Civil Engineering: 2017

Sunday, May 7, 2017

Multiple stories of a civil engineering

Start here or see the diagram.

It all started like this.

After all these years of hardship, I finally finished my three year in college. I studied in Civil engineering and learned a lot of things in engineering such as the concrete technology, soil mechanics, steel structure and a lot of other things. I decided on two choices of my future.
Choice 1: I decided to go to Polytechnic of Montreal.
Choice 2: I decided to apply for some engineering job.

Scene 1.

I decided to go to Polytechnic of Montreal. Luckily, I got accepted and I was overwhelmed because of my low grade. I got bored so I decided to do the exchanged student program. I have three different university country to go.

Choice 1: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.
Choice 2: University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
Choice 3: National University of Singapore (NUS) in Singapore.

Scene 2.

I decided to go to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. I met a lot of different people and and my English was improved. A friend of mine invite me to a party but I have an upcoming exam.
Choice 1: I decided to go to the party.
Choice 2: I decided to stay home.

Scene 3.

So, I decided to go to the party even thought I had an exam. A girl named Natasha asked me out.
Choice 1: I go out with her
Choice 2: I refuse to go out with her.

Scene 4.

I decided to go out with Natasha, and we had a good time together. We married and had three children. Suddenly, I woke up, and it was just a dream.
Start again: Unfortunately, I failed my exam. Choose another path.

Scene 5.

I refused to go out with her and I returned home early and I did some time management plan to study before going to the party. I woke up early and pass my exam.
Start again: Please choose another choice for some exciting stories.

Scene 6.

I decided to stay home because of the upcoming exam in steel structure. I realize I did not write the important notes for the exam. So, I have to find a solution.
Choice 1: I call a friend to lend me his note.
Choice 2: I decided to study with my remaining notes and I pray to pass my exam.

Scene 7.

I decided to call a friend but he never answered. I got so much frustrated that I fell asleep. I woke up late, took the exam and failed.
Start again: Go to the beginning for more choices.

Scene 8.

I decided to study with my notes, and I went to sleep early. I pull off the exam thanks for listening to the teacher.
Start again: Choose another destiny.

Scene 9.

I went University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Everything went well in school and in all my exams I got straight A's. One of my friends named Josh invited me on an indoor water park called "Sandcastle Water Park" and another one named Jean invited me on an engineering tourist attraction.
Choice 1: I decided to go to the indoor water park with my friend Josh.
Choice 2: I decided to go to the engineering tourist attraction with my friend Jean.

Scene 10.

I decided to go to the water park called "Sandcastle Water Park" with Josh. I had an amazing time with Josh and an invaluable memory of my first indoor water park. A bunch of guys did some sexual harassment on a girl. What should I do?
Choice 1: I decided to protect the girl.
Choice 2: I decided to call the security.

Scene 11.

I decided to go to protect the girl but got beat up instead. As soon as I got beat up, the security came and they ran away.
Start again: Choose your future.

Scene 12.

I decided to call the security and they arrested them.
Start again: Go to the beginning and take another path.

Scene 13.

I decided to go to the engineering tourist attraction with my friend Jean. We discovered the history of engineering in-depth. Suddenly, there was a thief who stole my friend wallet.
Choice 1: I pursue the thief .
Choice 2: I scream for help and let the security handle the situation.

Scene 14.

I decided to pursue the thief and caught him. I took off his mask and it is Josh who felt lonely so he decided to prank us.
Start again: Go to the beginning for more stories.

Scene 15.

I decided to scream and the security caught the thief who was Josh. The security took Josh without listen to our explanation to the situation.
Start again: Go to the beginning and discovered more stories ending.

Scene 16.

I decided to go to National University of Singapore (NUS) in Singapore. I visited around the country and everything looks futuristic and colorful. In the end, I must choose whether I go apartment hunting or my University.
Choice 1: I go to National University of Singapore (NUS) in Singapore
Choice 2: I go apartment hunting.

