Before my first engineering class at the college of engineering, I knew a decent amount about the field. I talked to a few current engineers, civil specifically, and asked them questions dealing with their career. What I gathered from these encounters was that a typical engineer makes a very profitable income. Civil engineers usually begin with the “dirty work” on the bottom ground before stepping up into an office to make sure projects are completed properly as a supervisor. Once you build your resume as a successful and efficient engineer, positions and salary follow. I also knew that civil engineers design and construct many various public works such as buildings, bridges, highways, and water ways. I also gained a significant amount of information about engineering from the internet.…
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(ASBEC) suggests that the building sector is directly responsible for around 24% of the total energy use. At present this is split fairly evenly between the residential and commercial building sectors. Reducing energy use and reducing greenhouse gas emissions are both worthwhile goals as it saves money and saves the environment. Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has been presented with increasing urgency within recent years as it is driving climate change. There are many opportunities to reduce energy and emissions within the building sector.…
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According to my research, civil engineering started between 4000 - 2000 BC in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. When humans decided to build their permanent houses, the construction of shelter began. Therefore, civil engineering considered as one of the oldest field in engineering and is the broadest of the all engineering professions. Civil engineer works to enhance the infrastructures around us like roads, sewage, bridges, dams, aqueducts, large building constructions, canals, railway lines, airports, water supply systems, harbors, transportation, tunnels, and other engineering constructions. They are the best in designing, constructing, buildings, creating, improving, maintaining, and repairing facilities and industries. Being a civil engineer you have to know the basic knowledge of the other engineering since most in the field are connected to civil engineering. Like the electrical engineering, when we have buildings without electricity or roads without stoplights, then the two engineers will be able to work with each other. In mechanical engineering, we cannot have a train without its railway or a machine without its factory. Therefore, civil engineering said to be the mother of all branches since it has a very wide field.…
Civil Engineers have to know how to design and assemble shapes to construct buildings, dams, bridges, tunnels, highway systems. Civil Engineer must understand and know how to compute such quantities as lengths, areas, volumes, centroids, moments of inertia, and curvatures of a building. Civil Engineers also help build my most favorite place in the world, they help with the designing of soccer fields. The whole field is 120 by 75 yards, the midfield has to be right in the middle of the field, they also have to measure the size of the keeper box which is 6 yards by 20 yards and the penalty box is 18 yards by 40 yards,they also have to help construct the goals that is the length of 8 yards, and last the corners of the field have to be exactly 90 degrees with a quarter circle on the inside of the field so we know where to take the corner kick…
Civil Engineers build significant structures that can last more than a century, some of these structures such as Burj Khalifa, pyramids and evil towers in France can be considered as landmarks, because of its history and its beauty of design. Civil Engineers study the four factors of building structures to determine which tools and materials they will use in order to build permanent structures. Although engineers studying the factors and take the determination, there is some disasters occurred in many places because of many reasons. Nick Spurrier said “There will always be failures or disasters as engineers and designers push the boundaries by building taller buildings, longer bridges, or by reaching further into space”. In this outline I will show some of engineering disasters that happened before and what are the reasons.…
I had the pleasure of interviewing Bob Appleton, a civil engineer at Texas A&M. The questions I asked him that taught me the most about civil engineering were “What is your daily job as a civil engineer?” and “What are the personal qualities you need to be a civil engineer? For example, motivation, etc.” Mr. Appleton said as a civil engineer, your daily job is to take data that surveyors collected in the field, either on the the ground or by aerial photographs (which he explained as being similar to images seen on Google Earth). Then you use the data to create drawings and designs for many different structures such as buildings, roads, bridges, ports, etc. Mr. Appleton said that to be a civil engineer you need to possess the qualities of integrity…
The U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in Washington announced on February 2008 the grand challenges for engineering in the 21st century. A diverse committee of experts from around the world, convened at the request of the U.S. National Science Foundation, revealed 14 challenges that, if met, would improve how we live. "Tremendous advances in quality of life have come from improved technology in areas such as farming and manufacturing," said committee member and Google co-founder Larry Page. "If we focus our effort on the important grand challenges of our age, we can hugely improve the future." The panel, some of the most accomplished engineers and scientists of their generation, was established in 2006 and met several times to discuss and develop the list of challenges. Through an interactive Web site, the effort received worldwide input from prominent engineers and scientists, as well as from the general public, over a one-year period. The panel's conclusions were reviewed by more than 50 subject-matter experts. The final choices fall into four themes that are essential for humanity to flourish -sustainability, health, reducing vulnerability, and joy of living. The committee did not attempt to include every important challenge, nor did it endorse particular approaches to meeting those selected. Rather than focusing on predictions or gee-whiz gadgets, the goal was to identify what needs to be done to help people and the planet thrive. "We chose engineering challenges that we feel can, through creativity and commitment, be realistically met, most of them early in this century," said committee chair and former U.S. Secretary of Defence William J. Perry. "Some can be, and should be, achieved as soon as possible." The committee decided not to rank the challenges. NAE is offering the public an opportunity to vote…
Girão Coelho, Ana M, & Bijlaard, Frans. (2010). High Strength Steel in Buildings and Civil Engineering Structures: Design of Connections. Advances in Structural Engineering, 413-429. doi: 10.1260/1369-4332.13.3.413…
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The Course for the Sandwich Diploma in Engineering shall extend over a period of three and half academic years, consisting of 7 semesters* and the First Year is common to all Engineering Branches. The subjects of three years full time diploma course being regrouped for academic convenience. During 4th and/or during 7th semester the students undergo industrial training for six months/ one year. Industrial training examination will be conducted after completion of every 6 months of industrial training c. Part Time (4 years)…
CE1.1 As soon as I completed my Engineering degree, I begin my career in M/s. Sobha Developers Ltd in May 2007 .I was assigned for the Construction of Sobha Beryl – Luxury Apartments at Bangalore, India. I worked as a site based senior project Quantity surveyor from May 2007 to September 2008.…