CIVIL ENGINEERING
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design,
construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment,
including works like roads, bridges, canals,
dams, and buildings. Civil
engineering is the oldest engineering discipline after military engineering, and it was defined to distinguish non-military
engineering from military engineering. It is traditionally broken into several
sub-disciplines including environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, geophysics, geodesy, control engineering, structural engineering, engineering, earth, atmospheric sciences, forensic engineering, municipal or urban engineering, water resources engineering, materials engineering, offshore engineering, quantity surveying, coastal engineering,
surveying, and construction engineering. Civil engineering takes place on all levels: in the
public sector from municipal through to national governments, and in the
private sector from individual homeowners through to international companies.