Host Member Society: Italy
Short name: Geo-education (TC306)
TC306 focuses on the fundamentals of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering, i.e. topics typically covered in undergraduate curricula. Its primary, but not exclusive, audience is currently active, past and future geotechnical engineering educators. The goal guiding TC306's efforts is the establishment of an active and welcoming geotechnical engineering education community that provides support and resources to all geotechnical engineering educators.
TC306 web ecosystem
Updated information on the activities of TC306, besides being reported in this web portal hosted by ISSMGE, is also available in the following online venues.
ISSMGE online library: online access to proceedings of TC306 conferences
ISSMGE Education / Peer-reviewed Educational Materials: collections of peer-reviewed educational material
TC306 YouTube channel: official channel for the dissemination of videos
TC306 GeoWorld website: web repository and forum for discussions
TC306 ZENODO community: TC306 educational material with DOI
Email distribution list: distribution list of Geotechnical Engineering Education news (on Google groups)
Work method
TC306 work is accomplished through meetings, working groups and task forces.
MEETINGS
Meetings take place at ICSMGE and ECSMGE conferences, via e-mail and online meeting platforms (minutes are produced for all kinds of meetings).
WORKING GROUP
Organization of Conferences & Workshops (coordinator: TC306 chair)
TASK FORCES
Pedagogical Knowledge of Geotechnical Engineering (leader: Marina Pantazidou)
The 6th International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering Education 2025 (GEE 2025) will start in Nancy (France) in a few days, but the Proceedings are already online. You can find them in the ISSMGE open access Online Library, within the database TC306 Conferences on Educatio
…On the occasion of the International Day of Education, January 24, the Technical Committee 306 on Geo-Engineering Education emphasizes the crucial role university education plays in advancing the state of knowledge within the geotechnical engineering field. In this day, we encour
…On Thursday, January 16, 2025, at 15:00 UTC, Professor Albert Valocchi will talk about "User-Friendly Interactive Models for Groundwater Education Still Useful After 25 years!", as part of the International Webinar Series on Geoenvironmental Engineering, Sustainability,
…
You still have one day to submit your abstract to GEE 2025 until tomorrow, October 15, 2024!
Please note that the paper submission deadline will remain February 5, 2025 - there will be no extension for the papers.
The Conference is organized by the Technical Commit
…
There is still one week to submit your abstract to GEE 2025 until October 15, 2024.
Please note that the paper submission deadline will remain February 5, 2025 - there will be no extension for the papers.
The Conference is organized by the Technical Committee
…
The abstract submission deadline for GEE 2025 is extended to October 15, 2024.
Please note that the paper submission deadline will remain February 5, 2025 - there will be no extension for the papers.
The Conference is organized by the Technical Committee TC306
…The eighteenth episode of International Interactive Technical Talk has just been launched and is supported by TC306. Marina Pantazidou, Charles John MacRobert, Emil Mejlhede Kinslev and Ezra Y. S. Tjung are discussing with Marc Ballouz about “Geo-engineering Education&rdquo
…
The Conference Geotechnical Engineering Education 2025 (GEE 2025): Charting the path toward the future will be held in Nancy, France, on July 2-4, 2025. The Conference is organized by the Technical Committee TC306 for Geo-engineering Education of the ISSMGE, un
…Learning how to learn is a Coursera Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) and one of the most popular MOOCs of all times. As of Feb. 5, 2024, 3,704,657 students have enrolled.
The course provides lots of new information for college students. For more seasoned, independent learners
…The attached file is a summary of the paper accompanying the 3rd Blight Honor Lecture delivered by Alonso (2023) at the 8th UNSAT, titled "The positive history of an error. Modelling the heave of a nuclear power station". The summary is meant to play the role of a guide
…In the context of the collaboration between TC215 (Environmental Geotechnics), which organizes the 9th Int. Congress on Environmental Geotechnics (9ICEG) in June 25-28, 2023, in Chania, Greece, and TC306 (Geo-Education), creators of any kind of educational material about which th
…At the PanAm UNSAT 2021 preconference webinar "Teaching unsaturated soil mechanics at the undergraduate level" (Del Fredlund, Bernardo Caicedo, John McCartney, Katia Bicalho, Gilson Gitirana), we heard about how specialists teach unsaturated soil mechanics in thei
…TC306 will miss dearly Waldemar Coelho Hachich, Professor of Geotechnical and Structural Engineering (PEF) at Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo, Brazil, past TC306 chair (2013-2017) and always active member. For TC306, the legacy of Waldemar Hac
…A new GEE post (GEE = Geotechnical Engineering Education) has been uploaded on TC306's website (menu item: GEE posts).
