Courses Offered at HKUST
CIVL4000L Soil Slope Engineering
An undergraduate course normally offerred in the Spring semester. This course aims to teach students to apply the fundamental principles of saturated and unsaturated soil mechanics to the analysis and design of slope stability. The course covers slope failure mechanisms, transient seepage analysis, measurement and selection of shear strength parameters, historical and recent methods of slope stability analysis, designs of slope stabilization measures and instrumentation.
CIVL4720 Geotechnical Analysis and Design
This is an undergraduate course normally offerred in the fall semester. In this course the students will be introduced to the use of basic knowledge of soil mechanics in the analysis and design of geotechnical applications. This course covers fundamental theories and approaches widely used in geotechnical and foundation engineering, such as lateral earth theories, design of earth retaining structures, slopes, shallow and deep foundations and reinforced earth structures, and geotechnical centrifuge modeling.
CIVL4750 Numerical Solutions to Geotechnical Problems
A final year undergraduate elective regularly offerred in the Fall semester. This course aims to teach students the fundamental knowledge and numerical skills solving practical geotechnical problems. It will offer hands-on experiences to students in using commercially available design and analysis software, and help students to establish key judgements on selection of model parameter and verification of the numerical results.
CIVL5730 Theoretical and Computational Soil Mechanics
A postgraduate level course regularly offerred in the Spring semester. This course aims to teach our postgradute students knowledge on various soil theories and advanced models and numberical approaches towards explaining the complex soil behavior.
