Civil Engineering

From 1933 until his death in 1984 he worked as a professor of Civil Engineering at the University of British Columbia.

Courant's name is also attached to the finite element method, with his numerical treatment of the plain torsion problem for multiply-connected domains, published in 1943.

From 1835 he worked on Belgian railways

known to all land surveyors for his invention of the "Gunter's Chain."

was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC

was Kettelhut Distinguished Professor of Structural Engineering at Purdue University

Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40-103 AD) was a Roman civil engineer, author, soldier and senator of the late 1st century AD. He was a successful general under Domitian, commanding forces in Roman Britain, and on the Rhine and Danube frontiers.

Othmar Hermann Ammann (March 26, 1879, September 22, 1965) was a Swiss-American civil engineer whose bridge designs include the George Washington Bridge, Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, and Bayonne Bridge.

American bridge engineers

Nora Stanton Barney (née Blatch; 30 September 1883-18 January 1971) was an English-born American civil engineer, and suffragist.

Baron Furuichi Kōi (古市 公威; September 13, 1854, January 28, 1934) was a Japanese civil engineer, who was president of Kōka Daigaku, the present college of engineering of the University of Tokyo, and founding president of the Tokyo Underground Railway, "the first underground railway in the Orient".

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel ( EYE-fəl; French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ ɡystav ɛfɛl]; né Bonickhausen dit Eiffel; 15 December 1832-27 December 1923) was a French civil engineer.

Karl Imhoff (7 April 1876 in Mannheim, 28 September 1965) was a German civil engineer, author, and a pioneer of wastewater treatment used throughout the world.

Thomas Telford (9 August 1757-2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer.

John Augustus Roebling (born Johann August Röbling; June 12, 1806, July 22, 1869) was a German-born American civil engineer.

Sir William Heerlein Lindley (30 January 1853, in Hamburg, 30 December 1917, in London) was a British civil engineer.

19th-century civil engineers

Eugène Freyssinet (French: [øʒɛn fʁɛsinɛ]) (13 July 1879-8 June 1962) was a French structural and civil engineer.

Robert Maillart (16 February 1872-5 April 1940) was a Swiss civil engineer who revolutionized the use of structural reinforced concrete with such designs as the three-hinged arch and the deck-stiffened arch for bridges, and the beamless floor slab and mushroom ceiling for industrial buildings.

Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (Telugu: [moːkʂaguɳɖam ʋiʃʋeːʃʋaɾajja], 15 September 1861-12/14 April 1962), also referred to by his initials, MV, was an Indian civil engineer, administrator, and statesman, who served as the 19th Dewan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918.

William Jessop (23 January 1745-18 November 1814) was an English civil engineer, best known for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Cornelis Lely (Dutch pronunciation: [kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈleːli]; 23 September 1854-22 January 1929) was a Dutch politician of the Liberal Union and civil engineer who was Minister of Water Management and Governor of Suriname.

Fritz Leonhardt (12 July 1909-30 December 1999) was a German structural engineer who made major contributions to 20th-century bridge engineering, especially in the development of cable-stayed bridges.

Christian Menn (March 3, 1927, July 16, 2018) was a renowned Swiss civil engineer and bridge designer.

Ove Arup is considered to be among the foremost architectural structural engineers of his time.

Sir Alec Westley Skempton (4 June 1914-9 August 2001) was an English civil engineer internationally recognised, along with Karl Terzaghi, as one of the founding fathers of the engineering discipline of soil mechanics.

Indian civil engineers

George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (February 14, 1859, November 22, 1896) was an American civil engineer.

Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (; 28 March 1819-15 March 1891) was a British civil engineer.

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Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (; German: [ˈkɔnʁaːt ˈtsuːzə]; 22 June 1910-18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman.

George Stephenson (9 June 1781-12 August 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer.

Robert Stephenson , DCL (Hon. causa) (16 October 1803-12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer and designer of locomotives.

John Smeaton (8 June 1724-28 October 1792) was an English civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses.

Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva ([ˈxwan de la ˈθjeɾβaj koðoɾˈni.u]; 21 September 1895-9 December 1936), was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and a self-taught aeronautical engineer.