The post reviews online educational material (3-5 minute videos), named geo-engineering pop-quizzes by their originator, Prof. Tim Stark.&nb
…The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) amended its Constitution and added a Vice President for Scholarship to the Board, as voted by the ASEE Board of Directors in February 2022 and approved by the members in a ballot that took place in April-May 2022. According to
…The contribution of TC306 to the Time Capsule Project has been uploaded under the tab "Reports" of the TC306 webpage. The contents of the TC306 Time Capsule Report were discussed at the committee meeting of April 2021 and the country-specific contributions were provided
…TC306 implemented a new "corner" of its website (a new menu on the left, called GEE posts), devoted to Geotechnical Engineering Education posts specifically written for geotechnical engineering instructors . Any GEE post starts as a short contribution written by a
…Technical Committee TC105, Geomechanics from Micro to Macro, organizes five seminars on "Discrete Element Method (DEM) in geotechnical engineering education", on February 8 (Francois Guillard & Benjy Marks), February 22 (Benjy Marks & Francois Guillard), March 2
…We are delighted to announce an important distinction for the community of geotechnical engineering education: our application for Scopus listing was approved for the series of the conference proceedings Geotechnical Engineering Education (ISSN 2732-7256), starting with the GEE 2
…Most ISSMGE Technical Committees are dedicated to specialized topics within Geotechnical Engineering. TC306 focuses on the key principles and concepts typically covered in undergraduate curricula. Among its aims is to promote the approach of content from a teaching point of view,
…Prof. Marina Pantazidou, Chair ot TC306, delivered a Geoenvironmental Engineering Webinar on Teaching Environmental Geotechnics: Behind the Scenes, subtitle "Why both students and teachers can benefit from understanding (a little bit) how the brain works".
…TC306 and its Chair Prof. Marina Pantazidou are pleased to launch an educational video on “What happens when soil compresses” using best instructional practices, and make it available through ISSMGE’s Virtual University platform. Specifically:
…Here’s a compilation of educational material that starts with the question “how can I motivate the study of Soil Mechanics topics in my class?” and provides answers with a combination of materials drawn from practice, research and education. One of the best ways
…
Following the unprecedented changes in our personal and professional lives due to Covid-19 and after careful consideration and evaluation of the risks and alternatives, the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering Education (GEE 2020),
…
The Conference Geotechnical Engineering Education 2020 (GEE2020) will be held in Athens, Greece, on June 24-25 2020. The Conference is organized by the Technical Committee TC306 for Geo-Engineering Education of the ISSMGE, under the auspices of the Helleni
…The following is a synthesis of excerpts from a short article by Lee Shulman that conforms to the 200 word limit allowed by the publisher for free use. Please check out the article here. Lee Shulman is an educational psychologist, professor emeritus at Stanford Graduate School of
…The case-study webinar "Porto Tolle test embankment - A full scale experiment on the consolidation of a thick clay layer" delivered by Prof. Carlo Viggiani, Emeritus Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at University of Naples “Federico II” (Italy), is avai
…Professor John Burland has developed a suite of five short videos (2 to 6 minutes) on the engineering behavior of soil. The emphasis is on the particulate nature of soils and its implications for soil strength. All videos are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonComme
…Workshop Theme
GeoEngineering Education: What should graduates be able to do & What and How to teach to enable them to do it
Workshop Presentations
Introduction: Marina Pantazidou PDF, Panelists: Gye-Chun Cho PDF, Carlos Santamarina PDF, Cino Viggiani PDF
Workshop
…First John Burland Lecture: "Basic Geotechnical Engineering Skills - What Can Graduates Do?"
