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Geotechnical Engineering – Assignment 1

Why is my course important?  We’re asked to explain this “to” our students or “for” our students in our syllabus.  Not that I can’t do this, but should I?  Is explaining the “importance” of our class just another example of … Continue reading Continue reading

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Student choices in assignments

Been musing about student choices within assignments, specifically in my field of geotechnical engineering.  How to do this? Consider an assignment calculating seepage below a dam or levee resting on layered soil, for example.  The designer must have values of … Continue reading Continue reading

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