...Responsibilities and Duties of a Civil Engineer Author : Exforsys Inc. Published on: 26th Oct 2006 | Last Updated on: 13th Dec 2010 The General Responsibilities and Specific Duties of a Civil Engineer The work of a civil engineer is all around us yet many do not even realize what a civil engineer is responsible for doing. The job role of a civil engineer is extremely important as it equates for the overall safety of society in many different facets. It is important to look at the role that a civil engineer plays and realize what they do in their daily job duties that make the area safe for the people who live there. What Is a Civil Engineer? It is important to first provide a formal definition highlighting the role of a civil engineer. A civil engineer is responsible for using their civil engineering background to plan and oversee various construction efforts in many different areas of this field. They will apply civil engineering principles to ensure that structures are constructed in the safest, sturdiest manner. General Responsibilities of a Civil Engineer A civil engineer engages in many general responsibilities on a daily basis. These responsibilities are a crucial part of their job and enable the civil engineer to engage in their profession to the best of their ability. One general responsibility of the civil engineer is to analyze various factors concerning a construction job. The civil engineer will analyze the proposed site location as well as the entire...
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...Problem 346 A boom AB is supported in a horizontal position by a hinge A and a cable which runs from C over a small pulley at D as shown in Fig. P-346. Compute the tension T in the cable and the horizontal and vertical components of the reaction at A. Neglect the size of the pulley at D. Solution 346 HideClick here to show or hide the solution answer answer answer - See more at: http://www.mathalino.com/reviewer/engineering-mechanics/problem-346equilibrium-non-concurrent-force-system#sthash.YTMR7Vde.dpuf Problem 347 Repeat Problem 346 if the cable pulls the boom AB into a position at which it is inclined at 30° above the horizontal. The loads remain vertical. Solution 347 HideClick here to show or hide the solution Because θ = 60°, T is perpendicular to AB. answer answer answer - See more at: http://www.mathalino.com/reviewer/engineering-mechanics/problem-347equilibrium-non-concurrent-force-system#sthash.0kqNyniB.dpuf Problem 348 The frame shown in Fig. P-348 is supported in pivots at A and B. Each member weighs 5 kN/m. Compute the horizontal reaction at A and the horizontal and vertical components of the reaction at B. Solution 348 HideClick here to show or hide the solution Length of DF Weights of members answer answer answer - See more at: http://www.mathalino.com/reviewer/engineering-mechanics/problem-348equilibrium-non-concurrent-force-system#sthash.IXmlmVC1.dpuf Problem 349 The truss shown in Fig...
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...the facts in the situation – obtain all of the unbiased facts possible Donald J. Giffels is a civil engineer and president of a engineering consulting firm. His firm was under a contract to some work with installing equipment at a facility to train firefighters dealing with fire crashes of airplanes. Jet fuel was recently replaced with liquid propane because it contaminated the soil to simulate fires. Giffels was concerned about the lack of design in areas crucial to safety. No design analysis was submitted either. He contacted the designers for a justification in approving the design. Giffels contacted another engineering firm that had installed similar designs and they had confirmed the cause for concern about safety when looking at the design. A mechanical engineering firm was asked to do a design study but was turned down because of liability fears. Therefore Giffels firm asked the government to be absolved of any responsibility in case of mishaps do to inadequate design. The firm refused to proceed with the installation until safety issues were addressed. The government agency agreed and brought in three other firms to fix the safety issues. Step 2: Define the Stakeholders - those with a vested interest in the outcome The Government agency would be a stakeholder. Where they have overlooked the safety designs and failed to submit an analysis. Giffels’ civil engineer is a stake holder also who would have felt the guilt of ignoring the design although his firm is...
