Civil Engineering

专业详情

Throughout history, civil engineers have devised and built the infrastructures necessary to human well-being and security. Today’s transport and energy networks are more complex, their constructions more audacious, their materials more varied, but still the mission remains the same: to be creative so as to provide infrastructures and systems of the highest quality.

Civil engineers do not only participate in the design, planning, and execution of infrastructures but also in their maintenance and use. Depending on the scope of the project, one and the same person can be entrusted with all of these tasks or they can be shared out as team work.

One of the civil engineers’ tasks consists of defining the size of the work. As the case may be, they succeed thanks to statics (the calculation of stresses in a structure), their expertise in the behavior of materials (resistance and deformability), their knowledge of geotechnology (soil characteristics), of hydraulics, or in the field or energy or transportation. This work increasingly relies on computer modeling tools. Besides gaining expertise in the primary building techniques, civil engineers must also demonstrate their creativity, in order to offer solutions which are able to gain the broadest possible support for their projects.