Engineering & Beyond

Workshop 2005Civil Engineering

Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Department

Agenda

Describe civil engineering.Apply civil engineering

concepts.Have fun!

Civil Engineering - the people serving professionSubdisciplines of Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Geotechnical Engineering Transportation Engineering Environmental Engineering Water Resources Engineering Construction Engineering Surveying Engineering Civil Engineering Materials

Structural Engineering

Geotechnical Engineering

Transportation Engineering

Environmental Engineering

Water Resources Engineering

Construction Engineering

Surveying Engineering

Materials Engineering

CE Professions – “the sky is the limit”

Eager to be a Civil Engineer??...

Let’s design a bridge….

Howe Truss

Pratt Truss

Warren Truss

West Point Designer Software allows you to design a truss bridge.

You can design your bridge selecting a joint/member combination.

The GOAL???Structurally adequate….

and…economical.

$$$$

Cost components

Bridge approach and abutments Structural elements

Material shape - flat iron or tubes

Material type - carbon steel or high strength

Material size - length and “width”

Connections

COLOR SCHEME

TENSION members turn BLUE

COMPRESSION MEMBERS turn RED The intensity of the color is directly

proportional to the intensity of the loading