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...Abstract- Being a Civil Engineering Student and specialization in infrastructure development Engineering Geology is very important. It is that branch of applied sciences which deals with the application for a safe, stable and economic design and construction of a civil engineering projects. It is rather a new field of applied sciences that has developed due to interaction between the civil engineering practice and geological sciences. Introduction- In today’s fastest growing world day by day infrastructure development of any country like India is very important for their growth and for a career as a civil engineer, grasp of fundamental of engineering geology is almost universally considered as essential as that of soil mechanics, strength of material or theory of structures. The present application of geological knowledge in planning, designing and construction of very big civil engineering projects is considered not only desirable but also absolutely essential. The scope of engineering is best studied with references to major activities of the profession of a civil engineer are construction, water resource development, town and regional planning. In all types of heavy construction jobs such as building, towers, tanks,...
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...Response Journal 2 - Ethics Ethics is one of the most common concept that every engineers must know before starting their career life. The code of ethics for engineer was created so that engineers can follow these codes and do not attempt to make any error intentionally. It is a set of rules and obligations that set a standard for an engineer’s decision. In other word, the code of ethics required every engineers to be honest, fairness, equity, and must be dedicated to the protection of public health, safety, and welfare. (Engineers, 2007) The short story “The adventure of the Engineer’s thumb” written by Arthur Conan Doyle is a good example regarding engineering’s code of ethics. The story was told to Sherlock Holmes, began in London 1889 about a young hydraulic engineer, Mr. Hatherley. Hatherley was offered to fix a hydraulic machine with a salary of 50 guineas by a person who identified himself as Colonel Lysander Stark. However, the job has to be perform around mid-night although rather to be just around an hour, out of town in Berkshire. Hatherley could not resist to accept a good offer because his gross taking was only 27 pounds 10s every day. Stark wanted the job to be performed at midnight because he did not want his neighbors to acknowledge the valuable of the land around them. There were large deposit of fuller’s earth under the land. Later on, after arriving to Stark’s place and took an inspection of the press machine, Hatherley discovered the floor consist of...
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...Safety ကို အဓိပၸါယ္ဖြင့္ ဆိုရလ်င္ “ေဘးရန္ကင္းျခင္း၊စိတ္ခ်ရျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္” ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ civil engineer အတြက္ သီးသန္႕ဖြင့္ဆုိရလ်င္ “အလုပ္ခြင္အတြင္း လူ၊ အသုံးအေဆာင္ကိရိယာမ်ား၊ စက္ယႏ ၱယားမ်ား၊ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ အားထိခိုက္မွဳမရွိေအာင္ကာကြယ္ျခင္း” ကို ဆိုလိုသည္။ ေဖာ္ျပပါ အခ်က္(၇)ခ်က္အနက္ ကြ်ႏ္ုပ္ အေရးၾကီးသည္ဟု ထင္ေသာအခ်က္မွာ(a)ျဖစ္သည္။ (a)၏ အဓိပၸါယ္ရွင္းလင္းခ်က္တြင္ “လစဥ္ safety crew ေဘးအႏၱရယ္ကင္းရွင္းေရး၊ လုပ္သားကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားမွ safety ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍အစည္းအေဝးျပဳလုပ္ျခင္း” ျဖစ္သည္ဟူ၍ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။ ဤ တြင္ေျပာထားေသာ လစဥ္ ဟူေသာ စကားလုံးသည္ အေရးပါသည္။ အခ်ိန္အပိုင္းအျခားတစ္ခုကို ေဖာ္ျပထားျပီး၊ မနဲလြန္းမမ်ားလြန္းေသာ အခ်ိန္ပမာနတစ္ခုျဖစ္ကာ ထို အခ်ိန္အတိုင္းအတာ တစ္ခုေရာက္တုိင္း အျမဲတေစျပဳ လုပ္သြားမည္ ဟုဆုိလုိျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ safety ျဖစ္ရန္အတြက္ အခ်ိန္အတိုင္းအတာတစ္ခုေရာက္တုိင္းျပန္လည္ စစ္ေဆးျခင္း သို႕မဟုတ္ ညွိႏွိဳင္းအၾကံျပဳျခင္းမ်ားျပဳလုပ္သင့္ပါသည္။ လုပ္သားမ်ားနွင့္ site ထဲရွိ engineer မ်ား ေဘးအႏၱရယ္ကင္းရွင္းေရးမွာလဲအေရးပါေသာ အခန္းက႑ ကပါဝင္ပါတယ္။ လစဥ္အစည္းအေဝးတြင္လုပ္သားကိုယ္စားလွယ္ မ်ား မွေနျပီးေတာ့ safety အေၾကာင္း ကို အစည္းအေဝး လုပ္ သြားမယ္ လုိ႕ဆုိိပါတယ္။ အစည္းအေဝးတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပပါ အခ်က္(7)စလုံးအား ေဆြးေႏြးသင့္ျပီးေတာ့ ဆံုးျဖတ္ႏိုင္ပါသည္။ လိုအပ္သည္ Equipment မ်ား ကို လဲ တပ္ဆင္၊ဝတ္ ဆင္ သင့္သည္ မ်ား ကိုလဲ ေဆြးေႏြးအတည္ျပဳသင့္ပါသည္။ ေအာက္ေျခလုပ္သားမ်ားသာမကပဲ site ထဲရွိ လူမ်ား စက္ကိရိယာမ်ား ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ ေတြကို လဲ မထိခိုက္ေအာင္ စည္းမ်ဥ္း ေတြ ခ်မွတ္သင့္ပါတယ္။ အကယ္၍ တစ္စုံတစ္ရာ ျဖစ္လာပါကလဲ ျဖစ္သည့္အေၾကာင္းအရင္းနဲ႕ ဆုံးရွဳံးနစ္နာမွဳမ်ားကိုလည္းမွတ္တမ္းတင္ ထားရွိရန္လိုအပ္ပါသည္။ ေနာင္အခါ အလားတူကိစၥမ်ား ထပ္မံမျဖစ္ပြားေစရန္ျဖစ္သည္။...
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...Academic Honesty The opportunity or the accessibility for students to cheat is greater now than previous years. In the article, “Honor Principle differs from peers,’ ” by Lindsay Ellis and Kira Watkin of Dartmouth University, it is stated that Dartmouth, Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania base their honor code on trust. This leaves for an open interpretation of the honor principle by students, and works off the idea that students are able to distinguish for themselves what is inappropriate and appropriate behavior. Although it is rather generous to have an honor principle that is so vague, it can also be a bad thing to have. Some students may not want to collaborate or share tips about the work because they’re afraid it would be in violation of the principle. I think that certain guidelines should be established for very research heavy assignments, such as labs and papers, in each class, like Biology Professor Smith at Dartmouth does with her students. This was a policy I have followed through my high school and first years in college. Each student collaborates with obtaining the data, but it’s the interpretation of it that varies. There was an incident at Harvard University that was discussed in class about the 125 graduate seniors who were made to take a leave of absence or withdraw for collaborating on a take home test. An investigation is being conducted for these students and it was brought up in class about whether or not it was fair to rescind all...
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...Name: HUY HUYNH Class: PHIL-370 Instructor: Michael Davis Third Paper ENGINEERS AND LAYERS Ornella Muti, P.E., was retained by plaintiff’s attorney to evaluate a transponder used in small planes to determine whether it could have been the cause of a mid-air collision. While doing the evaluation, Muti discovered that the transponder has a flaw which, though unrelated to the collision, might well cause another dangerous error, failure to respond during the approach to landing if the ambient temperature is too high. Since this second flaw both concerns public safety and was unrelated to the case, Muti sent a senior engineer at the defendant company a copy of the relevant parts of her report when she sent the entire report to the plaintiff’s attorney, telling the attorney what she had done. Plaintiff’s attorney then filed a complaint with us, alleging breach of confidentiality, breach of contract, and other unprofessional conduct. The case is pretty simple to understand. Muti was hired by a plaintiff’s attorney to investigate a transponder whether it caused a mid-air collision. While doing so, she found an unrelated flaw that could cause a hazard. She sent a second engineer at the defendant company parts of her report, and then sent a full report to the plaintiff’s attorney, telling about the second engineer. The attorney filed a complaint against Muti. The case itself has a few ambiguous details. We have made the following assumptions to clarify these ambiguities so that we...
