Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and respond appropriately to real-life engineering ethics cases relevant to co-op work
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Synthesize and apply appropriate technical education to real world technical work
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Communicate effectively in writing and speaking with a range of audiences in the workplace, including those without disciplinary expertise
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Develop professional and transferable habits like time management skills, collaborative problem-solving skills, and research skills for learning new information
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Use spreadsheet software to perform fundamental civil, environmental, and geological engineering calculations, analyze datasets using logical filters, and interpret numeric data meant to represent time and text values
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Use computer programming as a tool to streamline engineering data analysis tasks, create visualizations, obtain numerical approximations, and retrieve data from local and remote (web-based) data sources
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Use automatic levels, total stations, and aerial photography to conduct land surveying operations and collect the type of geospatial data required for creating drawings that support engineering design
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Explain how measuring devices (data acquisition systems and sensors) work, use measuring devices to record/monitor the physical properties of a system, and use sensor readings as the foundation to control devices in the physical world
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the physicochemical characteristics of soils and their importance to the engineering behavior of soils.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Define the factors which control the physical, mechanical and hydraulic behavior of soils.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Run the laboratory tests used for the determination of physicochemical properties of soils, the engineering classification of soils, hydraulic properties, and the stiffness and shear strength properties.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Perform analyses in each area described in the course and understand the limitations to these analyses.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. List basic problems in Soil Mechanics design and describe how these problems are tackled.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Experimentally assess the interaction of multiple parameters controlling the physical, mechanical and hydraulic behavior of soils; perform more advanced 2D or 3D analyses in one area described in the course and understand the limitations of these analyses; or summarize the state of the art in one research or engineering-applied area described in the course.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Articulate why sustainability is important and relevant within the practice of engineering
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Apply sustainability tools such as industrial ecology, life cycle assessment, economic assessment, material flow analysis, and criticality to inform engineering decisions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Analyze sustainability issues and/or practices using a systems-based approach
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of engineering and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Identify and critique recent peer reviewed sustainability literature
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Calculate the factor of safety of natural or engineered slopes
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Design simple earth retaining structures
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Perform additional design strategies to design complex slope or retaining structures
Audience: Graduate

4. Lead a team of undergraduate students for the final design project exercise
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply methods and requirements of a subsurface investigation program
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Collect sufficient information to design basic shallow or deep foundation systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Fulfill the design criteria for different structures and facilities
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Design shallow and deep foundation structures
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Perform additional design strategies to design the foundation of a soil retaining structure
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Predict stress concentrations around underground openings
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Identify weak points around underground openings in conjunction with the rock mass type information
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Design openings to minimize hazard
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Design reinforcement strategies
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Perform advanced design strategies
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Measure basic index properties for rock mass classification
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe stress and strain in continuums
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Describe the factors which control the mechanical behavior of rocks
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Apply basic concepts of rock mechanics and rock physics to analyze basic geomechanical engineering problems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Prepare rock samples for mechanical testing, conduct experiment, and analyze experimental data to obtain rock strength properties
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Describe analytically time-dependent rock behaviors
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Integrate and apply the knowledge gained in prior coursework into a simulated real-world design environment
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Use open-ended problem-solving skills
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Work effectively in a multidisciplinary team environment
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Use oral and written communication skills to articulate proposed and completed work
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Explain basic concepts in management, business, and public policy
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Explain the importance of professional licensure
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Identify common failure mechanisms of a component, process, or system and their causes and prevention
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recall the principles of conservation of mass, advective mass flux and Fick’s law for diffusive mass flux
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Apply the fundamental solution to the diffusion equation and use the principle of superposition to construct new solutions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Calculate the diffusivity given data of concentration distribution over time, and conversely, calculate the concentration distribution over time given the diffusivity
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Calculate new solutions to advection-diffusion equation by modifying known solutions to include first-order reactions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Explain the differences between molecular diffusion, turbulent diffusion and shear flow dispersion
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Apply models of mass transfer at boundaries to compute interfacial mass exchange between air-water and sediment-water interfaces
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Evaluate the importance of mixing and transport processes in environmental processes and assess the utility of different types of solutions.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify major issues pertaining to energy and environmental science and engineering, and evaluate the sustainability of technologies grounded in the science of material and energy balances and reaction kinetics
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Derive and solve mathematical expressions to describe energy and material transformations
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Critically evaluate and present their analysis and synthesis of literature in this area of energy and environment
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Evaluate and propose novel technological solutions grounded in the fundamentals of thermodynamics of kinetics
Audience: Graduate

