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Practical courses for engineers and researchers.
Free, self-paced courses in research skills and ground engineering, built from real practice. Start with one of these, or browse them all.
Plot Figures Your Reader Can Trust
Assess whether a graph communicates its evidence clearly, and fix what doesn’t.
6 short lessons · 20 to 30 minutesView course →Soil Mechanics Fundamentals
From how soils form to settlement and slope stability, with worked examples in every lesson.
8 lessons ready now · more being added · no sign-upView course →Desk Study: from zero to your first report
Research a site before anyone digs, step by step, and write your first desk study.
8 lessons · about 4 hoursView course →New · A branch of soil mechanics
Unsaturated Soil Mechanics
Most construction happens above the water table, in soil that holds both air and water. Learn when suction helps you, how long you can rely on it, and when losing it is the hazard.
Start the pathway →- 1Recognising unsaturated soil problems: open now
- 2–4Soil-water behaviour, engineering decisions, investigation: coming next
- Freewith sign-up · optional expert marking
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For students, graduates and early-career engineers and researchers who are ready to work steadily towards one clear goal.
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Lessons from the Ground
What the ground can teach us about life
Short essays that use soil and engineering to think about pressure, resilience and change.
The Weathered Mind
What soil weathering can teach us about change and becoming.
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Pre-consolidation Pressure
What soil teaches us about resilience under pressure.
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When Soil Cracks
A lesson in warning signs, attention and hidden stress.
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Sand or Clay? Which Are You?
What two very different soils can teach us about ourselves.
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About me
Hello, I’m Damilola
I am a geotechnical engineer and educator. I hold a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, specialising in the behaviour of unsaturated and tropical soils. I have taught geotechnical engineering at two UK universities, and in consultancy I have worked on projects in Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and the UK.
Everything here is built from that mix of teaching and practice, so you get clear, practical help from someone who has done the work.