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unusual facts about Civil Engineering


Cal Poly Pomona College of Engineering

6th in the nation for top Civil Engineering undergraduate programs, according to U.S. News & World Report's "Best Colleges 2013" list in the Master’s category.


ACEC California

As of February 2010 the membership includes nearly 1100 civil, structural, geotechnical, electrical and mechanical engineering and land surveying firms.

Alfred Mouton

As soon as he resigned his commission Mouton took up a civil engineering position as an assistant engineer for the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad.

Athos Dimoulas

He studied civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and abroad (in Belgium, England and France), and worked for the Hellenic State Railways from 1944 to 1972.

Bernard Amadei

Bernard Amadei (born July 23, 1954 in Roubaix, France) is a professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado, founder of Engineers Without Borders (USA), and former director of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities.

Binh Thuy Air Base

The base was one of several air bases in the former South Vietnam built by United States Air Force RED HORSE civil engineering squadrons.

Boileryard Clarke

Clarke moved to New Mexico in his early childhood and was raised in Indian territory, and studied civil engineering in Santa Fe at Brothers College.

Cobourg and Peterborough Railway

The bridge was the second largest civil engineering project in North America at the time, consisting of a series of trestles, 31 Burr Truss bridges, and a centre pivot draw bridge, extending for two and a half miles across the lake.

Darrell Duffie

He holds a Ph.D. (1984) in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University, a Master of Economics (1980) from the University of New England (Australia), and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Civil Engineering) (1975) from the University of New Brunswick.

Hamid-ul-Haq

He holds a Bachelor in Civil Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar.

Heinrich Seeling

Seeling upon his apprenticeship received further academic training at the college for civil engineering in Holzminden in the Duchy of Brunswick and studied at the Prussian Bauakademie in Berlin, capital of the German Empire since 1871.

Henry Homburger

A civil engineer by profession, Homburger was also responsible for the design of the bobsleigh track used for those Winter Olympics; he also did engineering work for Saranac Lake architect William G. Distin in the design of the Olympic Arena in Lake Placid.

INTERMAT Middle East

INTERMAT Middle East is an event showing the equipment and techniques used in the international building and civil engineering sectors to contractors and public authorities, all companies involved in building road, highway, railway, bridges, tunnels, ports and airports, marine and oil & gas infrastructures in the Middle East region.

José de Gregorio

De Gregorio has a degree in civil engineering and a master’s degree in engineering from the University of Chile (1984), where he received the Marcos Orrego Puelma award for the best graduate for his year.

Jørgen Lindegaard

Jørgen Lindegaard graduated with a Masters degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark in 1975 and immediately joined Philips Telekommunikation, a subsidiary of the Dutch Philips conglomerate, where he stayed until 1977.

Lamar University College of Engineering

The Civil Engineering department is one of the broadest departments in the college.

Li Zhaozhuo

He graduated from the department of civil engineering of Guangxi University, majoring in agricultural hydraulic engineering.

Louis Notari

Louis Notari was also prominent in civil engineering in the Principality, and was noted for his work on Monaco's renowned exotic garden, which annually hosts large numbers of visitors from many countries.

Machine control

In civil engineering, machine control is used to accurately position earthwork machinery based on 3D design models and GPS systems, and thus aid machine operators to e.g. control the position of a road grader's blade.

Manolis Papadrakakis

Manolis Papadrakakis (Greek: Μανόλης Παπαδρακάκης; 27 September 1948 in Heraklion, Crete), is a Greek Professor at the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, who works in Computational Mechanics.

Margot Taule

She studied in the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture in the former Universidad de Santo Domingo (now the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo) from 1940 to 1944, and was awarded her bachelor's degree in Engineering and Architecture in 1948.

Narciso Bravo, Jr.

He took up civil engineering at Aquinas University of Legazpi City and graduated in 1986 and passed the PRC licensure examination on the same year.

O'Donohue v. Canada

The application was brought by Tony O'Donohue, a civil engineer, former Toronto City Councillor and member of Citizens for a Canadian Republic, after over two decades of pursuing reform of the succession by constitutional amendment.

Ramzi Irani

He studied engineering at the Lebanese University Faculty of Engineering in Roumieh where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1992.

Reuben Wells Leonard

Following a short stint as a teacher in Brant County, he studied civil engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, student # 87.

Roland Institute of Technology

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like bridges, roads, canals, dams, and buildings.

S. B. S. Abayakoon

He is a Senior professor of Civil Engineering, at Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya.

Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale

The scale was developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Bob (Robert) Simpson, who at the time was director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC).

Shariffpura

Engineer Fazal ur Rahman Shariff did his degree in civil engineering from Liverpool, England in 1912 and returned to his home in Amritsar.

