Civil Engineering Experience and Education
Publication: Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Volume 118, Issue 1
Abstract
The professional engineering experience cannot be taught in universities. Graduates spend a certain apprenticeship period during the early years of their career. This training should be carried out under supervision of experienced engineers necessary for the background formation to professional life of potential civil engineers, 10‐15 hr of a civil engineering consultation course musts be included in the last‐semester curriculum of universities. Also, a total of six months summer practice training on a construction site will be very useful to students in understanding the theoretical knowledge given in various courses. The value of experienced engineering decision is assessed as a case study in the preliminary design of a small earth‐fill dam. Costs of the dam calculated with assumed and calculated spillway design head values. The results are compared by excluding the possible tangible and intangible benefits. The closeness of calculated and assumed design head values for this small dam indicates the importance of experience in engineering.
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Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Volume 118 • Issue 1 • January 1992
Pages: 71 - 76
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Copyright © 1992 ASCE.
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Published online: Jan 1, 1992
Published in print: Jan 1992
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