Changing practice by changing education – IGS North America Educates the Educators
IGS North America successfully held their third Educate the Educators (EtE) event on December 9-10, 2019. After one-half-day on the fundamentals of geosynthetics, the remainder of the two-day event provided specialized technical training on environmental, transportation and reinforcing applications of geosynthetics. Participants were at the Assistant to Associate Professor rank and had all expressed a desire to teach geosynthetics in their courses. Amongst this group, one third initially identified as geosynthetic novices while the rest had intermediate knowledge on geosynthetics.
Key facts:
- location: University of California, San Diego
- 22 professors (19 from the USA, 3 from Canada)
- lecturers: Richard Brachman (Queen’s University), John McCartney (University of California, San Diego) and Ben Leshchinsky (Oregon State University). Sponsor representatives John Lostumbo, Adam Maskal, and Lilma Schimmel were also part of the instructional team. Special thanks are expressed to Jorge Zornberg (University of Texas at Austin) and Richard Bathurst (Royal Military College of Canada) for sharing their transportation and reinforcement notes with the class.
- sponsors: Cetco / Mineral Technologies, HUESKER, Solmax, TenCate Geosynthetics