Scene 17.

I decided to go to National University of Singapore (NUS) in Singapore first. I was confused by how big the University was but a guide came and showed me everything in the University. My first journey in the University began.
Choice 1: I visited my civil Engineering program first.
Choice 2: I visit clubs in the University.

Scene 18.

I decided to visit my program first. I attend to my first class but my name is not on the list. I realize that my University is Nanyang Technological University(NTU).
Start again: Write a sentence that will take the reader to the beginning again.

Scene 19.

I decided to visit the clubs in the University first. My first clubs that I wanted to visit was the club of video games. Without knowing the alphabet or the language of Singapore, I ended up in a pornographic club.
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Scene 20.

I go apartment hunting. I am thinking which apartment should I visit first.
Choice 1: I go to the apartment from my University
Choice 2: I go to the apartment outside the University.

Scene 21.

I decided to visit the apartment in the University. When I entered one of the apartments, it was messy, awful and smelly.
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Scene 22.

I decided to visit apartments from outside. Everything looks nice, the design give a futuristic look and the view from outside was incredible.
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Scene 23.

I chose to apply for some engineering jobs. I sent my CV in a lot of engineering jobs. Luckily, I got accepted in all of them because of my experience with my father workplace about cable and wire that come in handy.
Choice 1: I decided to go in a company that offer a good deal of engineering discipline.

Scene 24.

I decided to go to the company that offers multiple sub-discipline in engineering. As an intern, I learn the ropes of every sub-discipline of engineering. They offered me some vacant position in their sub-discipline. I decided on two sub-discipline.
Choice 1: I decided to go in the environmental engineering.
Choice 2: I decided to go in the structural engineering.

Scene 25.

I decided to go in environmental engineering. After seeing all my potential in this job, they decided whether I should work in leg work or environmental work.
Choice 1: I decided to go to leg work.
Choice 2: I decided to go in the environmental work.

Scene 26.

I decided to do some leg work. Everything looks great but the drawback was the overtime work because of a lot of information.
Start again: Take another choice.

Scene 27.

I decided to go in the environmental work. Everyone of my team is lovely and happy with their job. We had a great time together to keep the planet sanitary as possible.
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Scene 28.

I decided to go in the structural engineering. My mentor offered me whether to work in structural design or structural analysis.
Choice 1: I decided to in the structural design.
Choice 2: I decided to go in the structural analysis.

Scene 29.

I decided to go in the structural design. Everyone was nice and work hard to make sure everything is stable. I had a lot of fun working with them.
Start again: Choose another path.

Scene 30.

I decided to in the structural analysis. In this job, everyone was eager for a better wage. They do everything such as undermine or withholding for their compensation package. The feeling was like an office politics where no one would share anything. It was a dead-end job that forced me to quit.
Start again: Choose another path for more stories.

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Thursday, April 6, 2017

Paraphrase of "A Day in the Life of a Civil Engineer"

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If you are the kind of child who assembled an entire urban center made out of pieces in his room, then research civil engineering. Civil engineers deals with a lot of construction such as roads, public buildings and others. Projects are divided by three stages: preconstruction arranging, execution and public work maintenance. The preconstruction stage consists of measuring, analyzing blueprint, the amount of money needed, then settling the choices about timetables, materials and staffing. This stage is normally indoor. Executing is where the assembly starts, and many engineers invest most of their working times on inspecting the development and managing all structure. One engineer explain that sometimes you work outside for about three days. Issue must be fix in the site, and engineers are the main people with intelligence and capacity to carry out. Public work maintenance involves stress test, assessment, and ongoing back up, happens after the development is done. Civil engineers goes back to their place of business to gather all filing and do concluding improvement to the plan. Then, they restart the procedure once more. Structural architects buckle down, working times can be endless, finance from the government can demolish the project, due date are firm, and climate can throw project off calendar. If there is less time, an engineer has to come up with a solution to fix scheduling problems. About all studies, they pointed out that imagination is the first crucial quality that civil engineer have. Around fifty percent of structural architect are working for the federal, country, local government, which implies that they should be prepared for bureaucratic deferrals, political slow down and piles of filing. Even if civil engineer never know when a project comes up, it still doesn't upset them. One engineer explain that a project can be extended for ten year, so they do not precisely move every week. Fulfillment is strong; most of them would not exchange their occupation for others.

