Major in Engineering Geology
The Major in Engineering Geology provides an advanced understanding, technical knowledge, and practical skills in engineering geology and geotechnics.
Specific learning goals are:
- Understand, characterise and predict the behaviour of rocks and soils in civil engineering constructions such as in surface excavations, tunnels, dams, roads and bridges
- Identify, characterise and cope with hazards from natural slope instabilities (e.g. landslides, rock falls, debris flows)
- Investigate host rock properties and contaminant transport processes for the geological disposal of chemical and radioactive wastes
- Identify, develop and protect groundwater and geothermal heat resources with targeted site investigation programmes
Industrial internship
Information regarding the mandatory industrial internship in the engineering geology major can be found on the moodle page. All questions regarding the internship should be addressed to the internship coordinator Dr. Heike Willenberg.
Contact
Dr. Heike Willenberg
Lecturer at the Department of Earth Sciences
Dep. Erdwissenschaften
Sonneggstrasse 5
8092
Zürich
Switzerland
Master's thesis topics 2024
Starting from Spring Semester 2024 all Master's thesis topics will be published on Moodle.