If one is generous with definition, it will be possible to claim that engineering is one of the oldest human activities, and civil engineering in particular is the basis of urban development and civilization.
All engineering upto the19th century grew out of simple handcraft of the new stone age and it has had a more or less a continuous history.
In a primitive form,it may maintain some sort of existance through the dark ages and unlike academic activities,it retained its essential character after the renaisance.
But looking back over the relative short time in some area of the world,there is a relization of a greater change in engineering philosophy from any point.
It is difficult to pin down exactly how the changes came about.perhaps,it is normal maturing process.
It may have been the asimilation of the hard lessons of experience.
It seems there is no one thing that can be identified as causing the change but rather a combination of many things in which there is no space to mention.
What is important is that the change had occured.
The change is this ,engineering is so much more than one realises an undergraduate.
There the concern is with theorical engineering tool with there bases,structures and usage.
The technique of mathematice,physis, chemistry and the advance derrivatives such as electricity,thermodynamics,structural analysis and mechanics that become familier to the engineering student.
one became adapted at reasoning, defining problems and applying proven methods for solving problems.
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