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Anisul Hoque

Hoque graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), trained as a civil engineer.

Arthur Plunkett

Arthur Lancelot Bonner (Lance) Plunkett was a civil engineer involved in the design of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Ashfork-Bainbridge Steel Dam

It is named for the town of Ash Fork, and for Francis H. Bainbridge, a civil engineer and graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), who was an engineer for ATSF.

Bertram Tracy Clayton

He resigned in 1888, intending to work as a civil engineer, but went on to serve with Troop C, New York Volunteer Cavalry (Brooklyn's Own) during the Spanish-American War in Puerto Rico, winning distinction.

Clifford Thomason Beckett

Prior to his military career Beckett’s father William had been a senior Civil Engineer, working on behalf of the Indian government.

Cricket bat

The current design of a cane handle spliced into a willow blade through a tapered splice was the invention in the 1880s of Charles Richardson, a pupil of Brunel and the first chief engineer of the Severn railway tunnel.

David Alan Stevenson

His cousin was Robert Louis Stevenson, and grandfather was Robert Stevenson.

Dumpy level

In 1832, English civil engineer William Gravatt, who had worked with Marc Isambard Brunel and his son Isambard on the Thames Tunnel, was commissioned by Mr. H.R. Palmer to examine a scheme for the South Eastern Railway's route from London to Dover.

Elias Durnford

Elias Durnford (13 June 1739 – 21 June 1794) was a British army officer and civil engineer who is best known for surveying the town of Pensacola and laying out a city plan based on two public places (now the Plaza Ferdinand VII and the Seville Square).

Epes Randolph

Epes Randolph (August 16, 1856 – August 22, 1921) was an American civil engineer and businessman who constructed railroads in America's South, Ohio, Arizona, California, and Mexico.

Fort Magruder

Soldiers and impressed slaves constructed the line to the east of Williamsburg as recommended by Captain Alfred L. Rives, an 1848 civil engineering graduate of Virginia Military Institute (VMI) who was acting chief of the Engineer Bureau at Confederate headquarters in Richmond.

Colonel Benjamin S. Ewell, leader of the 32nd Virginia Infantry had been trained as a civil engineer at the United States Military Academy at West Point and most recently serving as the President of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg.

Giovanni Battista Calvi

Prior to working for the Spanish Monarchy he worked as a civil engineer in Rome, under the direction of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, on the façade of Palazzo Farnese.

Guthrey Centre

Both started their working career in Scotland, with John as a mechanical engineer in Glasgow, and Andrew as a civil engineer in Edinburgh.

Harvey Slocum

Harvey Slocum (October 23, 1887 - November 11, 1961) was an American civil engineer and dam-building expert, known primarily for his part in the construction of Grand Coulee Dam in the United States and the Bhakra Dam in India.

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.

Homestake Pass

The pass was discovered by Edwin Harrison McHenry, a civil engineer working for the Northern Pacific Railway, who was tasked with locating a route for the NP from the main line near Logan, Montana through to Butte.

Iron armour

Among its members was Sir William Fairbairn, a noted civil and structural engineer who had also built over 80 iron vessels before retiring from shipbuilding.

James Caudy

Caudy hosted Washington again in 1755, and he provided him with an ample supply of grass seed that was likely produced in one of Caudy's fertile fields known as "Caudy's Meadow." Civil engineer Claudius Crozet later made mention of "Caudy's Meadow" in his fieldnotes during the planning and construction of the Northwestern Turnpike nearby.

John Benjamin Henck

John Benjamin Henck (October 20, 1815 Philadelphia – January 3, 1903 Montecito, California) was a classical scholar and civil engineer.

Julian Hawthorne

He studied civil engineering in America and Germany, was engineer in the New York City Dock Department under General McClellan (1870–72), spent 10 years abroad, and on his return edited his father's unfinished Dr. Grimshawe's Secret (1883).

Julius Walker Adams

Julius Walker Adams (18 October 1812 - 13 December 1899) was a United States civil engineer, military leader, and railroad engineer, who designed the Starrucca Viaduct.

Kenneth Bigley

Kenneth John "Ken" Bigley (22 April 1942 – 7 October 2004) was a British civil engineer who was kidnapped in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq, on 16 September 2004, along with his colleagues Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, both U.S. citizens.

Lambert's Point

The Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad (N&P) was built under the oversight of William Mahone, young civil engineer from Southampton County, Virginia who had been educated in the first graduating class of Virginia Military Institute (VMI).

Lars Isovaara

Lars Anders Isovaara (born 23 January 1959 in Vittangi, Norrbotten County) is a Swedish civil engineer and former politician of the Sweden Democrats.

M. A. Rogovin

A. Rogovin (1838- February 27, 1923) was a Russian civil engineer responsible for construction of many fortresses in Russia: Libau, Brest Fortress, Kovno among others.

