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    This document discusses the future of civil engineering in a transforming world. It notes several trends that will impact civil engineering, including population growth, resource constraints, aging infrastructure, and increasing transportation demands. The future of civil engineering will require preparing engineers for an interdependent world facing climate change, technological advances, and sociopolitical shifts. Civil engineers may need to take on new roles as entrepreneurs, systems engineers, and risk managers to address complex challenges around sustainability and resilience in this changing environment.

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    The Future of Civil Engineering in

    a Transforming World
    Evan Vlachos
    Sociology & Civil Engineering
    Colorado State University
    Fort Collins, CO USA 80523
    email: [email protected]
    The Future of Civil Engineering
    in a Transforming World
    1.0 THE TRANSFORMING ENVIRONMENT
    2.0 TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS
    3.0 PREPARING THE CIVIL ENGINEERS OF THE 21
    ST
    CENTURY
    4.0 SHIFTING PARADIGMS IN THEORY & PRACTICE
    5.0 SPECULATING ABOUT THE FUTURE
    THE GATHERING STORM
    FOUR BILLION MORE PEOPLE ON THE WAY
    THE WELLS ARE RUNNING DRY
    INFRASTRUCTURE FAILS TO KEEP UP
    WASTE JUST KEEPS PILLING UP
    TRANSPORTATION DEMANDS TAKE OFF
    Premises of Foresight
    1. Trend is not destiny
    Premises of Foresight
    1. Trend is not destiny
    2. Those who live by the crystal ball are bound
    to eat groundglass
    Premises of Foresight
    1. Trend is not destiny
    2. Those who live by the crystal ball are bound
    to eat groundglass
    3. It is better to be approximately right
    rather than precisely wrong
    INTERLOCKING CRISES
    CLIMATIC SHIFTS
    MEGARUPTURES
    METABOLISM
    SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT
    TRANSBOUNDARY DEPENDENCIES
    FAST PACE OF TECHNOLOGICAL
    DEVELOPMENT
    THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A POST-INDUSTRIAL
    SOCIETY
    1. From goods to services
    tertiary economy
    2. Emphasis on knowledge
    education, expertise
    3. More social planning
    new planning techniques
    4. Growing Technocracy
    skills and education
    THE TELEMATIC SOCIETY
    DIMINUTION
    DIGITALIZATION
    COMPUTERIZATION
    INSTANTIZATION
    GLOBALIZATION
    [OF COMMUNICATION]
    CUSTOMIZATION
    AUTOMATION
    ROBOTIZATION
    COMPLEXIFICATION
    INTERDEPENDENCE
    VULNERABILITY
    RISK MANAGEMENT
    TYPES OF ENGINEERS
    PAST
    FUTURE
    PRACTICING
    ENTEPRENEURIAL
    SYSTEMS ENGINEER
    RISK MANAGER
    CHALLENGES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
    A. WHO WOULD BE RECRUITED AND MAINTAINED?
    B. WHAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT?
    C. WHAT WILL BE THE ENGINEERING PRACTICE?
    Influence Diagram
    Summary of Engineering Role Changes
    Current and Past Emerging
    Archetypal Worldviews
    Worldview Antecedents Philosophy Motto
    Conventional Worlds
    Market
    Policy Reform
    Barbarization
    Breakdown
    Fortress World
    Great Transitions
    Eco-communalism
    New Sustainability
    Paradigm
    Muddling Through
    Smith
    Keynes
    Bundtland
    Malthus
    Hobbes
    Morris & social
    utopians
    Ghandhi
    Your brother-in-
    law (probably
    Market optimism;
    hidden & enlightened
    hand
    Policy stewardship
    Existential gloom;
    population/resource
    catastrophe
    Social Chaos;
    nasty nature of man
    Pastoral romance;
    human goodness;
    evil of industrialism
    Sustainability as
    progressive global
    social evolution
    No grand philosophies
    Dont worry, be happy
    Growth, environment,
    equity through better
    technology & management
    The end is coming
    Order through strong
    leaders
    Small is beautiful
    Human solidarity, new
    values, the art of living
    Que sera, sera
    Mill
    Source: Great Transition [SEI, 2002]
    The Politics of Transformation
    Building Data / DSS
    Expanding Knowledge / Judgement
    Creating Institutions / Capacity Building
    Mobilize Resources
    Articulate Values
    The 3 Rs
    Rethinking new paradigms
    Reorganizing organizational mobilization
    Retooling new skills and resources

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