岩土工程计划的主要任务是两个：在本科生和研究生中提供高质量的教育，以及在岩土工程和岩土力学领域制定并维护具有区域和国家意义的强有力的研究计划。这些程序旨在使学生对地质介质的行为，在这些地质介质上构建或使用的结构以及地质介质对环境问题和解决方案的贡献有基本的了解。研究的主题涉及土壤的静态和动态行为，土壤与结构的相互作用，本构模型，非饱和土壤力学，大型和小型的土壤性质实验室评估，地基工程，理化性质对土壤力学性质和原位的影响土壤的静态和动态行为（包括污染物传输过程）的测试和离心建模。该计划强烈鼓励土壤力学，地质
The Geotechnical Engineering program has two primary missions: provide quality education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and develop and maintain strong research programs of regional and national significance in the areas of geotechnical engineering and geomechanics. These programs are designed to provide students with fundamental understanding of the behavior of geologic media, of structures constructed on or using these geologic media and of the contributions of geologic media to environmental problems and solutions. The topics studied relate to static and dynamic behavior of soils, soil-structure interaction, constitutive modeling, unsaturated soil mechanics, large and small scale laboratory evaluations of soil properties, foundation engineering, the influence of physicochemical properties on mechanical behavior of soils and in situ testing and centrifuge modeling of static and dynamic behavior of soils, including pollutant transport processes. The program strongly encourages interaction between the various disciplines of soil mechanics, geomechanics and environmental engineering. The program emphasizes both analytical/numerical and experimental methods that aid in the advancement of modeling, analysis and design.