COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ADVANCED ENGINEERING GEOLOGY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GEE 5019 ADVANCED ENGINEERING GEOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ALI BAHADIR YAVUZ

Offered to

Applied Geology
Applied Geology

Course Objective

Engineering geology often serves as a fitler between traditional geologic input and the uses of this information by engineers. The tools of traditional geology are principally the
observation of rock exposures;the ınterpretation of hydrologic, geophysical and geochemical, and physicochemical properties of samples in the laboratory. These provide
information about the rock fornmations, their age their histroy, their geometric shapes and arrangements and their genesis; indeed, it is the last of these that motivates
most of the interest in acquiring data in academic geology.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Testing of rock soils
2   rock mass classification
3   environmental factors in engineering properties of rock and soils

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction
2 Essential Geology
3 Geological Investigations
4 Source Information about geology and engineering geology
5 Plutonic Igneous Rocks
6 Volcanism and Volcanic Rocks
7 Mid-term Exam
8 Sedimantary Rocks: Shales, Sandstone
9 Soluble rocks: limestones, Dolomite
10 Metamorphic rocks
11 Rock structures and fault activity
12 Rock mass strength
13 Soil Strength
14 Soil Strength

Recomended or Required Reading

Goodman, R.E. (1993) engineering Geology, John Wiley%Sons, Inc. New York, 411 p.

Waltham, A.C., (1194) foundation of Engineering Geology, Blackie Academic%Professional, London, 88 p.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

lectures

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + ASG * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

necdet.turk@deu.edu.tr, 232 3017313

Office Hours

tuesday 3 and 4 hours

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 6 72
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparation for midterm exam 2 14 28
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 177

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.1545
LO.2544
LO.3543