<page_title> List of engineering branches </page_title> <section_title> Civil engineering </section_title> <table> <cell> Geotechnical engineering <col_header> Subdiscipline </col_header> </cell> <cell> Concerned with the behavior of earth materials at the site of a civil engineering project. <col_header> Scope </col_header> </cell> <cell> Mining engineering, the exploration, extraction and processing of raw materials from the Earth Foundation (engineering), the engineering of below-ground foundations that support superstructures <col_header> Major specialties </col_header> </cell> </table>
Geotechnical engineering is a part of civil engineering used in mining applications and other engineering disciplines that are concerned with construction occurring within the ground.