Geo Risk Management - A new engineering education approach

This paper presents the main structure and content of the new Geo Risk Management lectures. Geo Risk Management is part of the core curriculum of the MSc in GeoEngineering, as provided by the faculty of Civil Engineering and Applied Earth Sciences of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. After a general introduction, and some attention to education and geo risk management, this paper presents an overview of the content of the MSc course. The Geo Risk Management course is subdivided in two main parts. Part one concerns the theoretical part of geotechnical risk management. Part two of the Geo Risk Management lectures covers the practical part, by exploring a number of specific topics. This paper will largely focus on part one, the more theoretical part of the course, because the content and approach of this part proved to be the most deviating from the other MSc courses. The paper ends with one main conclusion about this yet hardly explored adventure of teaching risk management, rather than the more conventional risk analysis, to MSc students.