Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Career Profile: Civil Engineering Technician
Civil engineering technicians help civil engineers in planning big projects such as building roads, dams, and waste treatment plants. This Science Buddies site lays out the requirements needed to become a civil engineering technician, as...
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World Wide Web Virtual Library: Civil Engineering
This site is an online library of information about civil engineering.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Civil Engineers
Find out about the profession of civil engineering. Take a look at working condition, salary expectations, and the job market.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Career Profile: Civil Engineers
Find out about the many aspects of the career of civil engineer. They plan and supervise the building of big projects. This Science Buddies site lays out the requirements needed to become a civil engineer, as well as the education and...
University of California
Uc Davis Undergraduate Admissions: Civil Engineering
Description of the career of civil engineers.
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Career Wise Education: Civil Engineers
This site takes a look at civil engineering as a career. Content explores what a civil engineer does, the type of skills and abilities required, how to prepare for this career, and much more.
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Asce: History & Heritage of Civil Engineering
Explore the profession of civil engineering. Investigate engineers that have made large contributions to the field.
Career Cornerstone Center
Sloan Career Cornerstone Center: Civil Engineering
A career in Civil Engineering is profiled.Included: Civil Engineering overview, Preparation, Day In The Life, Earnings, Employment, Career Path Forecast, Professional Organizations.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Skyscrapers: Engineering Up!
Skyscrapers are one of the most glorified products of Civil Engineering and contain an interesting history of progress and development. In this lesson, the students will learn about the history of the world's tallest free standing...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Fence That Farmland!
Students develop and solidify their understanding of the concept of perimeter as they engage in a portion of the civil engineering task of land surveying, using the technology of a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot to automate this task.
Government of Alberta
Alberta Human Resources and Employment: Oc Cinfo: Civil Engineer
This resource provides a definition of a civil engineer. In addition, information is given about working conditions, skills, interests and values, educational requirements and other requirements, employment and advancement opportunities....
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Graduating Engineer and Computer Careers Magazine: Structural Engineering
Structural engineering is a branch of civil engineering, and its applications are extremely diverse. A career as a structural engineer is profiled .. education, salary, job description .. are included.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Breaking Beams
Students learn about stress and strain by designing and building beams using polymer clay. They compete to find the best beam strength to beam weight ratio, and learn about the trade-offs engineers make when designing a structure.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Shapes of Strength
Students are introduced to brainstorming and the design process in problem solving as it relates to engineering. They perform an activity to develop and understand problem solving with an emphasis on learning from history. Using only...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Survive That Tsunami!
Students use a table-top-sized tsunami generator to observe the formation and devastation of a tsunami. They see how a tsunami moves across the ocean and what happens when it reaches the continental shelf. Students make villages of model...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Hurricanes
Learners learn what causes hurricanes and what engineers do to help protect people from destruction caused by hurricane winds and rain. Research and data collection vessels allow for scientists and engineers to model and predict weather...
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Teach Engineering: Construction Technologies: Construct the Strongest Bridge
In this activity, students will work in pairs to create three simple types of bridges. They will observe quantitatively how the bridges work under load and why engineers use different types of bridges for different places. They also will...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Pump It!
Pumps are used to get drinking water to our houses every day! And in disaster situations, pumps are essential to keep flood water out. In this hands-on activity, student groups design, build, test and improve devices to pump water as if...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Passive Solar Design
Students are introduced to passive solar design for buildings--an approach that uses the sun's energy and the surrounding climate to provide natural heating and cooling. They learn about some of the disadvantage of conventional heating...
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The American Society of Civil Engineers
Contains online civil engineering journals, as well as civil engineering news. It also has a bookstore where additional civil engineering materials can be purchased.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Building Towards the Future
This curricular unit introduces students to basic Civil Engineering concepts in an exciting and interactive manner. Bridges and skyscrapers, the two most visible products of Civil Engineers, will be discussed in depth. Students will have...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Working Together to Live Together
Students experience civil and environmental engineering by planning a housing development in an existing biome, while also protecting the native species that live there. They conduct research, draw plans, make brochures and give...
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Women in Mining: Asphalt Cookies [Pdf]
This activity introduces students to the civil engineering area of paving and road construction. Includes links to additional resources, a vocabulary list, background information, and images.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Parallel and Intersecting Lines: A Collision Course?
Students act as civil engineers developing safe railways as a way to strengthen their understanding of parallel and intersecting lines. Using pieces of yarn to visually represent line segments, students lay down "train tracks" on a...
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