Talk: Civil engineering
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Ingenieros civiles dedicados al diseño y construcción de vias, puentes y tuneles.
I removed this sentence from the end of the article; this is the English Wikipedia. I can't read Spanish very well, but it seems to be a simple, one-sentence explanation of what civil engineering actually is. Since this article didn't have one of those in the first paragraph, I added one in English. -- Merphant
What is Civil Engineering
This page doesn't seem to describe the civil engineering I know and practice. In my world most civil engineers are:
- Site designers who prepare construction plans for the interface of construction projects with the real world. They do paving, grading, water, sewer, drainge, and irrigation designs and work under architects.
- Land development engineers who prepare constrruction plans for paving, grading, water, sewer, drainage, and irrigation for subdivisions as prime consultants.
Some civil engineers specialize in such disciplines as:
- Water or sewer systems and networks master planning.
- Flood control analysis and planning
Structural engineering is a sub-discipline, but isn't a majority segment to my knowledge. Hawstom 22:56, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I think the page is OK for the most part. Each of the sub-disciplines are civil engineer things. A little more clean up could be done to uniformly convert references from sanitary engineering to environmental engineering. The part of the article that confuses me is the discussion of Master of Science. It is not clear if a master of science level degree in any field (say biology) qualifies to be called "civil engineer" or only engineering related studies. greybeard 15:05, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