Paying Your Dues

Civil engineers must have an engineering degree in college licensed by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology for three to four years of understanding. They additionally need to be qualified by a state-sponsored Professional Engineer test. Most of them found useful information by joining to an expert affiliation, for example, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Present and Future

Civil engineer in Egypt at the period of the Pharaoh construct pyramids; engineers in the classic Greece and Rome construct a house of prayer, conduit, and an outstanding open structure; structural architect in China made the Forbidden City. Urban center couldn't have been worked without civil engineers; they produced the majority of the structure in the United States. Civil engineering work throughout the following decade will reconstruct, rather than building, America collapsing infrastructure. The majority of this will occur in urban areas where the finance are tough and just the plan that are in condition of emergency are supported. Structural architect will likewise be constructing water treatments plants and unsafe rubbish clean up sites. Requirement for civil engineers are anticipated being tough, but candidates must be ready to move to places in need in order to follow those occasion.

Quality of life

Present and future

Two years in line of work, civil engineers are still in their first experience, acquiring the work of understanding that will permit them to take state-sponsored engineering exam. Most of them do routine development and administrative assistant work. A lot of them are "junior" engineers that are oriented by an expert. Hour are long, but fulfillment is strong.

Five year out

Civil engineers who have endure five year have earned "assistant" or "grade one" engineer profile. A lot of them put a lot of effort in the year three to eight, attempting to differentiate themselves from other candidates. Fifteen-hour days are not abnormal for civil engineers in the workplace. Precious experience is obtain. Most of them must move in order to discover a place of responsibility, and some leaves. Fulfillment stays high; hours increase.

Ten years out

Civil engineers who have endured ten years are now in supervisory or directing role. Most of them are more into the preconstruction phase, however they invest less hour at the site amid the development stage that they did before. Many of them move toward becoming research engineers and utilize their experience to explore new things related to engineer. Fulfillment stays high; hours reduce; wage rises.

Sources:

http://www.princetonreview.com/careers/36/civil-engineer

Sunday, March 19, 2017

3 Websites Everyone in Civil Engineering Should Know about

Hello everyone, my name is Steven. I am currently a student of Ahuntsic College in Montreal, Quebec. There are a lot of students that graduated from high school who struggle about what field of study should they go. Well, civil engineering might be an interesting choice for those of you out there who is interested in construction. Here are 3 websites everyone in civil engineering should know about.

1. Develop your maths and physics skills.

Civil engineering is the second-oldest engineering discipline. It is a professional engineering that deals with design and construction. Civil engineering is a profession that faces a lot of physics and mathematics. A lot of students are having difficulties in math and physics. Dealing with those two school subjects can be quite challenging and stressful at the same time when you are stuck in a problem.

Of course, math and physics in high school might be easier but in college it is much more complicated and complex.So, here is a website called http://civilengineer.webinfolist.com/. This website explain thoroughly all about civil engineering such as hydraulics, construction materials, environmental engineering and other. But the most interesting part of this website is that they have the calculator features at the top of screen in the middle. They have plenty of options such as bending moment calculator, moment of inertia calculator and others features.

2. Learning throught courses.

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Sometimes you just don't feel present in class. You can't concentrate in class for a lot of reasons such as deadlines, loads of homework, part-time job and others reasons. When it comes to exams, you face a lot of panics and anxiety of not knowing the answers because of the lack of concentration in class.

