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GROUP 3
SUSTAINABILITY AND THE FUTURE
CIVIL ENGINEERING,
 GLOBALIZATION AND
SUSTAINABILITY
ENGINEERING
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Engineers will need to deal with ever-

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increasing globalization and find ways to

prosper within an integrated international
environment, and meeting challenges which
cross cultural, language, legal, and political
boundaries, while respecting critical cultural
constraints and differences.
 Sustainable Development is the challenge of
meeting human needs for natural resources,
industrial products, energy, food, transportation,
shelter, and effective waste management while
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conserving and protecting environmental quality

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and the natural resource base essential for future

development.
ETHICAL CODE: Engineers shall hold paramount the safety,
health and welfare of the public and shall strive to comply with
the principles of sustainable development in the performance of
their professional duties
 Entrusted by society to create a sustainable world and enhance the
global quality of life, civil engineers serve competently,
collaboratively, and ethically as master:
Planners, designers, constructors, Managers of risk and uncertainty
and operators of society’s caused by natural events,
economic and social engine, the accidents, and other threats
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Stewards of the natural

decisions shaping public
environment and its resources
environmental and
infrastructure policy
Innovators and integrators of
ideas and technology across the
public, private, and academic
sectors

This vision is broadly assertive of aspirations to sustainable engineering, stewardship

of the natural resources and the environment, and the fostering and integration of
innovation in service of these ends – all in the basic overriding context of service to
people through civilian engineering.
 The 21st Century Civil Engineer must demonstrate
an ability to analyze the sustainability of engineered
systems, and of the natural resource base on which they

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There are social, economic, and physical aspects of

sustainability. The latter includes both natural resources and the
environment. Technology affects all three and a broad,
integrative understanding is necessary in support of the public
interest. Beyond that, special competence is required in the
scientific understanding of natural resources and the environment,
 The 21st century civil engineer must address three distinct
issues, the globalization process, global issues, and global
professionalism. Some examples include:

GLOBALIZATION PROCESS:

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Globalization’s The dependency Cost and

effect on of economic
wealth on the
Governmental
infrastructure issues
variety, reliability
revitalization and service of
physical
infrastructure
systems
 The 21st century civil engineer must address three distinct
issues, the globalization process, global issues, and global
professionalism. Some examples include:

GLOBALIZATION ISSUES:

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The international scale

of extreme and long-
Developing
term environmental Meeting a world acceptable
events, such as disasters, health standard international
global climate change, standards for
and their impacts on the both large and
natural, built, and social developing
environments countries
 The 21st century civil engineer must address three distinct
issues, the globalization process, global issues, and global
professionalism. Some examples include:

GLOBALIZATION PROFESSIONALISM:

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Individuals,
Barriers to
businesses,
The challenge professional
and the
of practicing licensure,
profession
ethically in a contractor
becoming
global licenses/permi
effective in
environment ts, and foreign
multicultural
corporations.
practice
 Individuals are expected to be able to

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analyze the impact of globalization process,

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through industry interaction, professional society

interaction, co-ops, international service
opportunities, and related coursework.
 Sustainability makes claims on Civil Engineering in three
ways relative to the human habitat:

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Natural Resources The constructed The social

that sustain human environment environment. Inability
activity, and the to understand and
Environment which deal creatively with
sustains all life the latter, leads to
failure
 Hence, a “Sustainability” outcome makes claims
on the Humanities and the Social Science bases. Similar

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teams, and indeed to serve as leaders of such teams:

will have to apply universal principles to very locally-
defined and -constrained problems.
 Globalization outcome implies claims on the
educational base. The two special entries in the
foundational category are not simply unconstrained

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discussed here (and others as well). This is implied in

the professional commitments described at the start of
this paper.
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