George Washington Goethals ( GOH-thəlz June 29, 1858, January 21, 1928) was an American military officer and civil engineer, best known for his administration and supervision of the construction and the opening of the Panama Canal.

James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820, March 8, 1887) was an American civil engineer and inventor.

Sir Benjamin Baker (31 March 1840-19 May 1907) was an English civil engineer who worked in mid to late Victorian era.

A funicular ( few-NIK-yoo-lər, f(y)uu-, f(j)ə-), or funicular railway, is a type of cable railway system that connects points along a railway track laid on a steep slope.

A levee ( or ), is an elevated ridge alongside the banks of a river, often intended to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river.

A water tower is an elevated structure supporting a water tank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a distribution system for potable water, and to provide emergency storage for fire protection.

A boat lift, ship lift, or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations, and is an alternative to the canal lock.

A guyed mast is a tall thin vertical structure that depends on guy lines (diagonal tensioned cables attached to the ground or a base) for stability.

To go left (in right-hand traffic; reverse directions in left-driving regions), vehicles first continue as one road passes over or under the other, then exit right onto a one-way three-quarter loop ramp (270°) and merge onto the intersecting road.

A hypocaust (Latin: hypocaustum) is a system of central heating in a building that produces and circulates hot air below the floor of a room, and may also warm the walls with a series of pipes through which the hot air passes.

A clock tower is an architectural structure housing a turret clock.

The City and South London Railway (C&SLR) was the first successful deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world, and the first major railway to use electric traction.

A roller coaster is a type of amusement ride employing a form of elevated railway track that carries passengers on a train through hills, turns, valleys, and other elements, to exert abnormal g-forces on the body.

Traffic cones, also called pylons, witches' hats, road cones, highway cones, safety cones, caution cones, channelizing devices, construction cones, roadworks cones, or just cones, are usually cone-shaped markers that are placed on roads or footpaths to temporarily redirect traffic in a safe manner.

The traditional use has been for land surveying, but it is also used extensively for building and infrastructure construction, and some specialized applications such as meteorology and rocket launching.

A total station or total station theodolite is an electronic/optical instrument used for surveying and building construction.

Sunshu Ao was entrusted with many endeavors of the state, and because of a large dam, reservoir, and irrigation project he had established, he is also credited as the first known hydraulic engineer of China.

He is credited with the construction of the flood banks of the river Kaveri and conquest of Tamilakam, Andhra and Sri Lanka.

He constructed the Thames Tunnel, the world's first underwater tunnel, and was the father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Joseph Baermann Strauss (January 9, 1870, May 16, 1938) was an American structural engineer who revolutionized the design of bascule bridges.

In most cases, the term "grain elevator" also describes the entire elevator complex, including receiving and testing offices, weighbridges, and storage facilities.

Retaining walls are relatively rigid walls used for supporting soil laterally so that it can be retained at different levels on the two sides.

In urban areas, flush toilets are usually connected to a sewer system; in isolated areas, to a septic tank.

This resistance change, usually measured using a Wheatstone bridge, is related to the strain by the quantity known as the gauge factor.

Thomas Farnolls Pritchard (also known as Farnolls Pritchard; baptised 11 May 1723-23 December 1777) was an English architect and interior decorator who is best remembered for his design of the first cast-iron bridge in the world.

A slurry wall is a civil engineering technique

Hubert Cecil Booth (1871-1955) of British Vacuum Cleaner and Engineering Co , inventor of the mechanically-powered vacuum cleaner, civil engineer

civil engineer, of the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania

In 1759 The Duke commissioned Brindley to construct a canal to do just that.

A dioptra (sometimes also named dioptre or diopter, from Greek: διόπτρα) is a classical astronomical and surveying instrument, dating from the 3rd century BC. The dioptra was a sighting tube or, alternatively, a rod with a sight at both ends, attached to a stand.

A turnbuckle, stretching screw or bottlescrew is a device for adjusting the tension or length of ropes, cables, tie rods, and other tensioning systems.