Understanding main issues and details

1. Analyze main issues:

a. Compare the three subdivisions of engineering and fill in the table:

Subdivision of engineering	Deals with	Structures	Overlapping

b. Find correct answers to the questions:

1. How does a railroad locomotive engineer differ from a professional engineer?

2. What must an engineer consider in his/her work?

3. What consequences of engineering projects have people learnt in the last ten years?

4. What structures create an impressive engineered landscape on the earth?

5. Is air pollution by highway’s effect assessed?

6. What is needed to become a professional engineer?

7. Who should engineers cooperate with in their work?

8. Why does the Egyptian government now permit public criticism of the Aswan High Dam?

9. What are the undesirable effects of the dam?

10. What measures are needed before construction is undertaken?

c. Give the definition of the following:

· civil engineering · chemistry · highways, airports · environmental engineering

· stationary parts of transportation systems · design & construction of stationary objects · theoretical science · subdivision of civil engineering dealing with water supply

d. Say whether the sentences given below are:

· True:

· False:

· Not given:

1. Engineer operates a train.

2. Economic point of view is important in construction.

3. Dams, bridges, highways are part of the natural environment.

5. The increased salinity is related to the construction of the bridge.

6. Engineering profession has nothing to do with theoretical

knowledge.

7. Highways, airports, port facilities and roadbeds for railroads are

temporary parts of transportation systems.

8. Military engineering was a subdivision of civil engineering.

9. Many structures of ancient times were built with much less

strength than modern standards require.

10. A modern civil engineer does not necessarily need to know

about new materials.

2. Analyze the details:

a. Complete the following sentences:

1. A water supply system … 2. The aqueducts of Rome.. 3. Civil engineering deals with … 4. Engineers must … 5. The dam … 6. Bridges, skyscrapers, and highways …

a. have survived from ancient times. b. involves flow and storage of water. c. create an engineered environment. d. blocked the flow of silt down the river. e. the design and construction of objects. f. consider the financial realities of the project

b. Summarize the information about civil and military engineering and fill

in the table:

A branch of engineering	Type of structure

c. Find in the Texts and read information about:

· empirical information

· the first ancient document on engineering

· the example of military engineering

· stationary objects

· subdivisions within the field of civil engineering

· the usage of the word “engineer” in English

· the most visible part of science

· environmental impact studies

· the environmental problems caused by Aswan Dam

d. Match each type with its scope:

Type of engineering	Scope
· sanitary · hydraulic · military · structural · environmental · civil	a. design and construction of objects b. water supply, water purification and sewer systems c. permanent structures d. the flow of water and other fluids e. temporary structures

e. Summarize the information about civil engineering and its public

benefit

Text C.

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