Master's Degree in Geotechnical Engineering and Foundations
Structuralia
Key Information
Campus location
Online
Languages
English
Study format
Distance Learning
Duration
1 year
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
EUR 6,490
Application deadline
Request info
Earliest start date
20 May 2024
Introduction
Why Take This Master's Degree?
It is a global discipline that is a part of engineering. Every construction is laid on and interacts with soil.
The Master’s degree in Geotechnical Engineering and Foundations at Structuralia aims to strengthen, increase, and consolidate the knowledge and skills of construction, geology, and civil engineering professionals in the field of Geotechnical Engineering through a total of 9 modules. In addition to the main general concepts, the program focuses special attention on numerical modeling applications using a solid theoretical framework and practical exercises.
This field is comprised of numerous areas of knowledge (Geology, Mechanics of continuous media, Mechanics of fluids, etc). Great current and future underground infrastructure development. Continuous innovation and research. It provides a good professional perspective and opportunities.
Scholarships and Funding
Organization of American States (OAS)
Since 2010, Structuralia has offered a scholarship program for master's degrees in Spanish and English, in conjunction with the Organization of American States (OAS) aimed at outstanding professionals from the Americas, included in the Partnerships for Education and Training Program (PAEC). , from which more than 3,500 students in the region have already benefited.
Pan American Association of Educational Credit Institutions (APICE)
Structural and the Pan American Association of Educational Credit Institutions (APICE) offer a specialized training scholarship program aimed at professionals from Latin America and the Caribbean in specialized master's degrees in the STEM sector.
EDUCA EDTECH Foundation
EDUCA EDTECH Foundation was created to promote personal and professional growth while betting on the transfer of knowledge as a means to change the world. For this reason, the Foundation assumes the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals as paramount. To achieve the above, the institution works to be a reference entity, ensuring the implementation of solutions and the granting of aid to those people who deserve it.
Curriculum
A Master's Degree in Geotechnical Engineering and Foundations consists of 60 ECTS.
- Introduction to geotechnics. Soil and rocks
- Groundwater. Effects on soils and rocks.
- Ground Characterization and Instrumentation and Monitoring.
- Continuum mechanics and constitutive models. Application to soils and rocks.
- Earth pressures and retaining structures.
- Slope stability analyses
- Shallow Foundations
- Deep Foundations
- Numerical modeling in geotechnics. Applications with Plaxis 2D.
- MFP. Master's Degree in Geotechnical engineering and foundations