CE-1 Civil Engineering Orientation
CE-1 Civil Engineering Orientation
CE-1 Civil Engineering Orientation
CIVIL ENGINEERING
ORIENTATION
Civil Engineering
• Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals
with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and
naturally built environment including works like roads, bridges,
canals, dams, and buildings.
History of Civil Engineering
• There was no clear distinction between civil engineering and
architecture, and the term engineer and architect were mainly
geographical variations referring to the same occupation and often
used interchangeably.
• Ancient pyramid-
shaped masonry
structures located in
Egypt
• 118 or 138 the
number of identified
Egyptian pyramids.
• A view of the
pyramid at Giza
from the plateau to
the south of the
complex
Chichen Itza
• pyramid-shaped
structures form a
prominent part of
ancient Mesoamerican
structure.
• Chichen Itza was a
large pre-Columbian
city in Mexico built by
the Maya people of the
Post classic
Qanat
• Water management
system
• sloping underground
channel to transport
water from an
aquifer or water well
Roman Aqueduct
• During peace time, they were concerned with the civil activities (
building fortifications for defense, making bridges, canals, etc).
• On the 18th century, the term civil engineering was firstly used
independently from the term military engineering.
• John Smeaton was the first engineer to call himself a “ civil engineer”
and constructed the Eddystone Lighthouse
• He founded the Society of Engineers in 1771. This society came to be
called Institution of Civil Engineers.
Eddystone Lighthouse
The line
covered 195
kilometers
from Manila to
Dagupan in
Pangasinan
Activity 1