The University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD) was founded in 1592 and its School of Engineering, founded in 1841, is one of the oldest engineering schools in the English-speaking world. Civil engineering has been taught at TCD since 1842. The broad-based engineering science degree, Baccalaurea-tus in Arte Ingeniaria (Bachelor in the Art of Engineering, BAI), was established in 1872, with the present BAI degree structure introduced in 1979. It is widely recognised that the birth of modern geotechnical engineering occurred in 1925 with the publication of Erdbaumechanik by Karl Terzaghi, and the First International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering in 1936 formally established geotechnical engineering as an important discipline within civil engineering practice. However, like the other established engineering schools in Ireland, soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering did not enter the syllabus as separate subjects on the BAI degree programme at TCD until the 1950s.
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