1. Civil and Environmental Engineering
Engineering the Future-2012
Civil and Environmental Engineering

2. What is Civil Engineering?
Civil engineering is the design and maintenance of public works such as roads, bridges, water and energy systems as well as public facilities like ports, railways and airports. - ASCE

3. What does a civil engineer do?

4. Civil Engineers Structural Engineer Environmental Engineer
Geotechnical Engineer
Transportation Engineer
Hydraulic Engineer

5. Structural Engineers Scientific Terms and Principles: Forces Torque
Levers
Friction
Inclined planes
Inertia
Gravity
Resonance
Metallurgy
Seismology
Work

6. Structural Engineers Engineering Terms:
Forces/gravity/inertia = Static and Dynamic Loads
Torque/Levers = Moments, Torsion
Friction/Inclined planes = Bolted connectors
Metallurgy = Welded connectors
Seismology = Earthquake loads
Harmonics/Resonance = Dampening

7. Structural Engineer
The goal of every structural engineer is to design a safe and efficient structure.

8. Bridges

9. Buildings

10. Environmental Engineers
Goal: To provide safe resources from nature, and to safely return used resources to nature.
Areas:
Water treatment
Wastewater treatment
Air quality
Distribution systems

11. Environmental Engineers
Scientific Terms and Principals:
Chemistry
Biology
Fluid mechanics (liquid and gas)

12. Geotechnical Engineers
Goal: To modify existing soil conditions to be suitable for engineering projects.
Soils
Footings
Foundations (shallow/deep)

13. Geotechnical Engineers
Scientific Terms and Principals:
Geology (Soil mechanics)
Hydrogeology (Ground water)
Fluid mechanics

14. Hydraulic Engineers
Goal: To safely control the flow of water in both natural and man-made waterways.
Examples
Dams
Levees
Drainage channels
Canals
Irrigation

15. Hydraulic Engineers Scientific Terms and Principals: Hydrology
Hydrogeology
Fluid mechanics

16. Transportation Engineers
Goal: To safely transport people and goods.
Areas:
Planes
Trains
Automobiles
Public Transit
Ships
Rail

17. Joke: How many civil engineers does it take to build a building?

18. Small Group Activity:
Bel Cheese is opening a manufacturing plant in Brookings, SD. Brainstorm the different types of civil engineers that will be involved in the project before, during, and after construction.

19. Before Land Surveyor - Site topography
Geotechnical - Soil tests and foundation design
Structural - Building and internal structure design.
Environmental - Water and wastewater system design
Transportation – Mobilization of materials, parking lot design

20. During Geotechnical - Consultation Structural - Consultation
Environmental - Consultation
Transportation - Moving construction materials to the site

21. After Structural - Design of manufacturing structures and components
Environmental - Water treatment (in), air treatment and waste treatment (out)
Transportation - Moving goods

22. Joke: How many civil engineers does it take to build a building
Joke: How many civil engineers does it take to build a building? Answer: Almost all of them!