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    Introduction To Civil Engineering
    Introduction To Civil Engineering
    Introduction To Civil Engineering
    Ebook289 pages57 minutes

    Introduction To Civil Engineering

    By Abdullah Fettahoglu

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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
    PublisherAbdullah Fettahoglu
    Release dateJul 24, 2019
    ISBN9780463793572
    Introduction To Civil Engineering
    Author

    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: [email protected]

      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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