UNIT 4 TEXT QUESTIONS
Review Questions
1. What would environmental engineering have in common with coastal
engineering? How would they differ? Environmental engineering and
coastal engineering are two civilengineering that its goal is protect the
environment. The maindifference between these two sub-disciplines is
that the second one isfocused on sea and water whereas the first one
works to get ageneral world healthy.
2. What is the engineering design process? It is a strategy that an engineer
follows to build a product. This is themost important part when creating a
model or invention becausewithout any idea there is nothing. That’s why
design process is soimportant and it requires a high creative skill
3. Why is surveying so important to civil engineers? Because before
building nothing, it is important to know perfectlywhere are you working.
The curves, points and overall shape of theland must be known by the
engineer before starting building. Withsurveying, engineers reach a
documented map where there isexplained all they need to know about a
land so they are able to startbuilding
4. List three benefits of creating a model. The benefits of creating a model
is that it is a concrete, tangible representation of an object that has
actual representation of the end result.
5. Why is the career outlook so bright for those in engineering? Engineers
are needed to take existing resources and knowledge and make
something useful out of it. It always has been needed and will always be
needed.
Critical Thinking Questions
1. Find an example of a civil engineering project in your town or
area. Describe it and explain how it serves the community. In the last 2
months the city council has been working on expanding the train station
in our neighborhood "Sant Andreu", it does so because more and more
