An influential journal elevating the civil engineering profession and raising its image in the engineering league

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Labi
Keyword(s):  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Influential Journal

Constructing a Transit as a Project in Geometry

1931 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 444-447
Author(s):  
T. L. Engle ◽  
Max Connelly ◽  
Issac C. Elston
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Pass Through

Psychologists may call it by various names, but teachers of mathematics know that most boys pass through a stage of development which might be called the "civil engineering" period. Fortunately for the engineering profession and for the individuals, the majority change to other fields. However, during this period of development, the interest in engineering is real and it may be used to advantage by the high school teachers of mathematics, especially in the geometry courses.

scholarly journals Canadian Civil Engineers Pre-1850: Professionals Before Professionalization

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 73-95
Author(s):  
Richard White
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Public Works ◽  
The Other ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Civil Engineers

Abstract This article argues for a thorough re-thinking of the origins of the civil engineering profession in Canada. Working from a variety of sources, the richest being the public works papers in the National Archives of Canada, the author has assembled a list of forty-three men who practised as civil engineers in Canada before the railway boom of the 1850s and for whom biographical details are known. They are overwhelmingly men of the upper middle class who received good academic educations before their professional apprenticeships in engineering. Almost none were tradesmen. The civil engineering profession thus appears of much higher status, and much closer to the other traditional gentlemanly professions of the early nineteenth century, than others have recognized. The author goes on to explore to what extent this first generation of civil engineers might be considered true professionals, and what their existence suggests about the society in which they lived and practised.

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