Marietta Earthworks

The complex was again surveyed and drawn in 1838 by Samuel R. Curtis (at the time a civil engineer for the state of Ohio).

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.

Raoul Weiler

During his professional activities, mainly as an ICT-manager at Bayer Antwerpen N.V., he was elected president of the Royal Flemish Engineers Association (K VIV), counting 11.000 academic engineers.

Raymond R. Schumacher

Raymond Richard Schumacher (15 Apr 1924 Chicago - 04 Nov 1973 Oak Lawn,IL) served in the Army Air Force during World War II, played as a fullback for the Chicago Bears after the war, and later worked as civil engineer for the City of Chicago.

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).

Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures

Hamilton commissioned civil engineer Pierre Charles L'Enfant, responsible for the layout of the new capital at Washington, D.C. to design the system of canals known as raceways suppylings the power for the watermills in the new town.

Spiro Koleka

After completing his secondary education in the Italo–Albanian college of San Demetrio Corone (Collegio of Sant'Adriano), in the Italian province of Cosenza, Spiro Koleka continued his higher education at the University of Pisa (1930–1934) where he graduated as a Civil Engineer.

Stevenson screen

It was designed by Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887), a British civil engineer and father of the author Robert Louis Stevenson.

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.

Walmersley

The old road was one of the many roads in east Lancashire constructed by John Metcalf, perhaps better known as Blind Jack Metcalf, a civil engineer from Knaresborough.

Watkin's Tower

Watkin formed a company to manage the project, the International Tower Construction Company and to oversee construction he appointed Benjamin Baker, a civil engineer who was involved in the design of the Forth Bridge and the Aswan Dam.

William Milnor Roberts

As a young civil engineer involved in the construction of the Eads Bridge, the chief engineer of Northern Pacific Railroad, America's second transcontinental railroad, and president of the American Society of Civil Engineers scarcely two decades after its founding, Roberts was one of the most prolific and prominent civil engineer of his generation in the United States.

Zealous Bates Tower

Zealous Bates Tower (January 12, 1819 – March 20, 1900) was an American soldier and civil engineer who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.


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Alexander Gibb

Gibb was born in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, the son of the civil engineer, Alexander Easton Gibb, and the great-grandson of John Gibb, an early member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Arthur Lynch

Arthur Alfred Lynch (1861–1934), Australian civil engineer, physician, journalist, author, Irish MP, soldier, anti-imperialist and polymath

Baron Fairhaven

Broughton was the eldest son of the civil engineer, businessman and Conservative Member of Parliament, Urban H. Broughton, who died in January 1929 before his intended elevation to the peerage as Baron Fairhaven.

Bergen County Court House

James Riely Gordon, a civil engineer, born in Winchester, Virginia, won a competition to design the Bergen County courthouse.

Bienvenue

Fulgence Bienvenüe (1852–1936), French civil engineer largely known for construction of Paris underground railway

Chameau

Jean-Lou Chameau, civil engineer and president of the California Institute of Technology

Charles Redvers Westlake

His report, jointly produced in 1947 with the civil engineer E. V. Richards, recommended Owen Falls as the location.

Conybeare

Henry Conybeare (1823-c.1884), civil engineer, architect and son of William Daniel

Daniel Pérsico

Pérsico qualified as a civil engineer in 1988 from the National University of Córdoba and began working for the provincial government in 1989.

David Rendel

His father was a foreign correspondent for The Times, and he is a great-grandson of civil engineer Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel, and a great-great-nephew of Liberal MP Stuart Rendel.

David T. Abercrombie

Abercrombie later came to study at Baltimore City College and became a practicing civil engineer and topographer, including explorer and chief of survey for Norfolk & Western Railroad in the coal and timber lands of West Virginia.

Delaware Air National Guard

Over a dozen C-130 transport missions brought Civil Engineers from the 166 Civil Engineer Squadron (CES), communications specialists, ground and air medical personnel, fire fighters (166CES) and other skilled personnel who contributed to relief efforts in almost a dozen cities in Mississippi as well as Louisiana in the city of New Orleans, in areas north of Lake Pontchartrain such as the towns of Slidell and Hammond.

Douglas Fox

Charles Douglas Fox, British civil engineer known as (Sir) Douglas Fox

Eduardo Frei

Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (born 1942), Chilean politician and civil engineer, president of Chile from 1994 to 2000, son of the above

Ernest Scott

Scott was born in Northampton, England son of Hannah Scott, housekeeper; William Scott, civil engineer, was cited as his father when Ernest married.

Francisco Serrano

Francisco J. Serrano (1900–1982), Mexican civil engineer and architect

Frederick William Cappelen

Frederick William Cappelen (October 21, 1857 – October 16, 1921) was a Norwegian-born architect and civil engineer who held the office of Minneapolis City Engineer.

