 Hi, this is Professor Dien Singh and I offer this course CE 488 for third year and fourth year civil engineering students, Environmental Geotechnics. This course will be very useful for the students who have out of the box thinking and who have innovative ideas. It is not a very copy book type of a course, basically the course develops along with the proceedings and the type of questions students ask during the class. I used to be a civil engineer and then later on I did my higher studies in geotechnical engineering and subsequently I realized that there is a need to create a new concept where the conventional civil engineering practices limitations can be overcome by the concepts which are normally used in environmental engineering and this is how this course environmental geotechnics got evolved. You must be realizing that there are so many issues the contemporary society is facing in terms of waste disposal, industrial byproducts, different type of issues which the industries are forcing us to think upon. Construction materials are scarce, there is a need to identify new materials for construction and creation of land, reclamation soils are depleting their nutritional values and hence there is a need to overcome all these issues or situations and this is what my endeavour would be. I did my undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD from IIT Kanpur and I joined IIT Bombay in 1994 and presently I am enjoying my activities related to environmental geotechnology or environmental geotechnics. My laboratory is situated on the fourth floor of VMCC and those of you who wish to observe my activities you are most welcome. Thank you.