Civil Engineering Knowledge Quiz Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

Nathaniel Henry Hutton was a civil engineer on routes for the Pacific Railroad Surveys and a wagon road used by the Butterfield Overland Mail in the years before the American Civil War.

British civil engineer Thomas Page, who designed Westminster Bridge, suggested placing a submerged tube between England and France to be used as a tunnel.

although Carl Emil Krarup was originally a civil engineer, he was responsible for the first ever continuously loaded submarine telecommunication cable.

Leif J. Sverdrup was a immigrant from Norway to the United States who became a civil engineer and led the project to build the 17 mile-long Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, named one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World after completion in 1964.

Guido Verbeck, a Dutch-born foreign advisor in the Meiji government of Japan from 1859-1898 arrived as a missionary after almost dying of cholera while working as a civil engineer in Arkansas.

English civil engineer James Trubshaw's straightening method used on Wybunbury's St Chad's tower in 1832 was later used to stabilise the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Davidson used his civilian experience as a civil engineer to improve his battalion's trenches during the First World War.

civil engineer George Matthew McNaughton was involved with the construction of Silent Valley Reservoir in Northern Ireland.

Civil Engineering Knowledge Quiz

1 At the Norwegian Institute of Technology (now the ________), the tradition with a NTH Ring goes back to 1914, before the Canadian iron ring.

2 This is because the higher educational system is not fully adopted to the international standard graduation system, since it is treated as a ________.

3 What type is thing is Civil engineer?

4 Traditionally, students were required to pass an entrance ________ on mathematics to start civil engineering studies.

5 In the United States, most civil engineers practice in particular specialties of civil engineering, such as geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, transportation engineering, highway engineering, hydraulic engineering, ________ or environmental engineering.

6 In many countries, civil engineers are subject to ________.

7 In some places, a civil engineer may perform ________; in others, surveying is limited to construction surveying, unless an additional qualification is obtained.

8 Over time, various branches of engineering have become recognized as distinct from civil engineering, including ________, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering, while much of military engineering has been absorbed by civil engineering.

9 The formation of the civil engineer has a strong ________ and scientific base and is more theoretical in approach than the practical oriented industrial engineer (ing.) educated in a four-year program at a polytechnic.

10 This exam was abolished in 2004 for the ________, but is still organised in the French Community.

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