Fulgence

Fulgence Bienvenüe (1852-1936), French civil engineer, famous for his participation in the creation of the Paris Métro

George Church

George Earl Church (1835–1910), American civil engineer and geographer

George Morell

George W. Morell (1815–1883), civil engineer, lawyer, farmer and Union general in the American Civil War

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.

Henry de Bury

Count Robert Visart de Bury, of Bury in Péruwelz, Belgium and St. John, New Brunswick, a civil engineer, studied at the Episcopal College of Mecheln, in Belgium, at the University of Zurich and at the Polytechnic School of Stuttgart in Württemberg.

Henry T. Anthony

After that, he worked intermittedly as a civil engineer, at the Erie railroad, Croton Aqueduct and Hudson River railroad, and as a clerk at the Bank of New York.

Herbert Krenchel

Civil engineer Herbert Krenchel, born April 16, 1922 in Frederiksberg, Denmark

Hydraulic telegraph

The British civil engineer Francis Whishaw, who later became a principal in the General Telegraph Company, publicized a hydraulic telegraph in 1838 but was unable to deploy it commercially.

Ibrahimiya Canal

Sir William Willcocks, the famous British civil engineer, would construct the Assiut Barrage later in 1901 to provide means for better control of its discharge.

IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line

The tunnel was designed by civil engineer Clifford Milburn Holland, who would later serve as the first chief engineer of the Holland Tunnel.

J. George Stewart

He was special engineer to the lands division of the United States Department of Justice and Corps of Engineers in 1952/1953, and was a civil engineer in Hollywood, Florida in 1954.

Jahanara Imam

In 1948 she married Shariful Alam Imam Ahmed, a Civil Engineer, whom she met in Rangpur while studying at Carmichael College.

James Fulton

James Edward Fulton (1854–1928), New Zealand surveyor and civil engineer

James Weston

James A. Weston (1827-1895), American civil engineer, banker, and politician

L'Enfant

Pierre Charles L'Enfant, an architect and civil engineer credited with planning the city of Washington, D.C.

Lewis Waller

Waller was born in Bilbao, Spain, the eldest son of an English civil engineer, William James Lewis, and his wife, Carlotta née Vyse.

Macedon, New York

Travis Williams — Civil Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder of The Gourmet Sandwich Company, Inventor of Sudoku.

Maryland Air National Guard

The 175 WG has two active USAF gaining commands: the Air Combat Command for its fighter aircraft and United States Air Forces in Europe for its 235th Civil Engineer Flight.

Matt Roy

Mat Roy Thompson (1874–1962), American civil engineer and architect

McCaleb

Neal McCaleb (born 1935), American civil engineer and politician

Mechanical Concrete

This technology was invented in 2004 by Samuel G. Bonasso, a professional civil engineer, a former secretary of the West Virginia Department of Transportation and former deputy administrator of the Research and Special Programs Administration and of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Nellie Peters Black

Black's father, Richard Peters, moved from Pennsylvania to Georgia to survey the railroads, as he worked as a civil engineer.

Norman Sakamoto

Sakamoto is a registered civil engineer and a licensed general contractor, and worked for the City and County of Los Angeles and the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Rob Kell

John Robert ("Rob") Kell, CBE (1902 - 1983) was an English civil engineer with particular expertise in the field of heating, ventilation and air conditioning.

Robert Mylne

Robert William Mylne (1817–1890), English architect, civil engineer and geologist

Roger M. Natsuhara

During this assignment, he was selected to become a member of the Civil Engineer Corps, and he would spend the next 22 years as an engineer with the Civil Engineer Corps.

Sir Evan Davies Jones, 1st Baronet

He qualified as a civil engineer and was involved in the building of the Severn Tunnel and the Manchester Ship Canal.

St. Francis Dam

The Santa Clara River Protective Association employed the geologist and Stanford University professor emeritus, Dr. Bailey Willis, and eminent San Francisco Civil Engineer and past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers Carl E. Grunsky.

Standard Motor Company

He was a civil engineer by profession but realised the enormous potential of the horseless carriage, and with a gift of £3,000 from Sir John Wolfe-Barry he became a motor manufacturer, establishing a small factory in a two-storey building in Much Park Street, Coventry.

Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross

Cooper was the son of John Cooper, of Edinburgh, a civil engineer, and Margaret, daughter of John Mackay, of Dunnet, Caithness.

William Edwin Brooks

William Edwin Brooks (July 30, 1828, near Dublin, Ireland - January 18, 1899, Mount Forest, Ontario) was a civil engineer in India and an ornithologist.

William Hutton

William Rich Hutton (1826–1901), civil engineer known for his sketches and diary of life in the pueblo of Los Angeles