CIEN E3141: Soil Mechanics
Discover the fundamentals of soil behavior and its vital role in civil engineering on this hands-on course.
Course Overview
This is an introductory course to soil mechanics and civil engineering. You will explore the basic properties of soils, soil classifications, seepage, shear strength, and stress-strain behavior of soils as a multi-phase media. Through practical lab sessions, we will learn how to determine the soil properties through laboratory testing.
Course Instructor
Hoe Ling
Professor
Hoe Ling is a professor of Geotechnical Engineering, His major fields of research include geosynthetic-reinforced soil structures, soil constitutive modeling, geotechnical earthquake engineering, numerical and centrifuge modeling.
Ling obtained his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Kyoto University, Japan (1988), and his master's (1990) and doctoral degrees (1993) from the University of Tokyo. In addition to his research, Ling collaborates actively with international institutions and agencies and has made several reconnaissance trips related to the typhoon and earthquake disasters.