C&EE 222

Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Properties and engineering behavior of multiphase soil systems; thermodynamics, interfacial physics, mechanics, and hydrology perspectives to understand unsaturated soil mechanics principles; geoengineering problems that involves unsaturated soils (e.g., precipitation-induced landslides, expansive soils, bearing capacity and settlement of shallow foundations, pavement and roadway drainage design, design and monitoring of waste containment facilities). May be repeated once for credit.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Fall 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording

BruinTree reads · Prerequisite

confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured data

C&EE 120

BruinTree reads · Corequisite

confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured data

C&EE 220

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

C&EE 222

C&EE 120Principles of Soil Mechanics
- C&EE 108Introduction to Mechanics of Deformable Solids
  - C&EE 91Statics2 more beneath
  - MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables2 more beneath
  - MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials2 more beneath

Unlocks

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.