Sofoklis Savva

Sofoklis Savva (Gerakos) (Greek: Σοφοκλής Σάββα Γέρακος) is an Architect and Civil Engineering Manager and former mayor of Lympia, a large village in Cyprus, located in the Nicosia District.

Structural analysis

Important examples related to Civil Engineering include buildings, bridges, and towers; and in other branches of engineering, ship and aircraft frames, tanks, pressure vessels, mechanical systems, and electrical supporting structures are important.

The Kalahari Typing School for Men

Mr. Molefelo is a prosperous civil engineer in Lobatse who is also the proprietor of a hotel and landowner with an ostrich ranch.

Tony MacGibbon

MacGibbon retired from Test cricket after this tour, and stayed in the UK to study civil engineering at Durham University.

University of Montenegro Faculty of Civil Engineering

Due to the growing need for educated civil engineering workers in Montenegro, especially after the 1979 earthquake that struck the country, the Faculty of Civil Engineering was officially established on July 2nd, 1980, as part of the "Veljko Vlahović" University (today's University of Montenegro).

Will Minson

Off the field, Minson is known for his intelligence and multi-faceted abilities - he plays saxophonist, speaks fluent German and is currently studying civil engineering at the University of Melbourne.


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Amber Renae

Renae earned a Bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of Queensland.

Australia–South Africa relations

Australian exports to South Africa were A$2.53 billion (mainly medicaments, meat and civil engineering equipment), and Australian imports from South Africa were A$1.35 billion, notably passenger motor vehicles (mainly BMW 3 Series vehicles) worth A$663 million, as well as pig iron and motor vehicle parts.

Avraham Shekhterman

He studied civil engineering at Ghent University, where he chaired the Jewish Students Organisation, as well as working as a Betar instructor in Antwerp.

Belgrade University Library

It is located on King Alexander Boulevard, close to the Faculty of Law and adjacent to the Faculties of Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Architecture.

Bob Glenn

In 1919, after graduating from Michigan, Glenn was hired as an instructor in civil engineering at the Engineering School of the Oregon State Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) in Corvallis, Oregon.

Conseil général des ponts et chaussées

The Conseil général des Ponts et Chaussées (CGPC "Civil Engineering General Council") is one of the oldest institutions in France and the direct heir of the assembly of inspectors general of bridges and roads, which met regularly from 1747 under Daniel-Charles Trudaine.

Costain Group

Following the flotation, Costain moved into civil engineering and worked first on the Trans-Iranian Railway and then at Abadan, Iran for BP.

Craigellachie Bridge

The bridge has been given Category A listed status by Historic Scotland and has been designated a civil engineering landmark by the Institution of Civil Engineers and American Society of Civil Engineers.

Dimitri Gvindadze

Born in Tbilisi, then-Soviet Georgia, Gvindadze graduated from the Tbilisi State Technical University with a degree in civil engineering in 1995.

Earley

The building was partly taken over by the civil engineering consultancy Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners in June 1974, when it relocated from London.

Edwin B. Crocker

He earned a degree in civil engineering at Rensselaer Institute in Troy, New York.

Emmanuel Essien

Essien studied Electrical/Electronics Engineering at the College of Technology, Calabar (1975 - 1977), the University of Ife (1977 - 1978) and Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, graduating in 1982 with a degree in Civil Engineering.

FORM

First-order reliability method, a method to evaluate the reliability of a civil engineering structure

Francis Trevithick

Born in 1812, he began the study of civil engineering around 1832, and by 1840 was employed by the Grand Junction Railway (GJR).

Fredrik Thoresen

He was born in Bestum, and took his civil engineering education in chemistry at the University of Birmingham, whence he graduated in 1953.

Freeway Traffic Management System

Research on new algorithm developments and evaluations is performed at the ITS Centre and Testbed (ICAT), at the Civil Engineering department of the University of Toronto.

George Arthur Forrest

George Arthur Forrest (born 1940) is a Belgian entrepreneur, owner of the Forrest Group (Groupe Forrest), a group of companies founded in the Belgian Congo in 1922 and active in civil engineering and mining.

Grissell and Peto

Grissell and Peto was a civil engineering partnership between Thomas Grissell and his cousin Morton Peto that built many major buildings and monuments in London and became one of the major contractors in the building of the rapidly expanding railways of the time.

Gustavo Rojas Pinilla

He became dissatisfied with the army and in 1924 he requested permission to retire from active service so that he could study civil engineering in Tri-State Normal College, in the United States where he obtained the title of civil engineer in 1927.

Henri Maclaine Pont

Born in Batavia in 1884, Henri Maclaine Pont studied civil engineering in Delft.

Henry Marc Brunel

Brunel attended King's College London from 1859–1861, and afterward attained experience in civil engineering through serving out various apprenticeships.

