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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Seismology to Earthquake Engineering by École Polytechnique

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About the Course

This course ranges from the earth structure, the generation of earthquakes and seismic waves by faults to the seismic response of soils, foundations and structures as well as seismic risk. It is consequently aimed at undergraduates, graduates and professionals interested in engineering seismology, earthquake engineering or seismic risk. It investigates various technical fields: rock mechanics, soil dynamics, structural dynamics and dynamic soil-structure interaction. Various types of sessions are proposed: regular sessions describing a phenomenon or explaining its basic principles, lab sessions illustrating concepts through simple experiments (fault motion, liquefaction, resonant column tests, shaking table tests) and research topics focusing on advanced topics from various research fields (e.g. magnet-Earth, seismicity of Mars, seismic sensors, probabilistic approaches). Several quizzes, as well as 3 mini-projects, will allow you to check your knowledge and assess your understanding of the various topics....

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By Pasquale D S

Jan 8, 2022

The course is of intermediate-advanced level. The material is quite good, and the instructors manage to convey the gist of the discipline, testing your understanding wirh quizzes and above all 'problems' requiring numerical and graphical evaluations. Why only three stars? Three issues: i) there is no course material, neither notes nor slides (not even a recommended texbook). When requiring to extensively use equations, this is particularly bad. ii) There are several issues with some problems and/or autocorrector, including also typos; some of these have been identified and reported on the Forum, with no consequence. I found problem of week 4 particularly challenging to pass (mostly because of 'crazy' and unstated tolerance of the numerical corrector) iii) There is no instructor present in the Forum to answer queries or fix bugs. All this suggests a poorly professional maintenance of the course, which seems abandoned despite being new.

By Julien B

Nov 15, 2022

Intervenants de haut niveau et domaine couvert très vaste. J'ai particulièrement apprécié les présentations qui venaient enrichir la progression académique du cours (travaux de thèse ENS/IRSN/CEREMA/Université de Sienne sur les modes de déformation d'ouvrages anciens, protections sismisques, PSHA, fragilités sismiques et mises à jour bayésiennes, tremblements de Mars, instrumentation...).

By Danial J C

Dec 30, 2022

The efficiency level of lectures is awfully low. The lectures are delivered in such a way that it feels like the lecturer is reading a script. Besides that, quizzes are not structured according to the lectures delivered. If a lecture video has detail or quality of 3/10, the quiz has difficulty level of 10/10.

By Olivia K

Jun 6, 2023

Overall good!

Both video content and explanations...

By Nasrumin A

Nov 15, 2023

The course was awesome. Splendid course

By Miguel M

Mar 12, 2022

Excellent course, really comprehensive

By Panagiota P

Dec 15, 2023

Some key features are not explained adequately. You need more information to understand completely the course. Week 4 is very difficult to succeed and complete, because is not given enough information to answer the questions in mini project 4. It is not recommended, if you don't have a civil engineering background.

By juan e c m

Dec 30, 2023

miniprojects do not have a very detailed explanation

By Freddy d J

Sep 13, 2023

the course went too deep into details that are not relevant to me. As a structural engineer, I am interested in learning about the effects of earthquakes on structures. I am not interested in the mathematical/physical theory behind the origin and manifestation of an earthquake itself.

By KONSTANTINA K ( F N C )

Oct 28, 2022

SORY I WANT THE MONEY BACK

By Elnur S

Apr 7, 2023

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