Delivered by Prof. John Atkinson, on October 20, 2016, on occasion of SFGE 2016 (Shaping the Future of Geotechnical Education), the International Conference on Geo-Engineering
| # | Type | Full Name | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chair | Michele Calvello | Italy |
| 2 | Vice Chair | Marina Pantazidou | Greece |
| 3 | Secretary | Margarida Pinho Lopes | Portugal |
| 4 | Nominated by TC Chair | Rodrigo Salgado | United States |
| 5 | Nominated by TC Chair | Francesca Ceccato | Italy |
| 6 | Nominated Member | Roberto Vassallo | Italy |
| 7 | Corresponding Member | Brian Byrne | Ireland |
| 8 | Nominated Member | Fayrouz Yasser | Egypt |
| 9 | Nominated Member | Muhsin Rahhal | Lebanon |
| 10 | Nominated Member | Klaas Siderius | Netherlands |
| 11 | Nominated Member | Andy Leung | Hong Kong Special Administrative Region |
| 12 | Nominated Member | Jun Yang | Hong Kong Special Administrative Region |
| 13 | Nominated Member | Kurt Douglas | Australia |
| 14 | Nominated Member | Thomas Shire | United Kingdom |
| 15 | Nominated Member | John Atkinson | United Kingdom |
| 16 | Nominated Member | Manuel Matos Fernandes | Portugal |
| 17 | Nominated Member | Anitha G. Pillai | India |
| 18 | Corresponding Member | Saibaba Reddy | India |
| 19 | Nominated Member | Masrouri Farimah | France |
| 20 | Nominated Member | Mamoru Kikumoto | Japan |
| 21 | Nominated Member | Bryan McCabe | Ireland |
| 22 | Nominated Member | Emil Mejlhede Kinslev | Denmark |
| 23 | Corresponding Member | Giovanna Biscontin | United Kingdom |
| 24 | Nominated Member | Silvana Montoya-Noguera | Colombia |
| 25 | Nominated Member | Gretchen Bohnhoff | United States |
| 26 | Nominated Member | George Anoyatis | Belgium |
| 27 | Nominated Member | Roberto Valentino | Italy |
| 28 | Nominated Member | Silvina Echazú Lamas | Argentina |
| 29 | Corresponding Member | Vasiliki Dimitriadi | Greece |
| 30 | Corresponding Member | Polyxeni Kallioglou | Greece |
| 31 | Nominated Member | Vasiliki Xenaki | Greece |
| 32 | Corresponding Member | Mark Jaksa | Australia |
| 33 | Nominated Member | Xia Li | China |
| 34 | Nominated Member | Wolfgang Fellin | Austria |
| 35 | Corresponding Member | Ilhan Chang | South Korea |
| 36 | Nominated Member | Katia Bicalho | Brazil |
| 37 | Nominated Member | Huabei Liu | China |
| 38 | Nominated Member | M. Rama Rao | India |
| 39 | Nominated Member | Ezra Tjung | Indonesia |
| 40 | Nominated Member | Tae-Hyuk Kwon | South Korea |
| 41 | Nominated Member | Ansgar Kirsch | Germany |
| 42 | Nominated Member | Katharina Kluge | Germany |
| 43 | Nominated Member | Asif Ahmed | United States |
| 44 | Nominated Member | Tugba Eskişar Tefçi | Turkey |
| 45 | Corresponding Member | Ana Heitor | United Kingdom |
| 46 | Nominated Member | Charles MacRobert | South Africa |
| 47 | Nominated Member | George Fanourakis | South Africa |
| 48 | Nominated Member | David Airey | Australia |
| 49 | Nominated Member | Francisco Javier Torrijo | Spain |
| 50 | Corresponding Member | Francisco Javier Manzano Diosdado | Spain |
| 51 | Corresponding Member | Anna Ramón Tarragona | Spain |
| 52 | Nominated Member | SOON MIN NG | Malaysia |
| 53 | Nominated Member | Toshifumi Mukunoki | Japan |
| 54 | Nominated Member | Alberto Ledesma | Spain |
| 55 | Corresponding Member | Hideki Ohta | Japan |
| 56 | Nominated Member | Rolando Orense | New Zealand |
| 57 | Nominated Member | Orianne JENCK | France |
| 58 | Nominated Member | MIGUEL ÁNGEL FIGUERAS CORTE | Mexico |
| 59 | Nominated Member | Biljana Kovačević Zelić | Croatia |
| 60 | Corresponding Member | Robert Lanzafame | United States |
| 61 | Nominated Member | Liang Cui | Canada |
The “John Burland Lecture” is TC306 Honor lecture.
Third John Burland Lecture
Delivered by Prof. Marina Pantazidou on July 2, 2025, during the online International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering Education, GEE 2025, organized by TC306 in Nancy, France.
Second John Burland Lecture
Delivered by Prof. Mark Jaksa on June 23, 2020, during the online International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering Education, GEE 2020, streamed from Athens, Greece.
First John Burland Lecture
"Basic Geotechnical Engineering Skills - What Can Graduates Do?"
Delivered by Prof. John Atkinson, on October 20, 2016, on occasion of SFGE 2016 (Shaping the Future of Geotechnical Education), the International Conference on Geo-Engineering Education, organized by TC306 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
This is the "corner" of TC306 devoted to Geotechnical Engineering Education posts (GEE posts) specifically written for geotechnical engineering instructors. Any GEE post starts as a short contribution written by a TC306 member. The submission is then discussed within the TC. The final post reflects the result of this interaction (consensus is desired but not a prerequisite). It is expected that, with time, some templates attractive to instructors will emerge.
Published posts
New posts will appear in this section soon. Stay tuned for news.
Publication Policies: TC306_PublicationPolicies.pdf
REPORTS for ISSMGE
Administrative Report August 2017: TC306_Administrative_Report_2017.pdf
Mid-term Report April 2019: TC306Mid-termReport2017-2019.pdf
Administrative Report December 2021: TC306_Administrative_Report_2017-2021.pdf
Time Capsule Report: TimeCapsuleContribution-TC306-April2022.pdf
