Ⅰ.Introduction

Characterized by rail transit engineering geology, the geological engineering major of Southwest Jiaotong University (“SWJTU”) keeps abreast with needs of national and regional economic and social development to build a domestic first-class and internationally well-known integrated application and innovation major in the field of rail transit.

Geological engineering boasts a long development history and profound academic accumulation. In 1905, SWJTU set up a mining department to offer geology courses. In 1958, in order to meet the needs of key national construction projects such as Baoji-Chengdu Railway and Chengdu-Kunming Railway, SWJTU, with the approval of the Ministry of Railways, established the hydrogeology and engineering geology major, becoming the only institution of higher learning in the railway industry with a major of geological engineering. Academicians He Jie, Chen Qingru, Xue Yuqun, etc., leading academic figures in the field of geology in China, all graduated from this major. In the course of over 60 years of running a school, SWJTU has always been upholding the tradition of “rigorous scholarship and strict requirements”, with distinct regional strengths in western mountainous areas and characteristics of rail transit industry. Recently, in response to the “Belt and Road Initiative”, SWJTU, relying on Sichuan-Tibet, Yunnan-Tibet, China-Pakistan, China-Nepal and other railway projects, and in combination with its two first-class constructions, aims to conduct first-class professional construction for major engineering geological problems in the complex and dangerous mountainous areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

This major is a major in national characteristic and outstanding engineers training program. It emphasizes the trinity academic concept of “geological process-mechanical mechanism-engineering technology”. It aims to cultivate geological engineering professionals who have profound geological and mathematical mechanics foundation, who can independently engage in survey, design, construction and management in rail transit, civil construction and other engineering construction, and who have social responsibility and sound personality, professional ethics and scientific literacy, historical vision and global vision, innovative spirit and critical thinking.

Program Code: 081401

Program Name: Geological Engineering

Ⅱ. Objectives

SWJTU intends to train geological engineering professionals who meet the needs of the socialist modernization construction with Chinese characteristics in the new era, gain all-around development of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetics and labor education, acquire basic engineering training and have innovative spirit. Graduates are mainly engaged in planning, surveying, design, construction, scientific and technological development and management related to engineering geology in railway and other engineering construction departments. After about five years of work, graduates will have the actual working competence of geological engineers, and can serve in technical backbone and management positions of production, scientific research and engineering design.

Specific goals are as follows:

Goal 1: Master general and specialized technical knowledge and relevant skills of geological engineering.

Goal 2: Have the ability to analyze and address problems in geological engineering, and have related scientific research capacity and professional capacity.

Goal 3: Master basic knowledge of project management in engineering geology and have the ability to participate in project management.

Goal 4: Have the ability of continuous learning, effective communication and communication.

Goal 5: Have good professional ethics and shoulder professional and social responsibility.

III. Graduation Requirements

Graduation requirement 1: Graduates should have solid basic knowledge of mathematics, physics, mechanics and chemistry, and master basic theories, methods and skills of engineering geology to solve complex engineering geological problems in engineering construction and operation.

Graduation requirement 2: Graduates can apply principles of natural science and engineering science such as mathematics, mechanics, geophysical exploration and survey technology, engineering geological theory, etc., and analyze complex engineering geological problems in the process of engineering construction and operation through literature research and other methods so as to obtain reliable conclusions.

Graduation requirement 3: Graduates should master the basic skills of indoor and outdoor working methods and description of geological phenomena, have the ability to obtain relevant geological parameters of engineering design through comprehensive engineering geological survey, have the basic ability to conduct engineering survey, evaluation of engineering geological conditions and engineering design of geological disaster mitigation and prevention, and understand relevant safety, environmental protection, legal and other knowledge.

Graduation requirement 4: Graduates should systematically master the theories, methods and technologies of basic geology, geophysics and engineering geology, have a strong sense of innovation, and have the basic ability to conduct comprehensive research on engineering geological problems by using multidisciplinary methods.

Graduation requirement 5: Graduates should have the ability to employ modern tools such as geotechnical property-related testing equipment and simulation software to address complex engineering geological problems such as engineering geological related parameters, geotechnical stability, geological disaster prevention, etc.

Graduation requirement 6: Graduates should correctly understand the impact of engineering geological problems on society, health, safety, law and culture, have corresponding awareness of environmental protection, law and safety, and understand their due responsibilities.

Graduation requirement 7: Graduates should be familiar with national guidelines, policies and regulations on engineering geological survey, evaluation of engineering geological conditions and environment, and able to understand and evaluate the impact of geological problems arising from engineering construction and operation on sustainable development of environment, economy and society.

Graduation requirement 8: Graduates should have good humanities and social science literacy; advocate science, conduct rigorous research, integrate theory with practice, and pursue a pioneering and enterprising, realistic and innovative style; have a strong sense of social responsibility and good professional ethics.

Graduation requirement 9: Graduates should have strong team consciousness and cooperation spirit, and assume roles of individual, team member and responsible person in the team under the multi-disciplinary background.

Graduation requirement 10: Graduates should be able to skillfully prepare professional related charts and write professional research reports; master a foreign language, read foreign language documents of this major, and have basic abilities of listening, speaking, writing and translating; have a certain international perspective and able to communicate under a cross-cultural background.

Graduation requirement 11: Graduates should master the decision-making methods of engineering geological condition evaluation and engineering economic evaluation and management, and apply them in engineering geological problem analysis and engineering practice.

Graduation requirement 12: Graduates should have healthy physique and good psychological quality; have the consciousness to acquire new knowledge, and have the ability to continuously learn and adapt to development.

IV. Duration and Degree

Duration: 4

Degree: Bachelor of Engineering

V. Main Subject and Main Course

Main Subject：Geological Engineering

Main Course：Structural Mechanics，Engineering surveying，Physical Geology，Petrology，Structural Geology，Soil Mechanics，Rock Mechanics，Introduction to Hydrogeology，Geophysical Exploration，Engineering Geology.