Geotechnical Engineering (regular) to solve the critical shortage of skilled professional in area.
The graduate program in Geotechnical Engineering deals, primarily with the necessary advanced theoretical backgrounds to analyzeand directing and performing site investigations and soil laboratory testing as well as evaluating and interpreting investigation results for building and bridge site, dam sites, roads, highways, etc. The modules covered in this program include: computational methods; mechanics and properties of earth materials; design and construction of geotechnical Structures; soil dynamics and earthquake engineering.
Research and community services
Different consultancy and community services are also being conducted under the chair. These includes, materials testing, foundation recommendation etc... The possible research areas under the chair include but not limited to: soilmodeling, numerical analyses and testing; The static and seismic stability of natural and excavated slopes; characterization of engineering and physical properties of soils; landslide modeling and risk analysis; behavior of unsaturated soils and ground movements of compacted fills; static and dynamic soil-structure interaction; physical and engineering properties, construction problems of soils; ground improvement methods and their effect on structures
Laboratory
The chair administer one laboratories (Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory) for teaching learning process and for the society as testing unit for quality assurance and design proposal.
