Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Jeoloji Mühendisliğine Giriş
	English	Intr.to Geological Engineering
Course Code	JEO 131E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	1	1	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Emin Çiftçi
Course Objectives		1. to introduce geological engineering to new coming students 2. to present general ideas about true industrial applications of geological engineering 3. to provide informations about organizations and companies which geological engineers will work for 4. to provide general information about lab instruments and lab applications that will be used during geological engineering education 5. to present the relations of geological engineering with other academic disiplines
Course Description		Description of geological engineering, occupational areas of geological engineering, subdivisions of geology and relations with other engineering fields, occurrence of the earth, concepts of minerals and rocks, earth raw materials use for the benefit of human, metallic and non-metallic ores, energy resources, engineering geology and geotechnique, environmental geology, known and potential subsurface resources of Turkey, applications of geological engineering in Turkey and in the world, the importance of geological engineering in the future.
Course Outcomes		Students who pass this course will be able to 1. recognize the differences among geology major courses during geological engineering education 2. learn the definition of minerals and rocks, learn the continuous stages beginning from field works to laboratory studies 3. learn general features of earth crust 4. own general ideas about application fields of geological engineering 5. learn the classifications of rocks and their general occurrence environments
Pre-requisite(s)		none
Required Facilities		none
Other		none
Textbook		PLUMMER, C AND CARLSON, D., PHYSICAL GEOLOGY, MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION, 15TH EDITION, 672 PAGES; ISBN: 0078096103, 2015
Other References		Internet and other physical geology resources

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