CE 101 Introduction to Civil Engineering

The Past, the Present and the Future

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OUTLINE

1. What is Civil Engineering?

2. Civil Engineering Fields

3. Civil Engineering: The Past

4. Civil Engineering: The Present

5. Civil Engineering: The Future

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What is Civil Engineering?

CIVIL ENGINEERING is a professional engineering discipline that deals with:

Design, Construction, Maintenance of the physical and natural built environment,

including works such as bridges, roads, canals, airports dams and Buildings etc.

One of the oldest professions ever. 4

Civil engineering is the fusion of engineering (the soundness of infrastructures), design (CAD sketches) and art (designing aesthetic structures).

It is the professional art of applying scientific principles

to the optimum conversion of the resources of nature for the use of the humankind.

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What is Civil Engineering?

Definition by ASCE ( American society of civil engineers)

Civil Engineering is the profession in which knowledge of

the mathematical and physical sciences gained by study, experience and practice is applied with judgment to develop ways to utilize economically the materials and forces of nature for the progressive well-being of man.

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What is Civil Engineering?

Bridge Engineering Construction engineering Environmental engineering Fire protection engineering Geotechnical engineering General engineering Hydraulic engineering Materials science Piles Engineering Structural engineering Surveying Timber Engineering Transportation engineering Water resources engineering

The name civil engineering originates from the purpose of distinguishing its civilian activities from those of military engineering in the 17th century.

Military engineering developed long before civil engineering in ancient Rome.

In the 18th century, civil engineers wanted to show that they were a different group doing different jobs like :

building villas, sewer lines or roads rather than building military camps, fortifications, assault

bridges or tunnels

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What is Civil Engineering?

The word engineer originates from the Latin

term ingenerare, meaning to invent, to create or

to regulate.

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Origin of the name

1. Architecture 2. CIVIL ENGINEERING 3. Mechanical Engineering 4. Mining Engineering 5. Metallurgical Engineering 6. Naval architecture 7. Electrical Engineering 8. Aeronautical & Space Engineering 9. Chemical Engineering 10. Electronics Engineering 11. Nuclear Engineering 12. Biomedical Engineering 13. Industrial Engineering 14. Genetic Engineering 15. Environmental Engineering

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Branches of ENGINEERING ( sorted by date )

4.86 billion years old ( estimated age of planet earth )

3.8 million years appearance of 1st human being

Civil engineering activities can be assumed to have started as soon as the humans changed from being fruit/meat gatherers/hunters to farmers, and communities began to form.

Protecting the settlement by building a wall around it, is engineering of the simplest form.

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Civil Engineering : THE PAST

Civil Engineering : The Past

Great Pyramids of Giza (around 2589 B.C)

Pyramids have been built at various times and places; The best-known are those of Egypt and of Central and South America. The pyramids of ancient Egypt were royal tombs. About 80 royal pyramids survive in Egypt, the greatest being those at Giza.

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Imhotep, a priest-architect responsible for planning and execution of the works to build the King Zoser high stepped pyramid in 2650 B.C. (Saqqarah, Egypt)

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THE PAST First recorded Civil Engineer

The Colosseum is an example of ancient Roman architectural engineering,

It was used for gladiatorial games and was even flooded for mock navy battles,

It measured approximately 85x53 m,

Overall capacity to accommodate 87,000 people.

THE PAST Glory of Ancient Rome

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The Colosseum (70-82 AD) Rome, Italy

The Pantheon (120-124 AD) Rome, Italy

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THE PAST American Pyramids

American pyramids include the pyramids of the Sun and Moon at Teotihuacn, the Castillo at Chichn Itz, and various Inca and Chim structures in Andean settlements.

built of earth and faced with stone; typically stepped pyramids used for rituals, including human sacrifice.

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Pyramid of the Magician, Uxmal, Mexico ( 600 AD)

THE PAST American Pyramids

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Ellora Caves , India, 630 AD

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Engineering TODAY Today, civil engineers are in the forefront of technology. They are the leading users of sophisticated high-tech

products.

Applying the very latest concepts in computer-aided design (CAD) during design, construction, project scheduling, and cost control.

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Civil engineering is about community service, development, and improvement.

It involves the conception, planning, design, construction, and operation of facilities essential to modern life, ranging from transit systems to offshore structures to space satellites.

Civil engineers are problem solvers, meeting the challenges of pollution, traffic congestion, drinking water and energy needs, urban redevelopment, and community planning.

Civil Engineering: The Present

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A Showcase of Excellence

Channel Tunnel One of the most current and

exciting civil engineering feats has linked Britain and France for the first time in 8,000 years.

The Channel Tunnel (or "Chunnel") is among the largest engineering projects in history and the longest undersea tunnel ever built.

High-speed trains are now crossing the English Channel on a regular schedule.

Marmaray Project, Istanbul

Marmaray Project, Istanbul

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Beijing National Stadium the "Bird's Nest"

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21 hectares 258,000 m2 Seating capacity: 91,000 + including 11,000 temporary seats. two independent structures: a red concrete seating bowl + outer steel frame. $290 million.

High speed trains Sleek, silvery bullet trains reach speeds of close to 500 kilometers per

hour in Japan and Europe.

Today, more and more sophisticated rail lines are being proposed to solve transportation needs around the world.

Our future as a nation will be closely tied to space, energy, the environment, and our ability to interact with and compete in the global economy.

As the technology revolution expands, as the world's population increases, and as environmental concerns mount, your skills will be needed.

There is no limit to the personal satisfaction you will feel from helping to make our world a better place to live.

Whatever area you choose; design, construction, research, teaching, or management, civil engineering offers you a wide range of career choices.

Civil Engineering: The Future

Civil Engineering: The Future Engineers are involved in designing and building of:

the roads you drive on; signalization of the traffic lights that you see on these roads; bridges and overpasses that you use; amphitheaters and theatres that you see plays; dams, irrigation channels, water distribution systems and

sewer systems that you daily use; buildings that you live and work; towers, shopping centers and hotels; Etc.

Civil engineers have the pleasure of undertaking the most important role of making the environment more favorable for the humanity with the structures they built.

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Demands for the future

Build better, faster, cheaper.

The cities of the future

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CIVIL ENGINEERING

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Civil Engineering Program aims To educate the students as civil engineers who: have a capability of using the basic sciences in the solution and

analysis of complex civil engineering problems, have advanced oral and written communication skills, have a strong background of analysis, programming and

drawing applications by computer, have interaction with the disciplines other than engineering in

the scientific and social subjects, Individuals who know the ways of learning, thinking, making

research, have the leadership attribute and are in reciprocal influence

with the social environment that they are in and beneficial for that environment.

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General

Civil Engineering covers a wide range of engineering applications from dams, tunnels, pipelines and highways to buildings.

Civil Engineering is distinguished as being one of the earliest engineering disciplines.

Throughout the ages it has provided creative and feasible solutions to many of the basic human needs and problems, and it still continues to take pride in being a fundamental building block of civilization

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Program The first two years of the undergraduate program is dedicated to the study

of basic sciences and mathematics which provide the student with engineering fundamentals.

The study of mechanics and materials which is basic to civil engineering begins in the second year.

The third and fourth years involve the study and application of the principles of geotechnical engineering (behavior of soils, design of foundations), structural engineering (analysis and design of reinforced concrete and steel structures), hydraulics engineering (flow of water in pipes, open channels, water resources), and the general systems approach to engineering problems.

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Mission

Our mission is to educate the students to gain an understanding of the fundamentals of science and engineering so that they can develop solutions to Civil Engineering problems and enhance their computing, communication, and research skills.

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