Students will be able to recognize minerals and rocks and put them in the appropriate context for engineering applications. What are the engineering properties of rocks. Students attend class for 75 minutes each week. A quiz is given at start of every lecture session. Students attend a 75 minute review session 3 times during the semester Students attend a 3-hour laboratory section every week.
Students identify mineral specimens in homework kits.
Performance on quizzes Performance on 3 exams plus a comprehensive final Performance on laboratory exercises. For more information contact the Webmaster .