Role of Case Histories on Geotechnical Engineering Teaching and Practice

Geotechnical engineering teaching can be made more interesting with the use of modern methods of teaching and learning aids, visits to construction projects, case studies etc. A faculty at an university/technical institute, who is actively involved in geotechnical designs and consultancy works, will have enough case studies, with the examples of which he, will be able to deliver his lectures more effectively and make a good impression upon the students. The universal mantra nowadays is ‘learning should be made more student centric’. At the author\u27s institute, where a post-graduate and doctoral programme in geotechnical engineering are being successfully run for the past two decades, some of his experiences in effectively teaching geotechnical engineering subjects are being explained in the following paragraphs, with the help of a number of case histories on geopractices