Civil engineer

The new trend in civil engineering is nothing other than road architecture, where traditional roads are modified with a pinch of garbage. The serving purpose of the new technology of roads is to recycle wastes that are just cluttering the earth. Traditional concrete and asphalt roads are made from crushed minerals then mended together with a base material. The problem here with traditional roads is the waste of heat and the poor quality; the tar coating tends to let water seep through and over…

vessel. Since vessel could not be cooled, the pressure inside the vessel began to rise and chemical runaway began to occur. Chemical runaway is the process that exothermic reactions get out of control and cause an explosion (Institute of Chemical Engineers, n.d.). During the evacuation process, the pressure became too great and caused a rupture in the piping. According to the CSB report, workers reported a sound that appeared to be like a “jet engine” (CSB, 2009). By the time this occurred,…

Statement of Purpose My decision to obtain a PhD degree is inspired by the desire to combine my creativity with specialized knowledge to invent and enhance technology for this ever changing world. I am confident that a PhD degree from the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder will serve as a link between the potential and this career goal of mine. My passion to study engineering grew when I got GPA 5 out of 5 in the Secondary School…

engineered to withstand harsh conditions, although this is true, there seems to be a new crumbling every time the earth shifts. This endangers not only the people on these structures, but the people around them as well. The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the bridges in America a ‘C’ on their national report card in 2013, which is their most recent report. (ASCE 2013) With such a mediocre grade, it would be thought that the Department of Transportation would tighten down and send more…

Over the past several weeks three separate memos have been prepared for the XLIX Faculty as a part of the Whole Life Concept Project. The memo subjects were all based on the Whole Life Concept Model, which has four main rings to it, passion, skills and knowledge, application, and impact. The first memo that was written focused on my passion and what impact I want to have on the world. In the first memo, I also set forth three, five, and ten year goals for myself. The second memo I wrote was…

Above all of my interests, the civil engineering industry fascinates me the most. Once I participated in a Popsicle Bridge Contest organized by APEGBC at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops as a part of extracurricular activity for my Physics 12 class. I did an abundance of research…

Peaceful resistance to laws not only provides a positive impact on a free society but it provides the change needed for a free society to always become more opportunistic for all its citizens. Dr. King is synonymous with civil disobedience and the civil rights movement, and lead the first activist movement in American history where change by peaceful resistance was preached to a nation of people. Martin Luther King gave countless speeches to angered African Americans urging…

FORCE AND STATIC EQUILIBRIUM Introduction The research is to be made on the most important concepts of the civil engineering which are force and static equilibrium. These concepts are very important for the engineering point of view. The force can be considered as the element which moves or tries to move and stops or tries to stop the body in motion. So whenever there is a force applied on an object it changes its inertia and causes to changes its state of rest or motion. The structures should…

System identification techniques: Extraction of the modal parameters from the response of the structure to vibration is an important step in SHM. Firstly, it gives to the engineers information about real dynamic behaviour of the structure. Secondly, designed model of the structure using computing technologies, FEM model, may be validated and optimized through comparison analytical and experimental modal parameters. The procedure developing the mathematical model of the structure on the basis of…

assistance to fires and flooding, but nothing momentous. It wasn’t until the early 1950s when the Civil Defense became a huge focus. Civil defense became a huge deal because of the Cold War. With the United States and Russia going at each other and threatening to use nuclear bombs, the Federal government had to help prepare its’ citizens. The goal for the Federal Civil Defense Agency (and the following Civil Defense offices) was to “...lead and coordinate efforts to protect residents from…