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Most high school students don’t know much about GE. We apply our engineering
skills to protect and preserve the environment in which we live. We also work
outdoors much of the time with emphasis on geotechnical and environmental
problems. We study geological hazards such as landslides, rock falls,
earthquakes, dam failures and levee failures (think New Orleans, see picture
below). We are the
people who are called in to study and clean up contaminated sites throughout the
world. We help develop drinking water supplies here and in other parts of the
world. We also study rock mechanics (rock strength and failure) which is
critical to the petroleum, mining, civil, and environmental industries. |
