Curriculum, procedures & regulations

For more information on course groups, coordinators and codes check the printer version of the curriculum.
COURSES
ECTS
First & second years
Fall semester
Mandatory common courses
250800 Continuum mechanics 5
250801 Modelling in geoengineering 5
250802 Geology for engineering 5
250803 Modelling of flow and transport in porous media 5
250804 Soils mechanics 5
250805 Rock mechanics 5
Elective common courses
250808 Geographic information systems 5
Spring semester
Mandatory common courses
250407 Groundwaves generation & propagation 5
Elective common courses
250807 Numerical modelling tool in geoengineering 5
250809 Seminars 5
Fall & spring semesters
250838 Master's thesis 30

Specialty courses

COURSES
ECTS
Specialty in geotechnical engineering
Fall semester
Specialty mandatory courses
250811 Foundations & earth retaining structures 5
250420 Geotechnical design & construction 5
Specialty elective courses
250813 Quaternary geology 5
250818 Constitutive equations of materials 5
250820 Numerical models in geotechnical engineering 5
Spring semester
Specialty mandatory courses
250810 Advanced soil mechanics 5
250423 Tunnels and Rock Mechanics 5
250421 Geomechanics of breakage 5
Specialty elective courses
250521 Slope stability 5
250815 Modern monitoring techniques for ground movements 5
250816 Unsaturated soil mechanics 5
250819 Soil behaviour & advanced modelling 5
Specialty in groundwater hydrology
Fall semester
Specialty mandatory courses
250531 Modelling of soil & groundwater contamination 5
Specialty elective courses
250826 Reactive transport 5
250828 Hydrometeorological processes & their interactions with the ground 5
Spring semester
Specialty mandatory courses
250823 Aquifers balance & recharge 5
Specialty elective courses
250422 Interaction between groundwater & civil works 5
250825 Environmental isotope techniques in groundwater hydrology 5
250829 Groundwater & environment 5
Untaught courses
250821 Aquifer mechanics 5
250822 Stochastic methods in hydrology 5
250824 Hydrogeochemical modelling 5
250827 Stochastic modelling of transport in heterogeneous media 5
Specialty in earthquake engineering
Fall semester
Specialty mandatory courses
250830 Sismology 5
250831 Geophysical prospection 5
250833 Seismic hazard assessment 5
Specialty elective courses
250703 Composite materials structures 5
250839 Statistics applied to civil & earthquake engineering 5
Spring semester
Specialty mandatory courses
250520 Earthquake engineering 5
250476 Seismic risk assessment & reduction 5
Specialty elective courses
250835 Static & dynamic structural analysis 5
250471 Bridges 5
Untaught courses
250834 Advanced methods in seismic damage evaluation 5
250837 Advanced seismic resistant design 5

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