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...understand the reality of ‘engineering.' For them, engineers are “super-humans” who build rockets, robots, electric vehicles and the like. The reason is that when a person says he works on a satellite project, people jump to the conclusion that he knows every detail of building a satellite. In reality, no engineer can know the entire details of projects. For example, it requires people from various disciplines such as electrical, mechanical, chemical and materials engineering to design an electric car. Since the common man has the “super-human” view in mind, he generally does not accept or appreciate many of the “real” engineering works. For example, a home inverter might not bring about any awe to the common man as does an electric vehicle (though both might be equally challenging to build), because he often finds a technician setting right the problems in a home inverter. The technician just knows by experience what to do, whereas an engineer knows why it has to be done. Engineering is more valuable than science First, I will clarify the difference between ‘science' and ‘engineering' through a simple example. The study of optics of materials will fall under science. Scientists (physicists, in this case) will try to explain the optical properties which different materials possess. If someone tries to use the optical properties to make a microscope or a camera, he will be an engineer. Scientists establish facts which engineers exploit to make things useful to society. History...
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...this is what is called being selfish. For example, the purchase amounts of staff time to work on the weekend. This Quite simply is not the work of an ethical famous factories do, do. In light of the reputation and confidence, showing factories famous quality and value at the expense of small factories and start-ups. Greed to get as much as possible from customers and a thousand The benefits of competition to make catalog immoral. The most affected is the ultimate consumer Engineers are always trying to develop their companies no matter what the cost is. Many of the engineers working more than they should. For example, some of the engineers is trying hard to reach the top for the success of that company, even if it cost him to work outside working hours. Good job he does not harm in it. But, you gave the right engineer for other engineers to show themselves? Is this the work of aspiring engineer for selfish for himself or to serve the community and the people? Is this the work of engineer will cost consumers the right price, or he would use the uniqueness of this product is to raise prices exaggerated? I believe...
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...that we use to make our life more comfortable are created and maintained by engineers. Clearly engineers play an important role in our lives. However, there is a shortage of them. I believe that studying engineering should be encouraged and we should make engineering a more attractive career. In this report, I will address the importance of engineers, reasons why we are lacking them and some solutions that can help solve the problem. 2. The importance of Engineers Engineers apply their knowledge in mathematics, sciences, economics and society and use their practical skills to design and build structures, machines, devices, materials, systems, and processes1. Looking around us, everything from vehicles, buildings, facilities to our laptops, mobile phones have been created and are still maintained by engineers. Hence, it is hard to imagine how our lives will be without them. Moreover, engineers are those who has changed and shaped the world today. “Engineers will drive the solutions to today’s most pressing problems” – Quote by Dean of Engineering, UC Berkeley. One of the most significant events in the history of the world’s economy is the Industrial revolution in eighteenth and nineteenth century. Starting in the UK, the manufacturing of products has switched from animal and labour based to machine based. Since then, the UK economy, and later the most of Europe economy have developed dramatically. Engineers continue to solve one of the biggest problems today, global warming. The...
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...MGT 434 Week 4 DQ 3 To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/MGT-434/MGT-434-Week-4-DQ-3 You are the Office Manager for an engineering firm. You interview Patricia for a position as the admin for three engineers and two surveyors. Three weeks after she accepts the job, she calls in sick. She does not bring in a doctors note. Two weeks later, she calls you to tell you that her boy friend”must undergo surgery. She has promised him that the first person he will see upon coming out of anesthesia will be she. She needs to take time off to fulfill her promise. You tell her to report in once she has seen him. One month after that, she comes to you and tells you that she needs an advance on her salary, as she is on the verge of being evicted. You speak with the owner, who says that she can have her check early ONLY this one time. Several days later, she calls on her cell phone. She speaks to one of the engineers and tells him to tell you that a car drove her off the road and the state trooper investigating the case believes that she needs to take the day off to recuperate. The engineer reports this to you. He also tells you that his team has been keeping a diary on her time and attendance. She constantly is leaving her work station, going outside to smoke or talk on has cell phone. She also has told them that she suffers from Crohn’s’ Disease and needs frequent bathroom breaks. You tell her that you would like to speak with her. She tells you, in reply,”Great...
