Ethics is a critical component of Civil Engineering education and practice. This paper discusses a case study to integrate ethics into a required undergraduate Civil Engineering course -Civil Engineering Systems -at Georgia Institute of Technology. The course introduces systems and sustainability concepts in Civil Engineering planning, design, operations, and renewal, and thus presents an appro...

1School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China 2School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China 3Medway School of Engineering, The University of Greenwich, Kent ME4 4TB, UK 4Department of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China 5School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 479...

A novice engineer often faces many difficulties during the design of liquid retaining structures, which involve making many decisions on the basis of judgment, heuristics, code of practice, rules of thumb, and previous experience. There is a need to develop programming environments that can incorporate engineering judgment along with algorithmic tools. In this paper, the development of a web-ba...

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...

The goal of this thesis is the development of theoretical methods targeting the implementation of topology optimization in structural engineering applications. In civil engineering applications, structures are typically assemblies of many standardized components, such as bars, where the largest gains in efficiency can be made during the preliminary design of the overall structure [4]. The work ...

1 Lizette R. Chevalier, Chair, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, [email protected] 2 Shashi Marikunte, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, [email protected] 3 Jemil Yesuf, Graduate Student, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, [email protected] Abstract The use of empirical models is an integral part of the design and analysis of civil and ...

Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science, involved in the research, design, and application of intelligent computer. Traditional methods for modeling and optimizing complex structure systems require huge amounts of computing resources, and artificial-intelligence-based solutions can often provide valuable alternatives for efficiently solving problems in the civil engineering. Thi...

Imperial China employed a civil examination system to select scholar bureaucrats as ruling elites. This institution dissuaded high-performing individuals from pursuing some modernization activities, such as establishing modern firms or studying overseas. This study uses prefecture-level panel data from 1896-1910 to compare the effects of the chance of passing the civil examination on modernizat...

1 Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla 90112, Thailand 2 Civil Engineering Program, School of Engineering, University of Phayao, Phayao 5600, Thailand 3Department of Civil Engineering, ERI, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-701, Republic of Korea 4Department of Civil Engineering, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung 21...

As more and more civil engineering work becomes digital, the amount of information that engineers need to handle is growing exponentially. While this presents opportunities for reusing designs and increasing productivity, there remains the challenging of navigating around huge repositories of digital content. This presentation outlines a research line spanning about one decade in Information Re...