C&EE 123 · CEE 123Advanced Geotechnical Design
Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
(Formerly numbered C123.) Slope stability analysis, including limit equilibrium procedures, finite element method, seepage analysis, and advanced topics such as rapid drawdown, construction of embankments on soft soil, and seismic slope stability. Lateral earth retention systems including gravity walls and excavation support systems. Capstone design project involving appropriate engineering standards and realistic constraints.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 121, 190. Corequisite: course 132.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
C&EE 123
- C&EE 121Design of Foundations and Earth Structures
- C&EE 120Principles of Soil Mechanics
- C&EE 132Dynamics of Rigid and Flexible Structures
- C&EE 91Statics
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- C&EE 190Professional Practice
3 direct requisites. Showing 25 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.