Many do not realize the importance of civil engineers within the society. By developing the infrastructure
for our society, they are basically giving shape to the history of our nations. One might ask how this
might be possible. By giving shape to the society, civil engineers are essentially building the backbone
for the world to relax on. Only by going deep into the duties that civil engineers do can one understand
the importance of their job and their many responsibilities.
Civil engineering has played a critical role in increasing the health and quality of life in the last 50 years,
From developing better water supplies, municipal sewer systems, wastewater treatment plants to the
design of buildings to protect us from natural hazards and provide health care, to improved agriculture
through water resource development and distribution projects to rapid and dramatic changes in
transportation systems, civil engineers have developed the basic infrastructure on which modern society
depends. Civil engineers were the first engineers and continue to be dedicated to technology
development for the common good and the general public.
Our work has helped reduced the death rate dramatically which is one of the principal reasons that
population has been able to grow so dramatically in the last 150 years. And as Don Roberts (retired vice
president of CH2MHill) has pointed out, the improvements in transportation alone have enabled rapid
migration of large numbers of people all over the world and increased the volume of raw materials and
finished products in international trade 800 times in the last century. Economic output has increased
over 20 times, fossil fuel 30 times and industrial production 100 times in the last century. Along with this
growth has come some undesirable environmental, health and social impacts, particularly in the last half century.
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