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Previous studies have shown that secondary school students may have misconceptions about geological scientific information. By the end of secondary education these misconceptions may remain unresolved. As a result, students enter university studies and still hold them. Students of engineering, as for example civil engineering, are no exception. The aim of this study was to investigate and analyse misconceptions of this specific target group. A closed questionnaire was designed and given to 102 University students ...

A new mineralogical application for mobile phones and tablets was created named MINS (Mineral Identifier for Non-Specialists). Android Studio was employed in order to implement it in Java for Android devices and is compatible with versions starting from 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). MINS is an application for macroscopic identification of the most common minerals (about 99%) that exist on the upper crust of the earth. The user has the choice of identifying a mineral or to see a list with the most common minerals. In t...

A new mineralogical mobile phone application was created named Mineralmicr. Mineralmicr is an application that includes for the first time in a mobile phone application or computer program or in general on internet a database of 60 common minerals under petrographic microscope. In these videos the optical properties of each mineral are explained in detail using English subtitles. Mineralmicr is an application in which the user can identify the minerals under petrographic microscope by using nine specific filters t...