Purdue University civil engineering professor Monica Prezzi, at left, works with doctoral student Fei Han to operate a new test chamber that allows engineers to simulate precisely what happens to soil ...

To grow good plants, you need good soil. The only way to tell what your soil really needs is to take a soil test. Applying too much fertilizer could be detrimental to your plants. You could waste ...

A discussion about the importance of instrumentation in geotechnical engineering would be incomplete without referring to ...