Geophysical Engineering - Colorado School of Mines

Geophysical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines is a Campus Bachelor Geotechnical Engineering degree that prepares you for a Engineering career. Geophysics entails the study and exploration of the earth's interior through physical measurements collected at the earth's surface, in boreholes, from aircraft, and from satellites. Using a combination of mathematics, physics, geology, chemistry, hydrology, and computer science, a geophysicist analyzes these measurements to infer properties and processes within the earth's complex interior. Non-invasive imaging beneath the surface of earth and other planets by geophysicists is analogous to non-invasive imaging of the interior of the human body by medical specialists. The earth supplies all material needed by our society, serves as the repository of used products, and provides a home to all its inhabitants. Geophysics and geopohysical engineering have important roles to play in the solution of challenging problems facing the inhbitants of this planet, such as providing fresh water, food, and energy for earth's growing population, evaluating sites for underground construction and containment of hazardous waste, monitoring non-invasively the aging infrastructures of developed nations, mitigating the threat of geohazards (earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, avalanches) to populated areas, contributing to homeland security (including detection and removal of unexploded ordnance and land mines), evaluating changes in climate and managing humankind's response to them, and exploring other planets. Energy companies and mining firms employ geophysicists to explore for hidden resources around the world. Engineering firms hire geophysical engineers to assess the earth's near-surface properties when sites are chosen for large construciton projects and waste-management operations. Environmental organizations use geophysics to conduct groundwater surveys and to track the flow of contaminants. On the global scales, geophysicists employed by universities and goernment agencies (such as the United States Geological Survey, MASA, and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) try to understand such earth processes as heat flow; gravitational, magnetic, electric, thermal, and stress fields within the earth's interior. For the past decade, 100% of CSM's geophysics graduates have found employment in their chosen field, with about 20% choosing to pursue graduate studies. View more details on Colorado School of Mines . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Geotechnical Engineering courses.