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structures, strength and deformability of local soils,
performance of geotechnical structures as pavements, shallow
and deep foundations, natural and cut slopes, supported
excavations, tunnels, etc. A book is usually edited based on the
proceedings of the seminar, under the title "Soils of the City of
Sao Paulo". Published books resulted in noted editorial
successes within the local community. To increase national
coverage and interest on such publication, a second city was
invited to participate in the coming local seminar and the
natural choice was Rio de Janeiro with its residual soils
occurring highland and soft organic clays in the coastal sea
plane. The choice of Rio was twofold. Firstly it complements
the review of soils including older (Pre-Cambrian) and younger
(Quaternary) soils that also may occur in Sao Paulo. Secondly,
the Rio de Janeiro branch of ABMS has always been a
positively competing group to Sao Paulo’s and this is thought to
add flavour to a national event. The idea now is to spread out
internationally this type of meeting in the proposed format.
Tentative date: 2012.
Venues:
local single day seminars, taking place in participating
countries, followed by a two or three day international seminar,
taking place at a convenient and selected low cost location. Sao
Paulo, Brazil has offered to host the international meeting.
Local Seminars:
two or more local editors are requested to
invite local contributors to each selected topic. Editors are
expected to prepare an abridged draft of contents of the
contributions for the two selected cities. Moreover, editors
should review all contributions received to ensure technical
appropriateness and uniformity and to certify form
homogeneity. Contributions should be prepared both in the
local language and in English, preferably side by side in a two
columns page A4 format. A proficient English review is
recommended. A low cost hard cover proceeding, with no more
than 500 pages, plus a CD copy, is to be published in each
country, sponsored by the local National Society and under the
auspices of the TC Megacities 305-ISSMGE, with copyrights
provisions for duplication in an international volume edition.
Proceedings shall be published and distributed in the single day
local seminar, in which authors involved will present orally
their work, preferably in their home language. Costs of local
seminar organization shall be covered by the respective
National Society.
International Seminar:
after completion of all national
seminars, an international seminar will be organized for cross
reviewing contributions from all participating countries.
Selected editors will be in charge of preparing a sum up volume
in English only, largely based on each country contribution.
This shall be published as a CD volume with a printed abridged
text of the contents. Costs of this production shall be covered
by the hosting country National Society. Eventually, all authors
of contributions from participating countries will be invited for
shorter presentations of their work, in English, during the
international seminar. Costs of organizing the international
seminar shall also be covered by the hosting country National
Society. The credits of the international seminar organization
and proceedings edition volume will be shared by the hosting
National Society and by TC Megacities 305-ISSMGE.
TC306 - GEO EDUCATION
GEO-ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Chair: A. Jaksa
TERMS OF REFERENCE
The overall aim of TC306 is to disseminate world’s best
practice in geotechnical engineering education and to achieve
this by engaging with educators, industry and students.
Objective 1:
Disseminate knowledge and practice associated with Geo-
engineering Education to the membership of the ISSMGE.
Organize International Geotechnical Education Conference
(to be held in Galway, Ireland, July 4-6, 2012. Planning is
underway.) Conference Organizing Committee: Chair:
Bryan McCabe, Members: David Airey, Mark Jaksa, Marina
Pantazidou, Declan Phillips. International Committee:
TC306.
Objective 2:
Establish guidelines and recommendations associated with
Geo-engineering Education.
Develop recommended curricula for geotechnical
engineering courses. Task Leader: John Atkinson.
Develop a bibliography of useful geotechnical engineering
educational references. Task Leader: Marina Pantazidou.
Facilitate the sharing and dissemination of geotechnical
engineering educational resources by means of a web portal.
Task Leader: Mark Jaksa.
Establish an award, or series of awards, which recognizes
excellence in learning and teaching in geotechnical
engineering. Task Leader: Mark Jaksa.
Develop resources to improve the educational efficacy and
resource efficiency of geotechnical engineering laboratory
classes. Task Leader: Mark Jaksa.
Develop case studies from geotechnical projects that are
suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate instruction.
Task Leader: Marina Pantazidou.
Develop and maintain a ‘map’ of geotechnical engineering
which incorporates the dynamic nature of our profession.
Task Leader: Marina Pantazidou.
Develop guidelines for numerical modelling of geotechnical
problems. Task Leader: Vlasta Szavits-Nossan.
Objective 3:
Assist with technical programs of international and regional
conferences organized by the ISSMGE.
Facilitate sessions on geo-engineering education at ISSMGE
conferences, as requested. Task Leader: Marina Pantazidou
and Mark Jaksa.
Objective 4:
Interact with industry and overlapping organizations working
in areas associated with Geo-engineering Education.
Solicit involvement from industry in the development of
geo-engineering curricula. This task is aligned with Task 1.
Task Leader: John Atkinson.
Survey results from employers on the efficiency of
geotechnical education in practice. Task Leader: Vlasta
Szavits-Nossan.
(Tasks 11 and 12 are strongly aligned with Task 2.)
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