For the Masters course Civil Engineering the Chair of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Rock Mechanics and Tunneling offers the following modular courses in the specialization Advaced Geotechnics:
Compulsory Courses:
Elective Courses:
- Building with geosynthetics for civil engineers
- Soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering
- Laboratory exercise for soil mechanics
- Earthworks and dam construction
- Advanced Constitutive Models and Finite Element Modeling in Geotechnics
- Engineering Geology and Geotechnics in Tunneling
- Unsaturated soil mechanics
- Numerical applications in geotechnics
- Study Project
- Geotechnical issues in Environmental Engineering
In addition, the following electives from other chairs of the TUM Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are assigned to the field of study Advanced Geotechnics:
- Soil Vibrations - Emission, Propagation, Immission, Abatement
- Risk Analysis
- Rock mechanical laboratory exercise for Civil Engineers
You can find the placement of the courses in your curriculum in the corresponding study regulations.
A description of each module can be found on TUMonline.
Notes and suggestions for research topics for a master thesis can be found under study projects and theses.