1. Engineering & Beyond Workshop 2005 Civil Engineering Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Department

2. Agenda Describe civil engineering. Apply civil engineering concepts. Have fun!

3. Civil Engineering - the people serving profession Subdisciplines of Civil Engineering  Structural Engineering  Geotechnical Engineering  Transportation Engineering  Environmental Engineering  Water Resources Engineering  Construction Engineering  Surveying Engineering  Civil Engineering Materials

4. Structural Engineering

5. Geotechnical Engineering

6. Transportation Engineering

7. Environmental Engineering

8. Water Resources Engineering

9. Construction Engineering

10. Surveying Engineering

11. Materials Engineering

12. CE Professions – “the sky is the limit”

13. Eager to be a Civil Engineer??... Let’s design a bridge….

16. Howe Truss Pratt Truss Warren Truss

17. West Point Designer Software allows you to design a truss bridge.

18. You can design your bridge selecting a joint/member combination.

19. The GOAL??? Structurally adequate…. and…economical. $$$$

21. Cost components Bridge approach and abutments Structural elements Material shape - flat iron or tubes Material type - carbon steel or high strength Material size - length and “width” Connections

23. COLOR SCHEME TENSION members turn BLUE COMPRESSION MEMBERS turn RED The intensity of the color is directly proportional to the intensity of the loading