SITUATION OF ENGINEERING GEOLOGY SITUATION DE L'ART DE LA GÉOLOGIE À L'INGÉNIEUR

Abstract

Engineering geology is a field of engineering sciences that link pure sciences and engineering as engineering furnishes technical basis for practical human livings. Engineering geology has its foundations on geology and on mechanics, or in unified expression on physico-mechanical approach to geology and geological materials.
In attempting to select materials for teaching and training in engineering geology, most essential point is to recognize the situation of engineering geology as an engineering science among the pure natural sciences, engineering and practical social livings. Considerations on its situation and an example of undergraduate curriculum are presented in this paper.