Students in the course of studies in Geotechnics are trained in course units that consider the geodynamic processes in construction soils, the stability of slopes and banks, anti-landslide measures, etc.

The graduates in this course of studies can work as technologists and designers, as well as managers of associations and companies that perform construction and exploratory activities in underground urban and water power engineering; for companies that construct metropolitan railways; in the field of the construction of industrial and domestic waste disposal sites; in the area of the consolidation of buildings and overground reinforcement facilities, etc.