In Peru, the university formation in geotechnical engineering has a starting point in the contribution of professor Emilio Le Roux Catter in 1946 in the old School of Engineers, today National University of Engineering. It is then that the Soil Mechanics course was created within the civil engineering teaching curriculum.
In the decade of the 60th, thanks to the visit of renowed experts in Soil Mechanics, the specialty of Soil Mechanics receives dynamism, giving courses on: Soil Mechanics applied to Transport Roads and Soil Mechanics applied to Earth Dams. The Soil Mechanics and Pavement Laboratories were implemented in the National University of Engineering and in the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
In 1971, the UNI created the Graduate School and later the Master of Science Civil Engineering with a major in Geotechnics, giving a great boost to the teaching and application of Geotechnics in Peru, which came to fruition during the 1980s and in the mid-1980s, with the work of the Peruvian Committee on Soil Mechanics, Foundations and Rocks Mechanics and with the implementation of the first Peruvian Technical Standard for Soil Mechanics E-050.
Since 2011, techniques for measuring stress, deformation and water flow have been improved both in-situ and in laboratory. On the other hand, the continuous presence of seismic movements has motivated that twenty universities from the country led by the National University of Engineering, consider that the topics of dynamic characterization of soils should be integrated into the training of Civil Engineering students for which have installed a network of accelerographic stations, which favor the research carried out by undergraduate and graduate students and teachers in the area of Geotechnical Seismic Engineering