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.
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