Chaos theory infects civil engineers

How Formal Ontology can help Civil Engineers

In this paper we report some considerations on the developing relationship between the area of formal ontology and that of urban development. Even in the studies on urban and territorial systems we register a phenomenon common to most applied domains: the increasing interest on ontology and the difficulties to understand its novelty. Indeed, the area of applied ontology spans a variety of metho...

Chaos/Complexity Theory and Education

Sciences exist to demonstrate the fundamental order underlying nature. Chaos/complexity theory is a novel and amazing field of scientific inquiry. Notions of our everyday experiences are somehow in connection to the laws of nature through chaos/complexity theory’s concerns with the relationships between simplicity and complexity, between orderliness and randomness (Retrieved from http://www.inc...

Urban Transportation - A Special Challenge for Civil Engineers

Transportation has historically had a major influence on cities their locations, growth and form. Civil engineers were the leading public servants in construction of railway and transit systems. With diversification of transportation and, particularly, growth of highways, the solutions to urban transportation have become extremely complex. Instead of only building new facilities, it is now nece...

Chaos Theory

A Road Map for Civil Engineers towards Bridge Engineering Through Academic Education and Professional Training

It is common in many countries that engineers having an academic degree in Civil Engineering are appointed responsible for different tasks related to Bridge Engineering. However, there are serious questions about whether formal university courses in civil engineering could cover the needs of a bridge engineer to fulfill his or her job successfully. Regarding the recent significant advances in t...