SEEPAGE AND SLOPES

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: CIV ENGR/G L E 330 , graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 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. 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