WABI covers geotechnical boring demonstration
WABI (Channel 5) reported on a demonstration of geotechnical drilling hosted by S.W. Cole Explorations LLC on the University of Maine campus. S.W. Cole Explorations LLC is a test boring subsidiary of S.W. Cole Engineering Inc., which provides geotechnical engineering, geoenvironmental consulting, and materials testing services. Civil, construction and water resource engineers, as well as geologists use the drilling process to collect soil samples and analyze water, according to the report. Students in the Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction Engineering Technology programs were in attendance. “We’re giving the students values. We’re telling them to analyze these bits of soil that come from some nebulous area, but now they get a chance to see how the soil is pulled up out of the ground,” said Melissa Landon, an associate professor of civil engineering at UMaine. “I had only seen this in diagrams and stuff from textbooks, so it was really cool to get to see the actual process happen,” said UMaine student Kendra Ramsell. Students will test the samples next semester, WABI reported.