ISSMGE:
Prof. Waldemar Hachich (Brazil)
Prof. Mark Jaksa (Australia)
Prof. Iacint Manoliu (Romania) 

ISRM:
Prof. Marek Kwasniewski (Poland)
Prof. Cai Meifeng (China)
Prof. Heinz Konietzky (Gertmany)

IAEG
Prof. Rafiq Azzam, (Germany)
Prof. Hyeong-Dong Park (Korea)
Prof. A.K. Turner,(USA)


Terms of Reference:

The Joint Technical Committee JTC 3: Education and Training will function in accordance with the Guidelines as defined by the presidents of the ISSMGE, IAEG, and ISRM in their meeting in Paris on November 11, 2005. In particular this means that the JTC is responsible for

1. Discussing, developing and advancing the university education and professional training in the three geo-engineering disciplines; to address issues referred to it by the Presidents of the Sister Societies including solving thematic and practical questions or studying wide-spread problems in the broad field of education and training.

2. Encouraging the collaboration of those who practice in education and training in the geo-engineering disciplines

3. Fostering and organizing Conferences, Symposia and Workshops

4. Contributing to the International Congresses of ISSMGE, IAEG, and ISRM

5. Fostering the exchange and spreading of knowledge about education and training in the geo-engineering disciplines as available from sources of the most current technical information in their fields of expertise.

6. Fostering the organization of training schools and preparation of guidelines and training packages.

7. Maintaining a website to spread the knowledge in the JTC to the individual members of the ISSMGE, IAEG, and ISRM

More specifically the JTC 3 will be working on:
8. Elaboration and maintenance of a State of the Art Report on Education and training in Engineering Geology (EG), Soil Mechanics(SM) and Rock Mechanics (RM).
The objective of this report is to monitor the situation of the above mentioned disciplines in a worldwide scope. Focus of attention should be:
     - where EG,SM and RM is taught. Regional and/or continental divisions could be established
     - How EG,SM and RM are taught. Programs and credits should be included. Undergraduate and post-graduated studies should be referred to.
     - A list of main universities and higher educational centres should be provided, with web pages and other useful information, if possible.

This JTC task a matter of work over longer periods of time, where the resulting report will improve in content over the years.

9. Preparation of Guidelines and Suggestions for University Educational Programs in the Geo-engineering disciplines (EG, SM and RM) The JTC 3 will prepare a report on the content, programs, pre-requirements and credits for the 3 geo-engineering disciplines at Bachelor and Master level. The work will be carried out in a number of stages, from mainlines to detailed, each of which stages will be open for discussion to the National Groups and Councils of the three associations. The definition of the curricula for each of the three disciplines as major topic will be accompanied by the definition of the curriculum required for the minors in the two other disciplines.

The work on this task will be based on the definition of the three disciplines as outlined in the report by the Joint European Working Group of the three Geo-engineering associations presented in 2004 by its chairman Helmut Bock.

Due to the specific requirements resulting from the Bologna declaration which only affect the European Union members, an ad-hoc report will be presented on the short term to be presented to the European National Groups and the European Union authorities.