EAS 140 Engineering Solutions

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EAS 140Engineering Solutions

• Lecture 11
• Civil Engineering Case Study
• and the Civil Engineering Profession

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Announcements

• Reading for Civil Eng. Case Study
• Jensen, section 4.5 and Chapters 5, 6, and 7
• Lab 5 Quiz on Labs 1-4
• Midterm
• Friday, October 22nd, 6-8 pm
• Civil Eng. Case study - due at Lecture 14

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Outline

• Case study revisited
• Civil engineering profession
• Civil engineering curriculum

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Civil Engineering Case Study

• Focus on
• structural engineering and construction
  management
• But dont forget
• geotechnical and environmental engineering

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Civil Engineering Case Study

• Primary tool
• force balance
• capacity (strength) gt load
• how strong is strong enough?
• safety factor capacity/load
• Load
• total load dead load live load
• dead load take-offs
• live load 80 people per walkway

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Civil Engineering Case Study

• Anatomy of a Walkway

deck
rod
box beam
stringer
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Civil Engineering Profession - Employment

• Many jobs
• 231,000 (expected in 2006)
• over 90 employed within one year
• Civils work as civils
• highest percentage working in field among
  engineers
• Good job growth
• increase by 18 (1996-2006)
• 82,000 new jobs (1996-2006)

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Civil Engineering Profession - Employment

• Government (46)
• state (22), local (15), federal (9)
• Consulting (37)
• highest among engineers
• become licensed
• Construction (7)
• Other (10)
• manufacturing, utilities, mining

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Civil Engineering Profession - Employment

• Salary (1995)
• starting 32,000
• average 62,500
• long-term salary ownership
• Job satisfaction
• 5/100 best job based on salary, prestige, growth,
  security (source Money)

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Civil Engineering Curriculum

• Overall philosophy
• grounded in mechanics
• breadth of civil
• Design and practice
• internship, Eng. Career Institute
• Track approach
• 15 technical electives
• Dual degree
• BS/MEng, BS/MBA

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Civil Engineering Curriculum

• Freshman year
• the usual
• Sophomore year
• statics, dynamics, mechanics
• also geodesy, graphics, probability and
  statistics

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Civil Engineering Curriculum

• Junior year
• structures I and II, fluid mechanics, soil
  mechanics, environmental engineering
• Senior year
• transportation, foundations, planning and
  management

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Civil Engineering Curriculum

• Tracks
• Construction engineering and management
• Environmental engineering
• Geoenvironmental and foundation engineering
• Structural engineering
• BSEE (Env. Eng.)
• Coming Fall, 2000

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Other Fun Stuff

• Contests and clubs
• steel bridge
• concrete canoe
• hazardous waste
• other Predator model
• Other organizations
• ASCE, SWE
• Faculty-student interactions
• clubs
• research
• classroom teaching excellence