An Introduction to Civil Engineering

Civil engineerings progress throughout time introduces new contributions to peoples daily lives. Take the 20th century, for example the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a non-government, non-profit 

Among the twenty, clearly Number 4 and Number 11 are the contributions of civil engineering. Even Number 1, Electrification, the generation and transportation of electrical power, cannot be achieved without the civil engineering contribution to the designing and constructing power transmission towers and lines. Same is true for Number 2 and Number 3. 

Human Needs Specific Nature of Needs Civil Engineering Technical Areas 

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Abel, J. P., and Alex Jones. An Introduction to Civil Engineering, John Wiley Sons, Inc., New York, 1999. 

Feldman, D., Polymeric Building Materials , Elsevier, New York, 1989. The book is an introduction to polymer applications in the building industry for the civil and chemical engineering fields. 

Singh, V. R, S. K. Jain, and A. Tyagi. 2007. Risk and Reliability Analysis A Handbook for Civil and Environmental Engineers. Reston, VA ASCE Press. This is an excellent introduction to risk and uncertainty for environmental engineers. The book covers the fundamentals of decision making, probability, risk, and reliability analysis. This title was named an Outstanding Title in the May 2008 CHOICE review. (Choice Reviews online, American Library Association http //www.cro2.org (accessed March 23,2011). 

Within civil engineering education, an attempt to surmount these problems was the introduction of the specialist discipline Materials Science , which aims at describing the macroscopic properties of materials based on their atomic and molecular structures. An early exponent of this specialist discipline was van Vlack. His Elements of Materials Science was introduced into the civil engineering education at the Technical University of Denmark in the late 1960 es. 

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