Engineered systems built at civil infrastructure scale: bridges, dams, tunnels, water-supply and irrigation networks, and the large fixed structures that a community or region depends on. Belongs here: a specific bridge, dam, aqueduct or comparable piece of infrastructure considered as an engineered system rather than as the career of the engineer who designed it. Does not belong here: the individual mechanical or electrical components embedded inside a civil structure, such as its pumps or its power supply, grouped under Mechanical or Electrical Engineering where the component itself, not the structure, is the subject.
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1. Wikipedia: Engineering
WikipediaIntroduction, traditional disciplinesQuote, Introduction, traditional disciplines
The traditional disciplines of engineering are civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical.
2. Wikipedia: Civil engineering
WikipediaHistory, As a profession, 1747 first institutionQuote, History, As a profession, 1747 first institution
In 1747, the first institution for the teaching of civil engineering, the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, was established in France
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