Department of Geotechnics and Transportation

Welcome to the Department of Geotechnics and Transportation, Faculty of Civil Engineering. This Department comprises two main sections; the geotechnical engineering  and the transportation.

Geotechnical engineering which generally deals with natural materials near the earth’s surface utilizes the principles of soil mechanics and rock mechanics in designing safe, economical and environmentally sustainable foundations, retaining structures and earth structures. Transportation meanwhile is a broad discipline which involves planning, designing, construction, operation, maintenance and control of transportation facilities to ensure the provision of safe, economical, effective and efficient as well as environmentally sustainable transport services.

Presently, this department consist of 27 lecturers for both sections. Four professors, five associate professors and the remaining consist of senior lecturers. This department also offers two postgraduate programme that are Master in Geotechnical Engineering and Master in Transportion Engineering.

As for research activities, different research groups associated with different sub-areas were formed. The Geotechnical Research Group (GRG) are associated with geotechnical engineering, whereas the Pavement and Transport Research Group (PTRG) is linked to transportation and highway engineering. Research outputs are normally shared with interested parties via journal papers, seminars, conferences, short courses and colloquiums. 

As can be seen, hundreds of technical papers produced by the academic staff and researchers in the Department have been published in renowned journals and proceedings, in addition to innovative research products. Moreover, a center of excellence specifically related to tropical geoengineering (GEOTROPIK) was recently formed.