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What Is Civil Engineering

Civil engineering is one of the oldest engineering disciplines, dating back to when humans first built shelters and bridges. Civil engineers design much of the built environment, including buildings, bridges, roads, railroads, airports, and water and sewage systems. They work in various industries beyond construction, helping to design aircraft, cars, ships and more. Civil engineering is an exciting field as engineers can see the real-world impacts of their projects, such as new infrastructure like bridges, buildings, subways and dams.

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What Is Civil Engineering

Civil engineering is one of the oldest engineering disciplines, dating back to when humans first built shelters and bridges. Civil engineers design much of the built environment, including buildings, bridges, roads, railroads, airports, and water and sewage systems. They work in various industries beyond construction, helping to design aircraft, cars, ships and more. Civil engineering is an exciting field as engineers can see the real-world impacts of their projects, such as new infrastructure like bridges, buildings, subways and dams.

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What is Civil Engineering?

Civil engineering is arguably the oldest engineering discipline. It deals with the built environment and
can be dated to the first time someone placed a roof over his or her head or laid a tree trunk across a
river to make it easier to get across.
The built environment encompasses much of what defines modern civilization. Buildings and bridges
are often the first constructions that come to mind, as they are the most conspicuous creations of
structural engineering, one of civil engineering's major sub -disciplines. Roads, railroads, subway
systems, and airports are designed by transportation engineers, another category of civil engineering.
And then there are the less visible creations of civil engineers. Every time you open a water faucet,
you expect water to come out, without thinking that civil engineers made it possible. New York City
has one of the worlds most impressive water supply systems, receiving billions of gallons of high quality water from the Catskills over one hundred miles away. Similarly, not many people seem to
worry about what happens to the water after it has served its purposes. The old civil engineering
discipline of sanitary engineering has evolved into modern environmental engineering of such
significance that most academic departments have changed their names to civil and environmental
engineering.
These few examples illustrate that civil engineers do a lot more than design buildings and bridges.
They can be found in the aerospace industry, designing jetliners and space stations; in the automotive
industry, perfecting the load-carrying capacity of a chassis and improving the crashworthiness of
bumpers and doors; and they can be found in the ship building industry, the power industry, and many
other industries wherever constructed facilities are involved. And they plan and oversee the
construction of these facilities as construction managers.
Civil engineering is an exciting profession because at the end of the day you can see the results of
your work, whether this is a completed bridge, a high-rise building, a subway station, or a hydroelectric
dam.
Please look at the Web pages of our individual faculty members to learn more about their special
interests as examples of what civil engineering and engineering mechanics is and can be about.

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