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Instructor Information
Dr. Roger W. Meier Office Hours
10:20 am - 11:30 am MWF Course ObjectivesTo provide students with both practical and theoretical knowledge of how soil responds to changes in stress at the advanced level required for the design and construction of foundations and earth structures. TextbookThe required textbook for this course is An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering (2nd Ed.) by Holtz, Kovacs, and Sheahan (Prentice-Hall, 2010).
The textbook will be supplemented by journal articles and engineering reports as needed throughout the course. These will either be handed out in class or made available through the Documents section of this website. GradingThere will be one take-home mid-term exam that counts as 30% of the final grade. Homework assigned throughout the semester will cumulatively count as 30% of the final grade. The comprehensive final exam will count as 40% of the final grade. It will be a take-home exam due at the start of the designated final exam period. I will not be using plus/minus grading in this class. Everyone with a final grade of 90 or above will have earned an A; 80 or above, a B; 70 or above, a C; and 60 or above, a D. Remember, you are required to get at least a C in this course for it to count toward graduation. I do not believe in curving grades and neither should
you. Grading on the curve means that for every student assigned an A there
must be one student assigned an F. Would you want to be that student? If you
have demonstrated mastery of the course material through your homework and
examinations, you will have earned an A regardless of your classmates’
performance. That means everyone in the class could earn an A (and I’d be
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