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Civil engineering plays an important role in the development of a country or a place it incorporates building designing and maintaining structures like hospitals canals roads dams etc it is pivotal in economic and over all growth of a place such selected concepts that redefine the subject have been presented in this text. Designed for introductory courses introduction to civil engineeringserves as both a textbook and a professional guide it addresses all aspects of education and professional preparation for civil engineers beginning with major technical areas and attributes and concluding with hiring opportunities. Civil engineering also comes to the fore when social changes foster new development in the 1950s and 1960s much business growth was created by the construction of the interstate highway system. 71 introduction civil engineering is one of the oldest and broadest engineering professions it focuses on the infrastructure necessary to support a civilized society the roman aqueducts the great european cathedrals and the earliest metal bridges were built by highly skilled forerunners of the modern civil engineer