You may ask how are roads and bridges built? Well, the answer is civil engineering. Civil Engineers design, build, and supervise major infrastructure projects and systems. This may include buildings, parks, roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, pipelines, railways and water supply/sewage treatment systems.
Specializations:
- Structural
- Environmental
- Geotechnical
- Water resources
- Transportation
- Construction
- Urban planning/smart cities
Skills:
- Math (advanced algebra, calculus, trigonometry, statistics)
- Sciences (physics, biology, chemistry)
- Programming/algorithms
- Engineering fundamentals
- Geometric design
- Structural dynamics
- Electrical circuits
- Mechanics of materials
- Fluid mechanics and hydraulics
- Environmental geotechnology
- Transportation engineering
Societies:
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE): ASCE advances professional knowledge and improves the practice of civil engineering.
- American Concrete Institute (ACI): ACI International is dedicated to improving the design, construction, manufacture, and maintenance of concrete structures.
- American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC): AISC’s purpose is to expand the use of fabricated structural steel through research and development, education, technical assistance, standardization, and quality control.
- Construction Specifications Institute (CSI): CSI provides technical information and products, continuing education, professional conferences, and product shows to enhance communication among all the non-residential building design and construction industry’s disciplines.
- American Institute of Architects (AIA): AIA research undertakes as its mission to support architectural research and design excellence by identifying the research needs of the architectural discipline. in its broadest and most inclusive sense. AIA encourages, facilitates, and supports research activities which meet these needs and disseminates research results.
- Association of Iron and Steal Technology (AIST): AIST is dedicated to the advancement of technical and engineering phases of the production and processing of iron and steel.
- Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists (AEG): Engineering geology is geologic work that is relevant to engineering, environmental concerns, and the public’s health, safety, and welfare.
Conferences:
- ICME 2021: Municipal Engineering Conference
- ICECE 2021: Environmental and Civil Engineering Conference
- ICCESE 2021: Civil, Environmental and Structural Engineering Conference
- ICCBE 2021: Civil and Building Engineering Conference
- ICURAVAHRV 2021: Understanding and Responding to Aquifer Vulnerability, Associated Health Risks and Vulnerability Conference
Sources
Wikipedia, Try Engineering (IEEE), Civil Engineering Conferences, Engineering Professional Associations & Organizations, Engineering Societies & Organizations, professional association websites
