See course website via CULearn. Helpful links for each assignment are:

Homework 1: Overview

Basic Civil Engineering description from Engineer Your Life

Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century, Second Edition, ASCE

The Vision for Civil Engineering in 2025, ASCE

Homework 2: Sustainability

Royal Academy of Engineering, Engineering for Sustainable Development: Guiding Principles
Report Card for America's Infrastructure

Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure
ASCE and Sustainability
US EPA basic information
United Nations Division for Sustainable Development
Greenroads, sustainability rating system for roadway design and construction
I-LAST, Illinois - Livable and Sustainable Transportation Rating System
New York State DOT, Green Leadership in Transportation Environmental Sustainability
US Federal Highway Administration, pavement Life-Cycle Cost Analysis software

Homework 3: Team Bridge Design

West Point Bridge Designer Home Page
Steel Construction.org, bridges carbon calculator
National Steel Bridge Alliance, Steel Bridge Design Handbook

Homework 4: Curriculum and Profession

Link to CU CVEN advising guide

Homework 5: Engineering Ethics

American Society of Civil Engineers Code of Ethics
NSPE Ethics
Online Ethics Information - case studies, codes, etc.
Engineering Ethics Case-of-the-Month

Homework 6: Civil Engineering Disasters, Controversies, and Wonders

Collapse of I-35W Bridge, Minneapolis, MN, 2007, NTSB report
New York World Trade Center Twin Towers Disaster, 2001, NIST Final Reports
New Orleans hurricane protection system failure during Katrina, What Went Wrong and Why, ASCE report
Coal Ash storage pond dam failure, TN, 2008, root cause analysis; other documents on clean-up

US 36 Denver-Boulder corridor project, EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) and Record of Decision

Sutong Bridge, China; outstanding civil engineering project from ASCE in 2010

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Erin Fltcher, civil/structural

Deirdre McShane, civil/structural

Liz Bobe, civil/environmental

Larry M. Coons, civil/water/geotech/environ

Yu-ting Guilaran, civil/environmental

John Kittelson, civil/water

Cheeta Soga, civil/water

Keith Laube, civil/geotechnical

Chris Spargur, civil

Javad Valleie, civil

Other Lists and Profiles of Engineers:
ASCE's 2011 New Faces of Civil Engineering, one with her MS degree from CU civil engineering!

Sloan Career Cornerstone Center, 17 different civil engineer profiles

Julia Morgan, first woman with Civil Engineering degree

Famous Engineers

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These are very old, rough notes from 2004 or earlier. Notes needed for 2011 will be posted on the course website for enrolled students via CULearn.

Overview slides

Profession

Ethics

Environmental Engineering

Water Resources

Structural Engineering

Transportation Engineering

Geotechnical Engineering

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National Society of Professional Engineers

American Society of Civil Engineers

Institution of Civil Engineers

National Council of Structural Engineers Association



Projects recognized by the ASCE as outstanding

Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century, as selected by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), including: #11 - Interstate Highways; #4 - Safe and Abundant Water

Day In the Life of a Structural Engineer

Five reasons to become an engineer: engineering impacts everyone; America needs engineers to fuel the economy; engineers are among the highest paid college graduates; engineers become leaders (among SMP 500 CEOs, the most common undergraduate degree is engineering - 22%); it's cool!

Web Sites on the Three Gorges Dam

China Embassy list of articles

PBS special

Detailed information in various chapters

International Rivers Network

List of Links from I Civil Engineer