Wrocław, Poland

Civil Engineering

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Civil Engineering at UPWr

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
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University website: www.upwr.edu.pl/en

Test: check whether Civil Engineering is the right major for you!

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Answer all questions to see if Civil Engineering (Master's) is the right fit for you!

1. Are you motivated to design, analyze, and improve infrastructure such as bridges, roads, water systems, or buildings?

2. Do you want to develop advanced skills in structural analysis, geotechnics, fluid mechanics, or materials for construction?

3. Are you interested in sustainable design and resilience of infrastructure to adapt to climate change and evolving urban needs?

4. Are you willing to work with digital tools such as BIM, simulation, and modeling to plan and manage engineering projects?

5. Do you believe a two-year master’s degree will substantially increase your ability to lead complex civil engineering projects?

6. Are you interested in construction management, scheduling, cost control, and ensuring quality on large-scale sites?

7. Do you want to build competence in risk assessment, safety regulations, and lifecycle performance of infrastructure?

8. Are you prepared to collaborate with urban planners, architects, environmental experts, and stakeholders to deliver integrated solutions?

9. Are you excited by emerging trends like smart infrastructure, resilient urban systems, or advanced material usage?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a master’s in Civil Engineering?

Definitions and quotes

Civil Engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewerage systems, pipelines, and railways. Civil engineering is traditionally broken into a number of sub-disciplines. It is the second-oldest engineering discipline after military engineering, and it is defined to distinguish non-military engineering from military engineering. Civil engineering takes place in the public sector from municipal through to national governments, and in the private sector from individual homeowners through to international companies.
Engineering
Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application. See glossary of engineering.
Civil Engineering
Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don’t have to sew buttons.
Heywood Broun, in Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations: A Collection of Approximately (2012), p. 310
Civil Engineering
Mechanical Engineering is applicable rather to works connected with private enterprise, such as the designing and construction of steam machinery for the purposes of navigation and transportation, the adaptation of such machinery to mills and factories, the construction of water-wheels, the fabrication of materials, iron, steel, and brass, for the purposes of the engineer, the architect, and manufacturer ; and the manufacture of implements and machinery for agriculture, for mining, and for domestic purposes.
But the prominent feature of Mechanical Engineering, that which contributes more than any other to elevate it to the rank of a liberal or learned profession, and at the same time separates it from the science of Civil Engineering, is, that all its operations relate to power, motion, and work.
William Pettit Trowbridge (1871) The Profession of the Mechanical Or Dynamical Engineer: An Inaugural Address Before the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College. p. 5
Civil Engineering
A great bridge is a great monument which should serve to make known the splendour and genius of a nation; one should not occupy oneself with efforts to perfect it architecturally, for taste is always susceptible to change, but to conserve always in its form and decoration the character of solidity which is proper.
Jean Perronet, in A Newsletter on the History and Heritage of American Civil Engineering
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