Changing role of the civil engineer in society

Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-7

  Rubin, Robert A ^a   Quintas, Bettina ^b   Roth, Deborah ^a  

^a Postner and Rubin   (United States)

^b New York City Transit Authority   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTARY; REMOTE POSTERITY; STRUCTURAL STRENGTH; TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD;

BRIDGES; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MIRRORS; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; REMOTE CONTROL;

CIVIL ENGINEERING;

EID: 14544283297     PISSN: 10523928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1052-3928(2004)130:1(5)     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. David F. Noble, America by design: Science, technology, and the rise of corporate capitalism, 33 (1977). This paper is based upon a panel discussion held at the 2002 Construction Contracts Year in Review Conference. It is reproduced with permission from the editor of the "The Construction Contracts Law Report" where it was originally published.
2. Id. (quoting Ralph E. Flanders, "The new age and the new man," in Charles A. Beard, ed., Toward civilization, 22 (1930).
3. David P. Billington, The tower and the bridge: The new art of structural engineering, 75 (1985) (quoting from Alan Trachtenberg, Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and symbol (1965).
4. David P. Billington, The tower and the bridge: The new art of structural engineering, 75 (1985) (quoting from Alan Trachtenberg, Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and symbol (1965).
5. Id. at 108 (stating that Louis Sullivan was largely educated on his own in respect to architecture and engineering, and joined the firm of Dankmar Adler, who was also a self-educated engineer, in 1879. In 1881 they formed the firm of Adler and Sullivan).
6. Billington, supra note 3 (quoting Montgomery Schuyler, "The Bridge as monument," Harper's Weekly 27, May 1883, reprinted in American architecture and other writings 164 (William H. Jordy and Ralph Coe, eds., 1964).
7. Billington, supra note 3 (quoting Montgomery Schuyler, "The Bridge as monument," Harper's Weekly 27, May 1883, reprinted in American architecture and other writings 164 (William H. Jordy and Ralph Coe, eds., 1964).
8. Cecelia Tichi, Shifting gears: Technology, literature, culture in modem America, 118 (1987).
9. Id. (stating that "[b]y 1900 there were approximately 45,000 engineers, by 1930, 230,000, a fivefold increase).
10. Herbert Hoover, Memoirs (1951).
11. Get cite.
12. Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hiram Hill, et al., 437 U.S. 153 (1978).
13. Edward Abbey, The monkey wrench gang (1975).
14. See, 21st "Century Skyscrapers: Engineers say materials exist to build high rises resistant to assault." San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 1, 2001.