CEE 347 – Geotechnical Engineering II, 3 credits (3-0)

 

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Spring 2009

MWF 12:00-12:50 PM

MCB 205W

 

Instructor:

Dr. Sangchul Bang

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

CM 237

Official Office Hours: MWF 11:00-12:00 noon

Tel) 394-2440

E-mail: sangchul.bang@sdsmt.edu

 

Course Description: Composition of soils, origin, and deposition, exploration, frost problems, swelling of soils, erosion protection, soil improvement, groundwater flow and dewatering, slope stability, and retaining structures.  This course is cross-listed with MINE 347.

 

Prerequisite: CEE/MINE 346. 

 

Instruction Methods:  Three hours of classroom lecture per week.

 

Course Requirements:

Textbooks: Das, B. M.; Principles of Geotechnical Engineering, Brooks Cole, Sixth Ed.; Das, B. M.

Class Attendance Policy: Students are expected to attend all classroom lectures.

Cheating and plagiarism Policy: Any type of cheating or plagiarism will result in a failing grade.

Make-up Policy: There will be no make-up exam. 

 

Course Goals:

This course is designed to provide a broad background in Geotechnical Engineering and to cover topics not included in CEE/MINE 346.  It will provide:

  1. Juniors in Civil Engineering, Geological Engineering, and Mining Engineering with a basic working knowledge of soil mechanics and foundation engineering;
  2. Knowledge of soil compaction, slope stability analysis and time-dependent consolidation settlement. 
  3. The building blocks required to design retaining structures, shallow foundations, and deep foundations;

 

Expectations:

Students should know how to use spreadsheets and Mathcad, be familiar with stresses, strains and elastic modulus, be familiar with differentiation, integration, and differential equations, and fundamentals of soil mechanics.

 

Evaluation Procedures:

  1. Number of tests: 3 one hour exams and 1 two hour final exam
  2. Grading system:
    1. one hour exams, each 20 % = 60 %
    2. Homework = 10 %
    3. Final exam = 30 %

 

Requirements for Homework:

Problems will be assigned on each Friday and are due on following Friday.  The following format is in effect for homework problems:

  1. Write on one side of the sheet only.
  2. Staple the assignment together at the upper left corner.
  3. Homework must be done in a neat and orderly format.  Sloppy work will not be graded.

 

Note:

Students with special needs or requiring special accommodations should contact the instructor and/or the campus ADA coordinator, Jolie McCoy, at 394-1924 at the earliest opportunity.

 

Freedom in learning: Students are responsible for learning the content of any course of study in which they are enrolled. Under Board of Regents and University policy, student academic performance shall be evaluated solely on an academic basis and students should be free to take reasoned exception to the data or views offered in any course of study. Students who believe that an academic evaluation is unrelated to academic standards but is related instead to judgment of their personal opinion or conduct should contact the dean of the college which offers the class to initiate a review of the evaluation.