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    Civil engineering is one of the oldest branches of engineering, dating back to when humans first started building permanent structures. It involves designing and constructing public infrastructure projects like dams, bridges, buildings, roads, water systems, and transportation systems. Some famous civil engineering projects from history include the Brooklyn Bridge, Hoover Dam, Panama Canal, and Golden Gate Bridge. Civil engineering shapes the built environment and ensures basic services like water, transportation, and structures.

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    Civil engineering is one of the oldest branches of engineering, dating back to when humans first started building permanent structures. It involves designing and constructing public infrastructure projects like dams, bridges, buildings, roads, water systems, and transportation systems. Some famous civil engineering projects from history include the Brooklyn Bridge, Hoover Dam, Panama Canal, and Golden Gate Bridge. Civil engineering shapes the built environment and ensures basic services like water, transportation, and structures.

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    Lecture-4

    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.
    Civil engineering is the design and
    construction of public works, such
    as dams, bridges and other large
    infrastructure projects. It is one of
    the oldest branches
    of engineering, dating back to
    when people first started living in
    permanent settlements and began
    shaping their environments to suit
    their needs.
    Great Civil Engineers
    Today, the public is more likely to remember the
    names of great civil engineering projects than the
    names of the engineers who designed and built
    them. These include the Brooklyn
    Bridge (designed by John August Roebling and
    son Washington Roebling), the Hoover
    Dam (John L. Savage), the Panama Canal (John
    Frank Stevens) and the Golden Gate
    Bridge (Joseph Strauss and Charles Ellis). One
    notable exception is the Eiffel Tower, named after
    Gustave Eiffel, the French civil engineer whose
    company built it.
    Eiffel Tower

    Brooklyn Bridge

    Hoover Dam

    Golden Gate Bridge

    Panama Canal
    Civil Engineering

    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.
    Every time you open a water faucet,
    you expect water to come out, without
    thinking that civil engineers made it
    possible.
    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.

    http://civil.columbia.edu/what-civil-engineering

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