Abstract:M.Pinho-Lopes@soton.ac.uk SUMMARY: An elective module on geosynthetics was designed and made available to Civil Engineering students (5 years' integrated masters). This paper reports a hands-on activity using sand and paper, adopted as part of a problem-based learning (PBL) model and the feedback collected in 2011/2012 using questionnaires. The model and its main features are briefly described, particularly the problem on soil reinforcement with geosynthetics. The students' feedback and some of their outputs a… Show more
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