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Introduction	p. XI
1 Invited papers
Civil and geotechnical engineering in society--Ethical aspects and future prospects	p. 3
The impact of knowledge management and ICT	p. 15
Teaching geotechnical engineering 1950-2000 and beyond	p. 25
Education in earthquake geotechnical engineering: Practice and needs	p. 33
Developing computer based instruction for geotechnical education	p. 47
Trends in engineering education worldwide and their relevance for geotechnical engineering education	p. 63
2 National reports on geotechnical engineering education
Geotechnical engineering education and training in Belgium	p. 85
Geotechnical engineering education and training in Brazil	p. 89
Some problems of the geotechnical engineering education in Bulgaria	p. 97
A brief view of the education in geotechnical engineering in Chile	p. 101
La formation en geotechnique en Cote d'Ivoire	p. 105
Geotechnical engineering education and training in Croatia	p. 107
L'enseignement de la mecanique des sols en France dans les formations d'ingenieur en genie civil	p. 115
Geotechnical engineering education in Germany	p. 119
Geotechnical engineering education in Greece	p. 123
Geotechnical education in Ireland	p. 127
An overview of geotechnical engineering education in Japan	p. 131
Geotechnical engineering education and training in Lithuania	p. 137
National report--Mexico	p. 141
Geotechnical engineering education in New Zealand	p. 145
On geotechnical engineering education and training in Poland	p. 149
Geotechnical engineering education in Romania	p. 155
Geotechnical engineering education in Sri Lanka	p. 163
Geotechnical engineering education and training in Sweden	p. 167
Geotechnical Engineering (GE) education in Vietnam and some ideas on future improvement	p. 171
3 Place, role and content of geotechnical engineering in civil, environmental and earthquake engineering curricula, at undergraduate and post-graduate level
The importance of education in geotechnical engineering	p. 179
Enseignement de la geotechnique a l'universite de Tizi-Ouzou, Algerie	p. 183
Underground structures mechanics as a part of geotechnical engineering	p. 187
New trends in geotechnical engineering education	p. 193
Geomechanics in construction management	p. 197
Enseignement de la geotechnique dans les departements de genie civil de l'Institut Universitaire de Technologie, France	p. 201
Geotechnical engineering education in Tongji University	p. 203
Notes on geotechnics in the university curriculum	p. 207
The necessity of knowledge of geotechnics for officers of military ground forces	p. 211
Education and training of geotechnical engineering specialists for various branches of construction	p. 215
UFV's geotechnical engineering experience: Curricula at the graduate and undergraduate geotechnical engineering courses	p. 217
Geotechnical education and training in St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering	p. 223
The geotechnical engineering courses at the University of Minho, Portugal	p. 225
Specific aspects of geotechnical engineering education at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees	p. 231
Teaching of geotechnics at the Czech Technical University	p. 237
Challenges in geotechnical engineering education	p. 241
4 Teaching, learning and assessment in geotechnical engineering education
Teaching of knowledge concerning the behaviour of unsaturated soils	p. 251
Utility of physical models for a better understanding of soil behaviour	p. 257
Limit equilibrium methods for stability analysis in landfills	p. 265
Geotechnical centrifuge applications to foundations engineering teaching	p. 271
Enseignement de la rheologie experimentale pour la recherche	p. 275
Un enseignement de specialite, le cours de stabilite des pentes de l'ENTPE	p. 283
Teaching earth pressure problems and stability problems from the point of applied mechanics	p. 289
Uncertainty in basic laboratory and field properties of geomaterials	p. 297
The usefullness of a multidisciplinary approach in geotechnical engineering education claimed by slope stability analyses	p. 303
Some experience after lecturing on ground improvement at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Silesian Technical University in Gliwice	p. 311
5 The use of information and communication technology--ICT in geotechnical engineering education
Geomeca--Multimedia pour l'education: Comportement des sols	p. 317
Demonstration models for undergraduate teaching in geotechnics	p. 325
Interactive multimedia geotechnical engineering course	p. 329
Computer aided learning in geotechnical engineering education	p. 335
The use of simple models for undergraduate teaching of geomechanics	p. 343
Place des methodes numeriques dans l'enseignement de la geotechnique	p. 349
GIS--Necessity and means of work in the near future for geotechnicians	p. 361
Building research skills: A course-integrated training method	p. 365
Educating geotechnical engineers in the age of computers	p. 371
Application of geotechnical software in education	p. 375
An interactive approach for geotechnical engineering education	p. 381
On the computer aided education of analysis of vertical stresses and settlements of the elastic half-space loaded with various vertical loads	p. 383
Stresses and settlements in homogeneous, elastic, isotropic half space, under the load described by a plane over the rectangle	p. 389
Introduction into dynamical soil-structure interaction problems	p. 395
6 Case studies in geotechnical engineering education Use of case histories comparison in teaching process
Use of case histories comparison in teaching process	p. 403
The practical experience of professors on the geotechnical teaching process	p. 409
Statnamic load testing: After the successes in the USA and Asia, getting ready for Europe	p. 413
A determination to suction capacity of clay with an empirical method	p. 421
Focus on real life problems facilitating learning and understanding	p. 425
Etude dans le cadre d'une mobilite universitaire du glissement de terrain de Mont de l'Enclus	p. 433
The importance of teaching case histories in the geotechnical education in Austria	p. 441
Straightening of tall structures tilted as a consequence of uneven settlement of foundation soil: Case histories	p. 447
7 History, lifelong learning and international cooperation in geotechnical engineering education
History of soil mechanics at MIT, 1925-1996	p. 457
Future challenges and opportunities for the geotechnical teaching	p. 463
Pour l'enseignement de l'histoire de la geotechnique	p. 469
The collaborative geotechnical engineering research of students in the Civil Engineering Department, Khon Kaen University, Thailand	p. 477
La formation continue en geotechnique a l'Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, France	p. 483
International cooperation in geotechnical engineering education--A case study involving Romanian and EU universities	p. 487
Taught postgraduate geotechnical education in Scotland	p. 495
Geotechnical engineering: French universities postgraduate programs--Doctorate: D.E.A. + 3-4 years	p. 501
International student exchanges: Conditions for a broader development	p. 503
8 Additional paper
Basic aspects of Environmental Geotechnics education	p. 509
Author index	p. 523