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I'd like to take this opportunity to share with you a little background on the civil engineering field as it pertains our everyday life. Here is the link to Wikipedia's article regarding civil engineering. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_engineering As a professor once put it to me, fundamentally speaking civil engineering is something you can see and touch as opposed to the fields of mechanical or electrical engineering for example. Civil engineering actually covers a broad area of topics and is divided up into sub-fields which include structural, transportation, environmental, geotechnical and water resources engineering.
Structural engineering is my favorite sub-field and will be my focus as I get closer to finishing school. Structural engineering involves the evaluation and design of loads, size, stress, deformation, etc. of structures and the building materials they are composed of. Transportation engineering involves things such as design of highways, airport runways/terminals, railways and traffic analysis. Geotechnical engineering has a strong emphasis on geology and studying the earth. More specifically studying the soil properties and mechanics of a certain location. Environmental and water resources engineering are somewhat interchangeable with each other as they involve similar. Environmental engineering is vital to everyday life for all humans. Clean water treatment, wastewater treatment, solid waste sites, hazardous waste recycling and site remediation are all products of environmental engineering. Finally water resources engineering deals with design of water distribution networks in cities and research of water demands by the general public.
One thing that any civil engineer has in common with one another is a rich knowledge of mathematics and basic mechanics. Civil engineers also have fundamental duties to enhancing the quality of life of the public as well as preserving the public's welfare and safety. This is manifested in the code of ethics that civil engineers must follow. All engineers have a code of ethics that they must abide by in their line of work and civil engineers are no different. This code is put in place to ensure that work is done with integrity and the public's safety in mind along with making good moral decisions a benchmark.
I'd like to take this opportunity to share with you a little background on the civil engineering field as it pertains our everyday life. Here is the link to Wikipedia's article regarding civil engineering. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_engineering As a professor once put it to me, fundamentally speaking civil engineering is something you can see and touch as opposed to the fields of mechanical or electrical engineering for example. Civil engineering actually covers a broad area of topics and is divided up into sub-fields which include structural, transportation, environmental, geotechnical and water resources engineering.
Structural engineering is my favorite sub-field and will be my focus as I get closer to finishing school. Structural engineering involves the evaluation and design of loads, size, stress, deformation, etc. of structures and the building materials they are composed of. Transportation engineering involves things such as design of highways, airport runways/terminals, railways and traffic analysis. Geotechnical engineering has a strong emphasis on geology and studying the earth. More specifically studying the soil properties and mechanics of a certain location. Environmental and water resources engineering are somewhat interchangeable with each other as they involve similar. Environmental engineering is vital to everyday life for all humans. Clean water treatment, wastewater treatment, solid waste sites, hazardous waste recycling and site remediation are all products of environmental engineering. Finally water resources engineering deals with design of water distribution networks in cities and research of water demands by the general public.
One thing that any civil engineer has in common with one another is a rich knowledge of mathematics and basic mechanics. Civil engineers also have fundamental duties to enhancing the quality of life of the public as well as preserving the public's welfare and safety. This is manifested in the code of ethics that civil engineers must follow. All engineers have a code of ethics that they must abide by in their line of work and civil engineers are no different. This code is put in place to ensure that work is done with integrity and the public's safety in mind along with making good moral decisions a benchmark.
The link about civil engineering can help a person understand what civil engineering is all about, so I like that you have that in there. I also like how you broke civil engineering into catagories and explained each of them along with providing examples.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with your last paragraph. I am also a civil engineer major with an emphasis on structural engineering and it is absolutely any engineers duty to make sure whatever structure is being designed is safe for public use. As for the rest of it I also think you did a good job explaining the rest of the fields of civil engineering, but it did seem kind of bland. So maybe next time add a few pictures throughout it.
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