Teaching Activities of Derek Elsworth

Teaching and Learning Concepts:

• Promotes a comfortable classroom environment which provides open discussions and instructor/student interaction.

• Uses real world examples and data to develop problem solving skills.

• Provides the students with the "nuts and bolts" through learning components necessary to build a strong foundation and understanding of different processes.

• Provides students with course boundaries and then turns the decision making processes over to them.

Courses:

EM SC 470W UNDERGRADUATE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN EARTH AND MATERIALS SCIENCES, CAUSE 2000 - Energy and Society: Energy Choices for the New Millennium, (3 - 6) Interdisciplinary research seminar involving students in the process of discovery, writing, and debate on issues of broad interest to Earth and Materials Sciences.

EM SC 470W UNDERGRADUATE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN EARTH AND MATERIALS SCIENCES, CAUSE 2003 - Energy and Society: Industrial Revolution to Industrial Ecology, (3 - 6) Interdisciplinary research seminar involving students in the process of discovery, writing, and debate on issues of broad interest to Earth and Materials Sciences.

GEOEE 408 CHARACTERIZATION OF GROUNDWATER SYSTEMS (3) Groundwater flow and transport; agents of contamination; aquifer characterization and remediation; case studies. Prerequisite: GEOSC 452.

GEOEE 500 PHYSICAL BEHAVIOR OF GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS (3) Physical processes governing mobility, transport, and attenuation in natural and engineered systems of relevance to geo-environmental engineering.

GEOEE 557 (MNG) COMPUTATIONAL GEOMECHANICS I (3) Finite element and boundary element analysis of rock mechanics, groundwater flow, and mass transport.

GEOEE 559 (MNG) CONSOLIDATION OF POROUS MEDIA (2) Coupled fluid flow and deformation behavior of geologic media. Theory and applications in geological, environmental, and petroleum engineering. Prerequisite: MNG 557.

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