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From your page > It is considered the second-oldest engineering discipline after military engineering,[3] and it is defined to distinguish non-military engine
by staz 8y ago
From your page
> It is considered the second-oldest engineering discipline after military engineering,[3] and it is defined to distinguish non-military engineering from military engineering.
So not sure what you intended to mean?
- peatmoss 8y agoI’d guess to differentiate the civil / uncivil dichotomy from the civil(ian) / military dichotomy. That said, I feel that civil engineering is fairly widely understood to be a subdicipline of engineering.
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- jvkersch 8y agoIn the US/UK civil engineering is often taken to mean constructing buildings (very roughly, in a nutshell), whereas other countries (in particular continental Europe) use the meaning that you quote. So you can have a Belgian civil engineer who specializes in theoretical physics, and knows more about the Higgs boson than about "traditional" engineering topics.
- toolslive 8y agoIn Belgium, there are 'civil engineers' that know nothing about the construction of roads buildings or bridges, but are specialised in electronics, computer science, thermodynamics, ... . In the case of Lemaitre, he was studying this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_engineering