Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Implement an engineering approach dealing with a set problem taking into account technical, economic and environmental constraints
• Identify and describe the problem to be solved and the functional need (of prospective clients) to be met considering the state of technology
• Design, evaluate and optimise solutions addressing the problem
• Identify and acquire the information and skills needed to solve the problem
• Understand the theoretical and methodological fundamentals in science and engineering to solve problems involving these disciplines
• Understand laboratory techniques: testing, measuring, monitoring protocol, and security
• Select and rigorously apply knowledge, tools and methods in sciences and engineering to solve problems involving these disciplines
• Understand the fundamentals of project management to carry out a set project, individually or as part of a team
• Ensure a project is tracked and documented according to its specifications
• Collaborate, work in a team
• Interact effectively with other students to carry out collaborative projects.
• Communicate in a structured way - both orally and in writing, in French and English - giving clear, accurate, reasoned information
• Present analysis or experiment results in laboratory reports

Learning Outcomes of UE

At the end of the course, the student will be able to establish a diagnosis and propose a solution in connection with any project of foundation (superficial) and excavation (by gravity walls or embankment). Both the rupture (pulverulent mode, cohesive mode) and deformation (shrinkage - swelling, short-term compaction and long-term consolidation) aspects of the soil will be taken into consideration, as well as the dimensioning of the structure. To carry out these missions, the student will be able, for any unknown terrain, to choose, prescribe and then interpret the usual soil test(s) which will provide him with the data necessary for the calculation of the indicators on which he will base his diagnosis and then develop his technical solution.

The real case studies on which the student works are in direct contact with demographic issues and question the problems of sobriety (land, material and energy resources) by imposing the search for adapted, coherent and proportionate solutions based in particular on Low Tech approaches.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

Geotechnics & Densification, Geotechnics & Mobility, Geotechnics & Sobriety, Geotechnics & Resilience
Soil Physics and Stress Distribution in Soils
Failure of pulverulent soils and cohesive soils, resistance tests on site and in the laboratory
Short-term and long-term soil deformation, shrinkage & swelling, on-site and laboratory strength tests
Shallow foundations, embankments and gravity walls: technology, operation and calculation

Prior Experience

Not applicable