Engineering properties of soils including their descriptions and classifications, the effects of water, soil strength and compressibility. Introduction to soil stabilization, earth pressures, slope stability, and foundations.

• Explain how geology influences subsurface conditions and impacts engineering decisions.
• Classify soils and use phase diagrams to compute weight and volume quantities.
• Estimate soil permeability and quantity of seepage.
• Determine total stresses, pore water pressures, and effective stresses.
• Determine subsurface stress changes due to applied surface loading.
• Estimate the magnitude and time-rate of settlement due to consolidation.
• Apply the Mohr-Coulomb shear strength criterion to evaluate the potential for failure in a soil mass.
• Interpret laboratory test data and field exploration information, and transmit the findings in technical memoranda.
• Design a laboratory and field test program to obtain parameters to solve a geotechnical problem.

• Alba Yerro-Colom
• Joseph E. Dove
• Russell A. Green