Challenge to Civil Engineering
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Volume 90, Issue 1
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This paper is a description of the scope and content of the Engineers Joint Council Engineering Research Committee Report, with particular reference to its implications for civil engineering. There has been a tremendous growth in federal support of science-based technological activities related to national security but no corresponding attention to the civilian problems brought about by urbanization and technological complexity of the economy. The engineer of the future must, at the same time, be more conscious of the interaction between technology and society and more alert to the opportunities and limitations arising from basic science. Areas of importance to the civil engineer will include: Incorporation of the quantitative techniques of economic and social analysis into engineering planning; development of a methodology for the design of data-collecting systems for control of the environment; development of a science of applying science through systematic cost-benefit evaluation of specific scientific knowledge; the automation of many design procedures; and the radical revision of classical design methods to take into account the possibilities of modern information technology.
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Journal of Professional Practice
Volume 90 • Issue 1 • January 1964
Pages: 21 - 28
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© 1964 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Jan 1964
Published online: Feb 8, 2021
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Analysis (by type)
- Business management
- Control systems
- Data analysis
- Disaster risk management
- Disasters and hazards
- Economic factors
- Engineering fundamentals
- Federal government
- Government
- Infrastructure
- Man-made disasters
- Methodology (by type)
- Organizations
- Practice and Profession
- Quantitative analysis
- Research methods (by type)
- Social factors
- Systems engineering
- Systems management
- Terrorism
- Urban and regional development
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