CE20500 - ENGINEERING GEOLOGY

SPRING 2013

Instructor: A. Simonetti
Office: 105A Cushing Hall
Tel: 631-6710
email
Course Schedule: Tuesdays, Thursdays 2:00-3:15 pm - 138 De Bartolo
OFFICE HOURS: Thursdays, 8:00 - 11:00 pm; individual appointments may be scheduled outside of formal office hours

TAs: Elizabeth Koeman, Karl Cronenberger, Tyler Spano-Franco

Recommended textbook: Geology for Engineers & Environmental Scientists, 3rd edition by A.E. Kehew, Prentice Hall, NJ.

Syllabus - pdf

Group Term Paper - Rubric - due April 30th, 2013

FINAL EXAM - TUESDAY, MAY 7th, 2013 between 10:30 am and 12:30 pm (DeBartolo 138)

 

CLASS LECTURE SCHEDULE
(subject to change)

DATE
TOPIC
LECTURE MATERIAL
Pop Quiz
Assignment
01/15/2013
Introduction
 
01/17/2013
Origins - DVT Jordan Hall of Science
01/22/2013
Interior Structure of the Earth
01/24/2013
Mineralogy -1
01/29/2013
Mineralogy -2
 
01/31/2013
Igneous Rocks -1
02/05/2013

Igneous Rocks -2

02/07/2013
Sedimentary Rocks -1
02/12/2013
REVIEW
 
02/14/2013
TERM - EXAM #1
   
02/19/2013
Sedimentary Rocks -2
 
02/21/2013
Metamorphic Rocks
 
02/26/2013
Structural Geology
02/28/2013
Rock Mechanics
 
03/05/2013
Rock Mechanics/Weathering
 
03/07/2013
Erosion & Soils
 
03/12/2013
SPRING BREAK
     
03/14/2013
SPRING BREAK
   
03/19/2013
Soils & Soil Hazards
 
03/21/2013
Plate Tectonics
 
03/26/2013
REVIEW
03/28/2013
TERM - EXAM #2
   
04/02/2013
Earthquakes & Seismicity
 
04/04/2013
Mass Wasting -1
 
04/05/2013
Extra Credit Lecture
   
04/09/2013
Mass Wasting -2 & Groundwater -1
04/11/2013
Groundwater -2
 
04/16/2013
Contamination
04/18/2013
Hydraulic Fracturing
04/23/2013
Global Changes
 
04/25/2013
Group Term Paper Presentations
     
04/30/2013
Group Term Paper Presentations