5. Analyze and defend emerging technologies in the area of energy and environment
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Characterize and classify slope failure
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Identify stability risk factors in generalized slope design
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Apply soil and rock mechanics and strength principles in the context of slope stability investigation and design
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Determine strength parameters of soil materials under saturated and unsaturated conditions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Understand pore fluid pressure in underground environments and its effect on manmade structures integrated within the soil as well as the failure potential of differing geometries
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Design slope remedial plans for earth structures subjected to varying physical properties, overburden and pore pressures, and restrictive geometries
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Act as leaders of the small groups they have been assigned for the mini design project
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Provide examples of when and where to consider shallow foundation systems in lieu of deep foundation systems and where stone columns or rammed aggregate piers are appropriate
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Scope and Prepare a Foundation Investigation, including the equipment and standards used for subsurface exploration and the advantages/disadvantages therein
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Calculate Allowable Bearing Pressure using (a) presumptive values, (b) the bearing capacity equation and (c) in situ approaches
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Design a safe spread foundation system where structural capacity exceeds demand
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Design a drilled shaft and a driven pile for axial loading considering vertical loading and a settlement estimate
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Prepare a bid sheet, plan set, and set of specifications for a successful foundation design
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Use soil moduli in the application of a laterally loaded deep-foundation system using an appropriate software program with a hand-calculated backcheck
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe multiple nondestructive evaluation (NDE) testing methods and their applications
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Characterize flaws within Civil and Geological Engineering materials
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Determine source locations of flaws or damage within a structure based on NDE data
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Characterize both active and passive elastic wave observations in rock
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Apply seismological principles to observed acoustic emissions for determining source locations of microcracks and infer the mechanism of failure
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Analyze fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to find earthquake events within timeseries data
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Apply artificial intelligence techniques to analyze fiber optic sensing data
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Provide the necessary steps to evaluate the wind resource at a prospective site by characterizing and correlating (vertically and horizontally) the wind speed distribution functions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Translate (forward and backward) wind power: kinetic to mechanical to electrical and select appropriate wind turbine given site wind resource and turbine power curve
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Demonstrate knowledge of the mechanics and principles of the tower load document, shallow and deep foundation designs, transportation logistics, geotechnical investigation and reporting, thermal resistivity and collection system design, and interconnection
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Develop civil balance-of-plant engineering calculation design bases for access roads, stormwater control, turbine foundations, and crane pads and electrical balance-of-plant engineering calculation design bases for the collection system, grounding, substation design, and interconnection
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Analyze sustainability issues and/or practices using a systems-based approach.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of wind energy and identify potential tradeoffs and interrelationships among these dimensions at an intermediate level.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Prepare an economic Pro Forma for a successful distributed wind project and calculate Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) and environmental Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) of green-house gasses, water use, and CO2 per kW h.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Conduct a borehole geomechanical analysis
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Design casing plans for drilling
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Use borehole data and earthquake focal mechanisms to gain information about in-situ stress and strain
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Describe modern challenges in developing subsurface energy resources
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Use modern software to find crustal deformation models that match observed ground deformation
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify, describe, and quantify ecohydrologic processes
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Build and use models for simulating hydrologic processes, ecologic structure and vegetation composition
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Work effectively and collaborate in groups to communicate ecohydrologic concepts
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Critically evaluate the ecohydrologic literature
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the physicochemical characteristics of soils and their importance to the engineering behavior of soils
Audience: Graduate

2. Define the factors which control the hydraulic and mechanical behavior of soils
Audience: Graduate

3. Evaluate how engineering classification of soils capture fundamental responses
Audience: Graduate

4. Run and interpret laboratory tests used to characterize how physical and chemical properties of particles affect the behavior of soil masses, including hydraulic properties and the stiffness and shear strength properties
Audience: Graduate

5. Explain models that describe the behavior and properties of soils
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Define properties of unsaturated soils
Audience: Graduate

2. Use principles of interfacial physics, hydrology, and soil mechanics to interpret unsaturated soil behavior
Audience: Graduate

3. Use results from measurement methods to characterize unsaturated soil properties
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Characterize properties of soils that consist partly or wholly of clay
Audience: Graduate

2. Define the composition and fabric of natural soils, their surface and pore-fluid chemistry, and the physical and chemical factors that govern fine-grained soil behavior
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of the Scientific Theory of Plate Tectonics by writing, solving, illustrating, and exemplifying Euler’s formula for rigid tectonic plates moving on a sphere.
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate an understanding of the earthquake deformation cycle in time and space by sketching a map over ~100 km and a time series over ~1000 years.
Audience: Graduate

3. Demonstrate an understanding of the physical principles of crustal deformation by writing, applying, and solving the differential equations governing motion under the constitutive relations for rigid, elastic, and Maxwell visco-elastic rheologies.
Audience: Graduate

4. Demonstrate an understanding of quantitative reasoning for testing geophysical hypotheses by comparing two competing models with appropriate statistical tests.
Audience: Graduate

5. Visualize plate motions on a 3-dimensional sphere by writing, debugging, and writing computer applications.
Audience: Graduate

6. Analyze geophysical data and interpret them by implementing simple models in the Matlab computer language.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze technical construction of rock mechanics apparatuses
Audience: Graduate

2. Design and fabricate load cells and displacement sensors
Audience: Graduate

3. Measure dynamic rock frictional properties for fault instability analysis
Audience: Graduate