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Example sentences for "civil engineering"

  • Civil engineering embraces, roughly, all work in the soil.

  • He should select mining or civil engineering as his particular vocation.

  • So, too, with graduates in mining engineering, in electrical engineering, in civil engineering, although the opportunities for specialization in any of these latter branches are not so good as in the mechanical field.

  • Civil engineering is a profession which keeps its followers pretty well out in the open.

  • Don't forget that I expect next month to take that examination in civil engineering.

  • Having graduated from school, he has taken up the study of civil engineering, and while engaged in that calling in Texas he becomes mixed up in most unusual happenings, the particulars of which are given in the pages that follow.

  • If I ever make anything of civil engineering I hope some day to be able to do some great work in other parts of the world--maybe in Mexico or South America.

  • I almost wish I had taken up civil engineering myself.

  • Hardly less important was the establishment in 1855 of a course in civil engineering.

  • In fact, he spent this period to such advantage that later, upon his return from Europe, he was given the choice of a professorship either in civil engineering or modern languages, an evidence of the wide range of his interests.

  • Late Regius Professor of Civil Engineering in the University of Glasgow.

  • Summer schools are maintained by the Institute in the departments of civil engineering, mining engineering and architecture.

  • We now come to the great tunnel under the Alps, the most remarkable and gigantic enterprise ever attempted in civil engineering.

  • But in order to estimate properly the magnitude of the work, its possible and probable cost, and the time within which it can be done, it is necessary to know what has been accomplished in this department of civil engineering.

  • Vogel is curator of civil engineering in the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology.

  • The Bollman system of trussing, along with those of Whipple and Fink, may be said to have introduced the great age of the metal bridge, and thus, directly, the modern period of civil engineering.


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