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Civil Engineering Civil engineering is arguably the oldest engineering discipline. It deals with the built environment and can be dated to the first time someone placed a roof over his or her head or laid a tree trunk across a river to make it easier to get across .. |
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Engineer's Day in India In remembrance of Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, the most outstanding Engineer of all times, the Engineering fraternity of India celebrates "Engineer's Day" every year on 15th of September .. |
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Worlds largest number of Engineers Oct 26, 2015, The first ever global report commissioned by the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering and to be made public on Monday has revealed that while just 20% of 16 to 17 year-olds from the UK and 30% from the USA are interested in an engineering career, in India the rate is as high as 80% - the highest in the world .. |
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Megastructures
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Palm Island, Dubai UAE 5 Km into the Persian Gulf, lie the Palm Islands, Dubai. Palm Jumeirah can even be seen from space. It is the biggest man made island in the world .. |
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Delta Works in the Netherlands
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The Oosterscheldekering The Oosterscheldekering (surge barrier) between the islands Schouwen-Duiveland and Noord-Beveland, is the largest of the 13 ambitious Delta Works series of dams and storm surge barriers, designed to protect the Netherlands from flooding from the North Sea .. |
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The Maaslandkering The Maaslandkering is a storm surge barrier on the imaginary dividing line between the Nieuwe Waterweg (New Waterway) located at Hoek van Holland and the cities of Maassluis and Vlaardingen up to the confluence of the rivers Oude Maas and Nieuwe Maas .. |
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Bridges
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Millau Viaduct The Millau Viaduct (French.. le Viaduc de Millau) is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the valley of the River Tarn near Millau in southern France .. |
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Huajiang Canyon Bridge The Huajiang Canyon Bridge is a suspension bridge in Guizhou in China. The bridge crosses the Beipan River as it passes through the deep Huajiang Canyon and is the world's highest bridge, measuring 625 metres (2,051 ft) from the bridge deck to the bottom of the gorge .. |
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History
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The Great Wall of China The Great Wall of China is an ancient series of walls and fortifications located in northern China, built around 500 years ago. Estimates of its length vary from 1,500 to 5,000 miles .. |
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The Great Pyramids of Giza Arabic: AHRAMAT AL-JIZAH, Giza also spelled GIZEH, three pyramids from the 4th dynasty (c. 2575-c. 2465 B.C.), erected on a rocky plateau on the west bank of the Nile River at Al-Jizah (Giza), northern Egypt .. |
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