HurriQuake

For further testing, Sutt asked for the assistance of Scott Schiff, the coordinator of the graduate program in civil engineering and engineering mechanics at Clemson University.

IRSE

Indian Railway Service of Engineers, a cadre of the Government of India responsible for managing the Civil Engineering Organisation of the Indian Railways.

James Henry Deese

He attended Georgia Institute of Technology and the U.S. Naval Academy from 1931 to 1935, where he studied Electrical and Civil Engineering.

Jean-Sébastien Fecteau

In 2007, Fecteau said he planned to study civil engineering at the École Polytechnique de Montréal.

John Brinkerhoff

Brinkerhoff obtained his BS in Engineering from the United States Military Academy and received his MS in Civil Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

John Henry Alexander

Alexander also was professor of civil engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and professor of physics at the University of Maryland.

John Lorenzo Young

He was educated at the Communal College of Boulogne, under Professor Opel at Wiesbaden, in 1842 at the Civil Engineering College in Putney, and at King's College London from 1843 to 1845, where John Howard Clark (later Sir John Howard Clark, editor of The Register and who conducted its Geoffry Crabthorn column) was a fellow student.

Leffert L. Buck

Before earning his civil engineering degree from RPI, Buck fought for the Union Army in the American Civil War under General Slocum, participating in the battles at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Peachtree Creek, Resaca and

Leslie Jaeger

He was an Honorary Professor of Civil Engineering at Tongji University, Shanghai and Honorary President of the Usman Institute of Technology, Karachi.

Manoir Industries

Manoir Industries is a global company in metal processing for the high tech casting and forging components in petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, civil engineering, energy, defense, and construction markets.

Meher Ramesh

After earning a diploma in civil engineering,he went to Botswana to work for Marina Amusements, which manufactures snooker tables and other gaming.

Muhammad Hasan Imam

Muhammad Hasan Imam (born 1946) is a Professor at the Civil Engineering Department of the Umm al-Qura University, and known for his many contributions to the fields of Mechanical and Civil Engineering.

Najeeb Haroon

Haroon had previously served as a full-time employee in Pakistan International Airlines as a sales assistant while studying at NED University of Engineering and Technology where he pursed a BS degree in civil engineering.

Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center

NFESC, the Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (Formerly NCEL, Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory) provides engineering services, technology testing, specialized facilities, and expertise in these facilities.

Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory

The Nathan M. Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, or Newmark Lab, located at 205 N. Mathews Avenue in Urbana, Illinois on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, houses the university's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Peto, Brassey and Betts

Peto, Brassey and Betts was a civil engineering partnership between Samuel Morton Peto, Thomas Brassey and Edward Betts.

Pir Syed Muhammad Binyamin Rizvi

Pir Syed Muhammad Binyamin Rizvi received a degree in civil engineering from the G.C.T Government College of Technology, Lahore in 1980.

Priyadarshini College of Engineering

Priyadarshini College of Engineering is one of the 15 Engineering colleges in Nagpur that offers degree programmes in 6 Engineering Disciplines of Aeronautical Engineering ,Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Computer Technology & Information Technology and Civil Engineering.

Sawsan Gabra Ayoub Khalil

She studied civil engineering at the University of Alexandria, Egypt, and after her marriage with Cornelis Hulsman in Alexandria in 1988 she went to the Netherlands and studied at the University of Delft.

Semih Tezcan

He received the Gzowski Gold Medal, Best Civil Engineering Paper Award from Engineering Institute of Canada.

Shanghai–Nanjing Railway

The project was undertaken by the civil engineering partnership Sir John Wolfe-Barry and Lt Col Arthur John Barry at the end of the nineteenth century.

Steve Precourt

Precourt attended the University of Florida, where he graduated with a degree in civil engineering in 1983.

The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications

Despite his heavy teaching load and administrative duties at Virginia Tech, where he had just become head of a large civil-engineering program, Morris made steady progress on his section of the book, eventually contributing more than twice as much material as Whitcomb.

University of Deusto

Victor Pradera Larumbe, graduate in civil engineering, Carlist politician

Walchand group

Hindustan Construction Company - founded in 1926, civil & engineering construction giant now headed by Ajit Gulabchand faction.

Walter O. Hoffecker

He graduated from Smyrna Seminary in 1872, and in September 1873, he entered Lehigh University at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he studied civil engineering.

William Selim Hanna

He then traveled to England and joined the University of Birmingham, where he earned a bachelor's degree with first place honors in Civil Engineering in 1923.

Zdeněk Bažant

Zdeněk Pavel Bažant (born December 10, 1937) is McCormick School Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University's Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.

ZOOMQ3D

ZOOMQ3D and ZOOPT have been developed through a tri-partite collaboration between the School of Civil Engineering of the University of Birmingham, UK, the British Geological Survey and the Environment Agency of England and Wales.