Undergraduate Studies

The Geotechnical Department offers fourteen courses, thirteen at the School of Civil Engineering and one at the School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering. Five of the thirteen courses are required Civil Engineering courses: Geology for Engineers (1^st sem.), Soil Mechanics I (5^th sem.) and II (6^th sem.), Engineering Geology (6^th sem.) and Foundations (7^th sem.). The remaining eight courses are as follows: Experimental Soil Mechanics (7^th and 9^th sem.), Selected Topics in Foundation Engineering (8^th sem.), Soil-Structure Interaction (8^th sem.), Rock Mechanics (9^th sem.), Soil Dynamics (9^th sem.), Selected Geotechnical Projects (9^th sem.), Environmental Geotechnics (9^th sem.) and Computational Geotechnics (9^th sem.). Students who elect the Geotechnical Engineer Specialization need to enrol in at least four of these eight courses, which are also open to the students who elect the other three Specializations (Hydraulics, Structural and Transportation Engineer).

The Geotechnical Engineer Specialization was approved by NTUA’s Senate in June 2004 and started for the 7^th and 8^th semesters in the 2004-2005 academic year.