Valid for: 2024/25
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering LTH
Decided by: PLED V
Date of Decision: 2024-04-17
Effective: 2024-05-08
Main field: Technology
Depth of study relative to the degree requirements: First cycle, in-depth level of the course cannot be classified
Mandatory for: V1
Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish
The aim is to present basics of general geology, hydrogeology and enginering geology. The course has a scientific geological base but is also focusing on general engineering aspects and especially on civil and foundation engineering aspects.
Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must
Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must
Lectures
Minerals, rocks and soils - genesis, occurence, composition, and properties from a civil engineering point of view. Stratification of quaternary glacial deposits and rock mass structures. Groundwater - genesis, occurence, flow and quality as a function of geological environment. Connection between landscape morphology, genesis, material composition, grain size and also soil and rock properties. Introduction to field investigations, geological materials in the community and geology in civil engineering
Exercises
Exercises on soils, minerals and rocks; executed as self study exercises with only a limited access of teachers in a semipermanent geological collection available during the entire course. Geological map exercise.
Excursion
Engineering geological excursion in Scania.
Grading scale: TH - (U, 3, 4, 5) - (Fail, Three, Four, Five)
Assessment: Written examination and compulsory engineering geological excursion.
The examiner, in consultation with Disability Support Services, may deviate from the regular form of examination in order to provide a permanently disabled student with a form of examination equivalent to that of a student without a disability.
Modules
Code: 0107. Name: Engineering Geology.
Credits: 4.0. Grading scale: TH - (U, 3, 4, 5).
The number of participants is limited to: No
Kursen överlappar följande kurser:
VTGA05
VTGF05
VGTA01
Course coordinator: Alfredo Mendoza,
Alfredo.Mendoza@tg.lth.se
Course homepage: https://www.tg.lth.se/grundutbildning/kurser