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What Is Civil Engineering

Civil engineering is one of the oldest engineering disciplines and deals with the built environment. It encompasses infrastructure like buildings, bridges, roads, railroads, water and sewage systems. Civil engineers are responsible for ensuring water reaches homes and is disposed of safely. The field has evolved from civil engineering to include environmental engineering. Civil engineers work in many industries beyond construction, including aerospace, automotive, and shipbuilding. They oversee the design and construction of facilities. Civil engineering allows seeing the tangible results of one's work in completed infrastructure projects.

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What Is Civil Engineering

Civil engineering is one of the oldest engineering disciplines and deals with the built environment. It encompasses infrastructure like buildings, bridges, roads, railroads, water and sewage systems. Civil engineers are responsible for ensuring water reaches homes and is disposed of safely. The field has evolved from civil engineering to include environmental engineering. Civil engineers work in many industries beyond construction, including aerospace, automotive, and shipbuilding. They oversee the design and construction of facilities. Civil engineering allows seeing the tangible results of one's work in completed infrastructure projects.

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What Is Civil

Engineering?
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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 world’s 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
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