Then, here is a website called http://nptel.ac.in/. The website acronym is National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning and it is created by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) and one Indian Institute of Science (IISc). This Web page was funded by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). There are approximately 1121 courses (419 are webs based courses and 502 are video courses)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Programme_on_Technology_Enhanced_Learning) of all five engineering branches (Civil, Computer Science, Electrical, Electronics and Communication and Mechanical). So, this website will help people in civil engineering to review what they learn in class or learn new things to be more advanced in class. If you are tired of reading books or the web, you can sit comfortably at home or school and watch their video course which might be easier for you to learn.

3. Improve your understanding of the world of Civil Engineering.

Civil engineering is not all about textbooks. You can stay up all night studying and obtains a good grade but when you graduate, knowing nothing about what is happening in the world is frustrating. Article is the solution to learn many things around world.

So, here is a website called http://civildigital.com/. They provide the concept of green-learning and knowledge about civil engineering. At the top of screen in the middle, they have article. Those articles explain things about the building structure, components, material need and sketches. This website will help you reinforce your knowledge about all the building in the world and opens you up in a lot of creativity.

Conclusion

All these websites will be really helpful for those people in civil engineering and also for people who hesitate on what career they want. The purpose of this listicle is to make the reader understand civil engineering and also for me because it is my future field of study.

Monday, February 27, 2017

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Monday, February 6, 2017

Civil engineering glossary

Hello everyone, my name is Steven. I am currently a student of Ahuntsic College in Montreal, Quebec. A college is an education institution offering people to go to their career. My programs right now is Springboard DEC. Springboard DEC is a program that let you explore different career and obtain the prerequisite (s) you need to meet the admission requirements of a program of study. The purpose of this glossary is gathering some knowledge about civil engineering and it has also picked my interest.
term 1: karst: definition 1: A landscape formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.
term 2: mullion: definition 2: It's a vertical element that divide a window.
term 3: abiosestron: definition 3: It's a non-living particulate matter in lakes and oceans.
term 4: rabbet: definition 4:It's a recess or groove cut into the edge of a piece of machinable material, usually wood.
term 5: quoin: definition 5:It's a mansory blocks at the corner of a wall.
term 6: pyroclastic: definition 6:It's a clastic rocks composed solely or primarily of volcanic materials.
term 7: caisson: definition 7:A watertight retaining structure used, for example, to work on the foundations of a bridge pier, for the construction of a concrete dam, or for the repair of ships.
term 8: calorifier: definition 8:A vessel used for heating low-pressure hot water.
term 9: caliper: definition 9: A device used to measure the distance between two opposite sides of an object.
term 10: gabion: definition 10: A cage, cylinder, or box filled with rocks, concrete, or sometimes sand and soil for use in civil engineering, road building, military applications and landscaping.
term 11: zalutite: definition 11:A type of steel that is coated for corrosion protection by a mixture of zinc and aluminium.
term 12: zooglea: definition 12:Bacteria used in the treatment of sewage.
term 13: pagoda: definition 13:Frame used as an ornamental garden feature to train and support climbing plants.
term 14: valve: definition 14:A fitting that is capable of stopping or reducing the flow of gases or liquids through a pipe.
term 15:maglev: definition 15:A high-speed electrically operated train that uses a magnetic field to glide above the track.
term 16: mahogany: definition 16:A type of timber commonly used in furniture applications.
term 17: mainshock: definition 17:The largest magnitude recorded in a series of earthquakes.
term 18: exudate: definition 18:A fluid emitted by an organism through pores or a wound, a process known as exuding.
term 19: pyrolysis: definition 19:A process whereby waste material is subjected to thermal degradation.
term 20: hysteresis: definition 20:The delay or lag in response by an object to a change in the force that acts upon it.; Sources:; 1.http://fieldrelated.com/construction.php?sel=2; 2.http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199534463.001.0001/acref- 9780199534463; 3.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_civil_engineering