Civil Engineering: Technical Specialties

I. ______________________________________

As a __________ engineer, you will be a builder of our future. The construction phase of a project is the first visible result of a design. Using your technical and management skills, you will turn designs into reality - on time and within budget. You will use your knowledge of construction methods, equipment, and principles of financing, planning, and managing, to turn the designs of other engineers into successful facilities.

II. _________________________________

The skills of __________ engineers are very important as we try to protect the limited resources of our planet. __________ engineers should understand physical, chemical, and biological processes to destroy toxic substances, remove pollutants from water, reduce non-hazardous solid waste volumes, eliminate contaminants from the air, and develop groundwater supplies. In this field, you may have to resolve problems of providing safe drinking water, cleaning up sites contaminated with hazardous materials, cleaning up and preventing air pollution, treating wastewater, and managing solid wastes.

 

 

III. ___________________________________

Almost all of the facilities that make up our infrastructure are in, on, or with earth materials, and __________ engineering is the discipline that deals with applications of technology to solve these problems. Examples of facilities in the earth are tunnels, deep foundations, and pipelines. Highway pavements and many buildings are supported on the earth. And earth dams, embankments, and slopes are constructed with the earth. In addition, many soil-like waste materials are located in containment areas. To design these facilities, __________ engineers must understand the principles of mechanics and mathematics and conduct analyses, which require input data to quantify the properties of the earth materials, and they can receive this information from laboratory or field tests.

 

 

IV. ______________________________________

As a __________ engineer, you will have to analyze and design structures to ensure that they are safe. They must support their own weight and resist dynamic environmental loads such as hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, and floods. Stadiums, arenas, skyscrapers, offshore oil structures, space platforms, amusement park rides, bridges, office buildings, and homes are a few of the many types of projects that __________ engineers work on. You will develop and use knowledge of the properties and behaviors of steel, concrete, aluminum, timber, and plastic as well as new and exotic materials. To control the project you will have to be on the construction site inspecting and verifying the work.

 

V. ____________________________________

Because the quality of a community is directly related to the quality of its __________system, your function as a __________ engineer will be to move people, goods, and materials safely and efficiently. Your challenge will be to find ways to meet the increasing travel needs on land, air and sea. You will design, construct, and maintain all types of facilities, including highways, railroads, airfields, and ports. An important part of __________ engineering is to upgrade our transportation capability by improving traffic control and mass transit systems, and by introducing high-speed trains and other new transportationmethods.

 

VI. ______________________________________

As a professional in this area, you will deal with the full development of a community. Analyzing a variety of information will help you coordinate projects, such as projecting street patterns, identifying park and recreation areas, and determining areas for industrial and residential growth. To ensure ready access to your community, coordination with other authorities may be necessary to integrate freeways, airports, and other related facilities. To coordinate the project successfully you will have to be people-oriented as well as technically knowledgeable.

 

VII. ________________________________________

As a ____________ engineer, you will deal with issues such as the quality and quantity of water, which is essential to our lives. You will work to prevent floods, to supply water for cities, industry and irrigation, to treat wastewater, to protect beaches, or to manage and redirect rivers. You might work on the design, construction, or maintenance of hydroelectric power facilities, canals, dams, pipelines, pumping stations, locks, or seaport facilities.

 

What key words helped you identify the specialities? Write out two or three words from each paragraph that you need to translate to get better understanding of the text. You may consult a dictionary or ask your teacher.

		Learning strategy Realizing that your pronunciation is correct helps you to feel better about the language you use and be more confident.
	Activity 2 Pronunciation

 

 

1. Match the words in the left and right columns which contain the same sound:

1. structure	a. turn
2. concrete	* ΄project - noun pro΄ject - verb   b. verif y
3. analyze	c. pavement
4. containment	d. dam
5. project*	e. solid
6. determine	f. develop
7. analysis	g. industrial

 

 

2. Put the words below in the correct column of the table according to their word stress:

 

	require, non-hazardous, analysis, properties, access, pipelines, coordinate, maintenance, substances, supplies, project, eliminate, technology, off-shore, identify, conduct, contaminants, quantify, canal

 

 

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