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...MANUAL OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE FOR ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS I. CODE OF ETHICS FOR ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING PRACTITIONERS FOREWORD Honesty, justice and courtesy form a moral philosophy which, associated mutual interest among men, constitutes the foundation of ethics. The electronics engineer should recognize such standard, not in passive observance, but a set of dynamic principles guiding his conduct and way of life. It is his duty to practice his profession according to this Code of Ethics and Conduct. The keystone of professional conduct is integrity. Hence, it behoves the electronics engineer to discharge his duties with fidelity to the public, his employer and his client and with fairness and impartially to all. It is my duty to interest himself in public welfare, and to be ready to apply his special knowledge for the benefit of mankind. He should uphold the honor and dignity of his profession and avoid association with enterprise of questionable character. In his dealings with fellow engineers, he should be fair and tolerant. RELATIONS WITH THE STATE 1. Each and every engineer shall recognize and the supreme authority of the State as express through its laws and implemented by its agencies, whenever wherever such laws do not infringe upon the rights and privileges of citizens as guaranteed by the Constitution. 2. He shall recognize that the well-being of the public and the interest of the State are above the well-being and interest of any individual. ...
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...101-40 Sheppard Ave. W., Toronto, ON M2N 6K9 T: 416 224-1100 800 339-3716 www.peo.on.ca Enforcement Hotline: 416 224-9528, ext. 1444 Financial Credit Program 1. NAME (Please complete, detach and forward to PEO with your application fee and supporting documents) PEO USE ONLY (Use your full legal name exactly as it is shown on your proof of citizenship) Last Name NUMBER (Former Family Name If Applicable) STREAM First Names First Name most commonly used DATE Date of Birth Year / Month / 2. PROOF OF IDENTITY Sex o M o F TYPE CATEGORY ROUTE Day (attach documentation) LOCATION RECOGNIZED o Canadian Citizen o Permanent Resident in Canada If applicable, what is your date of landing Year / Month / 1 Day 2 3 VERIFICATION 1 2 3 1ST YEAR TO WRITE 3. CURRENT RESIDENCE ADDRESS Number/Street Name STATUS Unit/Apt. Number City Province Home Phone Number Postal Code EXAMS COMPLETED RECORDED (_____) ______-_________________ E-Mail PPE 4. ACADEMIC BACKGROUND Bachelor’s Degree Discipline: Date Granted: Year University Name Post-Grad Degree Discipline: University Name Month REINSTATED Date Granted: / Month Provisional City/Country Discipline: Date Granted: Year University Name CLOSED City/Country Year Additional Degree / City/Country 1 of 4 / ...
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...work together to improve product development. Its main focus is around the “voice of the customer”. By using the House of Quality (HOQ) to understand the voice of the customer, they are able to translate this into the voice of the engineer to help keep a consistent design scheme. The first thing you must do is identify the customer’s needs. These range from the benefits they want to the service they expect to be provided. Personal interviews and focus groups are then made to find anywhere from 100-400 needs that the customers desire. The next step is structuring these needs into a hierarchy based on primary, secondary, tertiary, etc. After structuring the needs, they are then prioritized so that the most desired needs are taken care of first while the others are not deemed as necessary. The last thing that is done is to have the customers assess the current products to see which aspects they should replicate in future products. All of this must then be translated and communicated to the engineers to establish the “voice of the engineer.” They come up with design attributes such as time to perform task, initial setup time, and time for a new operator to perform the task. All of the engineering measures must then be compared with others. The engineers then specify the strongest relationships while leaving the other 60-70% blank. A roof matrix is then created to analyze the tradeoffs between the different variables. These processes have been implemented in many different companies...
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