Civil engineering

Tennessee Valley Authority civil engineers monitoring hydraulics of a Tellico Dam scale model.

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways.[1][2]

Civil engineering is traditionally broken into a number of sub-disciplines. It is considered the second-oldest engineering discipline after military engineering,[3] and it is defined to distinguish non-military engineering from military engineering.[4] Civil engineering can take place in the public sector from municipal public works departments through to federal government agencies, and in the private sector from locally based firms to global Fortune 500 companies.[5]

  1. ^ "History and Heritage of Civil Engineering". ASCE. Archived from the original on 16 February 2007. Retrieved 8 August 2007.
  2. ^ "What is Civil Engineering". Institution of Civil Engineers. 14 January 2022. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  3. ^ "What is Civil Engineering?". The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. Archived from the original on 12 August 2007. Retrieved 8 August 2007.
  4. ^ "Civil engineering". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 9 August 2007.
  5. ^ "Working in the Public Sector Versus Private Sector for Civil Engineering Professionals". The Civil Engineering Podcast. Engineering Management Institute. 5 June 2019.

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