6.what is civil engineering?( a fantastic look)

hey guys check this out.
http://whatiscivilengineering.csce.ca/

5.How a product is standarised?

To know the information about how a product is stadarised please click the following link.
http://bis.org.in/cert/procert.htm

4.Structure of the day listing.

1.aqueduct of rome's
2.Palm island
3.hoover dam
4.bruj dubai (tallest man-made structure ever built)
5.Taj mahal
6.Beijing National Stadium " birds nest"
7.THE AKASHI-KAIKYO SUSPENSION BRIDGE - JAPAN
8.kansai international airport

3.Quotations on civil engineering.

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams

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Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not mean to suggest that engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer.
- British Engineer to the Royal Aeronautical Society, 1922.

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A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible
- Freeman Dyson

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A great bridge is a great monument which should serve to make known the splendour and genius of a nation; one should not occupy oneself with efforts to perfect it architecturally, for taste is always susceptible to change, but to conserve always in its form and decoration the character of solidity which is proper.
- Jean Peronnet

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An engineer is someone who is good with figures, but doesn’t have the personality of an accountant.
- An Arts graduate’s view of engineers

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Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.
- John Prebble

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A theory may be so rich in descriptive possibilities that it can be made to fit any data.
- Phillip Johnson-Laird

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Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance.
- Dr AR Dykes

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Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice.
- Ove Arup

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Engineering refers to the practice of organizing the design and construction [and, I would add operation] of any artifice which transforms the physical world around us to meet some recognized need.
- GFC Rogers

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Engineers … are not mere technicians and should not approve or lend their name to any project that does not promise to be beneficent to man and the advancement of civilization
- John Fowler

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Engineers … are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch them is imperative. Thus it is the essence of modern engineering not only to be able to check one’s own work but also to have one’s work checked and to be able to check the work of others.
- Henry Petroski

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Experience serves not only to confirm theory, but differs from it without disturbing it, it leads to new truths which theory only has not been able to reach.
- Dalembert

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2.Study from iit, web courses, nptel.

Introduction

The main objective of NPTEL program is to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by developing curriculum based video and web courses. This is being carried out by seven IITs and IISc Bangalore as a collaborative project. In the first phase of the project, supplementary content for 129 web courses in engineering/science and humanities have been developed. Each course contains materials that can be covered in depth in 40 or more lecture hours. In addition, 110 courses have been developed in video format, with each course comprising of approximately 40 or more one-hour lectures. In the next phase other premier institutions are also likely to participate in content creation.

Five major engineering disciplines have been covered in this project so far (NPTEL Phase I) at the undergraduate (B.E./B.Tech) level.

1. Civil Engineering
2. Computer Science and Engineering
3. Electrical Engineering
4. Electronics and Communication Engineering
5. Mechanical Engineering

In addition, a number of core curriculum courses common to all engineering programmes such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, management, electronics, language etc. have also been included.

Students and teachers of Information Technology and Computer Applications will also find a number of courses from the above that are useful for their studies or for supplementing their lectures.

The project in its first phase (2003-2007) has been fully supported by a grant from the Ministry of Human Resource Development.


For more details on the background to NPTEL, clicck on this picture , and to navigate to the page of civil engineeirng.

1.Why e-civil ?

CIVIL ENGINEERING ( seeing is believing)

As I always feel the need of advance method of learning,
for this traditional branch, during our initial semester .
For inducing interest in this field i finally came up with this idea,
i.e learning through net.
as oscar wild says "a cynic is one who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing".
There are lot of items related to civil engineering on internet (the junkyard).
Here is the platform for you to choose the right thing , discuss for the best ,
You are free to post your valuable comment .
As in cusat i always feel there is a communication gap among the students of different session,
more precisely between juniors and seniors.
so this blog can be used as the noticeboard of S.O.E. ,Cusat ( division of civil engineering ) .
so i request to all my juniors and seniors to post their valuable comments
and links regarding civil engineering.

If any body want to let us know the valuable informations
regarding-

1. projects.
2. case study.
3. free e book.
4. papers.
5. interesting news.
6. awards .
7. scholarship.
8. company.
9. new advancements.
10. future scope of any related field.

They are warmly welcomed.

keep in mind one thing.
if u help today u will be helped tomorrow.
u can post e books or any related file to me at -
rishikesh1221@gmail.com