Civil Engineering -
A civil engineer is
a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning,
designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as
well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.
Civil engineering is one of the oldest
engineering disciplines because it deals with constructed environment[1] including
planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building
structures, and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors,
channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and
sewage systems
Civil engineering is the broadest of the
engineering fields. Civil engineering focuses on the infrastructure of the
world which include Water works, Sewers, Dams, Power Plants, Transmission
Towers/Lines, Railroads, Highways, Bridges, Tunnels, Irrigation Canals, River
Navigation, Shipping Canals, Traffic Control, Mass Transit, Airport Runways,
Terminals, Industrial Plant Buildings, Skyscrapers, etc. Among
the important subdivisions of the field are construction
engineering, irrigation engineering, transportation engineering, soils and
foundation engineering, geodetic engineering, hydraulic engineering, and
coastal and ocean engineering.
Civil
engineers build
the world’s infrastructure. In doing so, they quietly shape the history of
nations around the world. Most people can not imagine life without the many
contributions of civil engineers to the public’s health, safety and standard of
living. Only by exploring civil engineering’s influence in shaping the world we
know today, can we creatively envision the progress of our tomorrows.
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