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Associate Professor Karan Venayagamoorthy celebrates the opening of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Colorado State University. September 22, 2016
Civil Engineering Students set up a surveying exhibit. The back reads, "Exhibit of Engineering Surveying instruments. 1st Engineering Bldg on right - 1907-1916 Old engineering bldg on left."
1910-1919
Repository Information:
Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, 101 Conrad Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, archives.msu.edu
Subjects:
Michigan State University -- Civil Engineering -- Classes -- Surveying
Michigan State University -- Buildings -- Engineering
Resource Identifier: A000416.jpg
Like most other civil engineering students, Trevor Walker’s hectic schedule involves passing, playing and sometimes scrambling. His nimble mind and keen eye for detail prove handy for his college football career as well. In December 2009, the NCAA Big 12 Conference recognized his abilities in both the classroom and the field when they named him to its Academic All-Big 12 football team. A senior specializing in geotechnical engineering from Mt. Pleasant, Tex., Trevor qualified by maintaining a 3.20 or better grade point average and lettering in Longhorn football.
civil engineering has a long tradition in my family...this solution is typical for my grandpa and his brother ;-) Don't imitate, innovate.
Dernière tranche de l'aménagement du contournement de Malzéville entre la rue Pasteur et le viaduc Louis Marin.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Villes : Malzéville (54220) / Saint-Max (54130)
Durée des travaux : 2020 → 2021
Inauguration : 18/12/2021
Williams took home the crown at last year's Miss Auburn University Scholarship Pageant. She recently published the Miss Auburn University Cookbook as part of a local hunger initiative to support the East Alabama Food Bank.
Poids en ordre de marche : 44 900 - 59 400 kg
Hauteur de travail : 23 m
Démolition de la résidence pour personnes âgées Anatole-France qui enjambé la rue Anatole France au Havre.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Normandie
Département : Seine-Maritime (76)
Ville : Le Havre (76600)
Adresses : rue Anatole France / rue Raspail
Fonction : Logements
Déconstruction : juin 2021 → septembre 2021
Niveaux : R+6
Hauteur : ≈23,00 m
Montclair, New Jersey
Established 1817
In human progress within the present century there has been no greater marvel than the operations of the Coastal Survey...
- Harper's Monthly, March, 1879
The precise system of measurements provided today by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey originated with an act of Congress under the administration of Thomas Jefferson in 1807 that funded work on "an accurate chart" of America's coastal waters. Intended to aid sea-going commerce, the first work on this project, carried out in 1816 and 1817, helped establish a complex grid of geodetic reference points on which much of our land- and sea-based navigation now depends.
Directed by Swiss-born mathematician and astronomer Ferdinand Hassler, the measurements taken by the Coastal Survey, as it was then known, followed a plan of organization that continues to serve as the foundation for the activities of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey today. A key reference point located in the New Jersey township of Cranetown, used to map the harbor waters of New York City, was designated an Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1986 to honor the pioneering work of Ferdinand Hassler and the subsequent achievements of early American surveyors.
Facts
- The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey -- an agency of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration -- currently maintains a grid of more than 500,000 benchmarks across America identified by small bronze markers imbedded in stone or concrete.
- Ferdinand Hassler first learned the system he applied to American surveying as a student at the University of Bern, where he worked in 1790s with his mentor, mathematician Johann Georg Talles, on a geodetic survey of the Canton of Bern.
- Although the system of U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey reference points is considered invaluable by most civil engineers, not all builders rely on them. Surveyors laying out various stretches of the New Jersey Turnpike, for example, used inferior reference points outside the system. The result is a series of S-curves required to correct the highway's path.
Resources
- Aaron L. Shalowitz, The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey; U.S. Department of Commerce, 1974
- Albert A. Stanley, "Hassler's legacy"; NOAA Magazine, January, 1976
- John Noble Wilford, The Mapmakers; Alfred A. Knopf, 2000
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.