The traditional scope of engineering geology was the application of geology in construction practice, but this has become widened in time to embrace other fields of engineering, environmental concerns and geological hazards. The subject lies at the interface between the observation and description of natural processes associated with the science of geology and the knowledge of numeracy and mate...

Many papers have been published related to the retention and advancement of women in sciences. Engineering geology is one of the professional areas where women have not yet broken the gender barrier. The research issues of this paper are focused on why female students "leak out" at the end of engineering geology studies, and what can be done to encourage them to complete their degrees with an e...

Department of Science and Technology, College of Arts and Sciences, Bryant University, Smithfield, RI 02917, USA b State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, IEE, CAS, Xi’an 710075, PR China c School of Human Settlement and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, PR China d LPS, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS, Nanjing 210008, PR China Departme...

(1) Laboratory for Hydrogeology, Department of Geology-Geography, Faculty of Exact Science, Catholic University of Leuven, Redingenstraat 16, 3000 Leuven, Belgium (2) Department of Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary (3) Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, Department of Georesources, Geotechnologies and Building Materials (GEOMAC), University of Liè...