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Introduction To Civil Engineering
Introduction To Civil Engineering
Introduction To Civil Engineering
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Introduction To Civil Engineering

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This book aims to make You love civil engineering and I am sure that at the end of this course You all be happy about selecting Civil Engineering proficiency. First, the life of civil engineers and famous civil engineering structures as a great success of us are introduced. Later some technical knowledge is given to civil engineering candidates. Subsequently, civil engineering candidates are brought to a real construction site and met a successful civil engineer. Afterward, courses in civil engineering are briefly introduced and a visit to the Civil Engineering chamber is done.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 24, 2019
ISBN9780463793572
Introduction To Civil Engineering
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Abdullah Fettahoglu

Dr.Abdullah Fettahoglu is graduated from Istanbul Technical University in 2003 as an M.Sc. Civil Engineer and from Yildiz Technical University in 2015 as a Ph.D. Civil Engineer respectively. He worked in academics and at construction sites as well. His primary academic papers are: "Recommended properties of elastic wearing surfaces on orthotrotropic steel decks" published by Steel and Composite Structures and "A new approach to the determination of stiffness moduli of asphalt mixtures from IDT test" published by Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (ASCE). He writes self-learning civil engineering books, with which he aims to educate civil engineering students ready to work at construction sites, once graduated.

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    Introduction To Civil Engineering - Abdullah Fettahoglu

    EARTH SCIENCE

    CHAPTER 10: CIVIL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM III

    HIGHWAY ENGINEERING

    HYDROMECHANICS

    STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

    SOIL MECHANICS

    FUNDAMENTALS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE DESIGN

    CHAPTER 11: CIVIL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM IV

    ECONOMY IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

    FOUNDATION ENGINEERING

    DESIGN OF REINFORCED CONCRETE DESIGN

    FUNDAMENTALS OF STEEL STRUCTURAL DESIGN

    CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

    CHAPTER 12: MEETING A CIVIL ENGINEER BUSINESSMAN

    CHAPTER 13: CONSTRUCTING A TRUSS BRIDGE MADE OF SPAGETTI

    PART I: BUILDING THE BRIDGE

    PART II: COLLAPSING THE BRIDGE

    CHAPTER 14: VISITING CIVIL ENGINEERING CHAMBER

    SERVICES PROVIDED BY CHAMBER

    ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE OF CHAMBER

    CHAPTER 15: SAYING FAREWELL TO EACH OTHER

    REFERENCES

    CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

    INTRODUCING INSTRUCTOR TO (CIVIL ENGINEERING) CANDIDATES

    Instructor’s:

    Name: Abdullah Fettahoglu

    Title: Dr.Civil Engineer

    Room Number: 999

    Phone: +90 392 999 00 00

    E-mail: abdullahfettahoglu@gmail.com

    Office Hour: Monday, Wednesday and Friday

    13:00- 17:00

    MEETING WITH CANDIDATES

    Questions to ask to candidates:

    What is Your name?

    Where do You come from?

    Why did You select civil engineering profiency?

    Meet Hayley a Bachelor of Civil Engineering student (Watch Video 1) [1].

    Is Your job ready after graduation? Click on Figures 1.1-1.10 to learn how many jobs are waiting for civil engineers.

    Figure 1.1 Civil engineering job search engine [2].

    Figure 1.2 Civil engineering job search engine [3].

    Figure 1.3 Civil engineering job search engine [4].

    Figure 1.4 Civil engineering job search engine [5].

    Figure 1.5 Civil engineering job search engine [6].

    Figure 1.6 Civil engineering job search engine [7].

    Figure 1.7 Civil engineering job search engine [8].

    Figure 1.8 Civil engineering job search engine [9].

    Figure 1.9 Civil engineering job search engine [10].

    Figure 1.10 Civil engineering job search engine [11].

    What are Your expectations from civil engineering working life?

    You can expect one of the lives given in the videos below:

    Video 2, Video 3, Video 4 [12-14]

    DISTRIBUTION OF SYLLABUS TO STUDENTS

    In a real course of Introduction To Civil Engineering instructor should distribute course syllabus (outline) to students and verbally read the syllabus to students.

    END OF FIRST WEEK

    In a real course of Introduction To Civil Engineering instructor should say to students See You next week, Please tell absent candidates to be present in the classroom next week.

    CHAPTER 2: CIVIL ENGINEER

    DEFINITION OF A CIVIL ENGINEER

    A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering, i.e. the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating structures and infrastructures, while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing old structures and infrastructures (See Figure 2.1).

    Figure 2.1 Planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating structures [15].

    Civil engineering is one of the oldest engineering disciplines, because it deals with constructed environment including planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures, and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and sewage systems. Thus, a civil engineer serves to the civilisation (See Figure 2.2).

    Figure 2.2 Old and new buildings.

    The term civil engineer was established by John Smeaton in 1750 to contrast engineers working on civil projects with the military engineers, who worked on armaments and defenses. Over time, various sub-disciplines of civil engineering have become recognized and much of military engineering has been absorbed by civil engineering [18].

    SPECIALIZATION OF A CIVIL ENGINEER

    Civil engineers usually practice in a particular specialty, such as construction engineering, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, land development, transportation engineering, hydraulic engineering, and environmental engineering. Some civil engineers, particularly those working for government agencies, may practice across multiple specializations, particularly when involved in critical infrastructure development or maintenance [18] (See Figures 2.3-2.8).

    Figure 2.3 Construction Engineering [19].

    Figure 2.4 Geotechnical Engineering [20].

    Figure 2.5 structural engineering [21].

    Figure 2.6 Land development, transportation engineering [22].

    Figure 2.7 Hydraulic engineering [23].

    Figure 2.8 Environmental engineering [24].

    EDUCATION OF A CIVIL ENGINEER

    In most countries, a civil engineer will have graduated from a

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