Editing Civil engineering (section)

{{short description|Engineering discipline focused on physical infrastructure}}
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[[File:TVA engineers monitoring Tellico Dam model.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Tennessee Valley Authority]] civil engineers monitoring [[hydraulics]] of a scale model of [[Tellico Dam]]]]

'''Civil engineering''' is a [[regulation and licensure in engineering|professional engineering]] discipline that deals with the [[design]], [[construction]], and [[maintenance]] of the physical and naturally [[built environment]], including [[public works]] such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, [[sewage system]]s, pipelines, [[structural element|structural components]] of buildings, and railways.<ref>{{cite web |title=History and Heritage of Civil Engineering |publisher=[[American Society of Civil Engineers]] |url=https://live.asce.org/hh/index.mxml?versionChecked=true |access-date=2007-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070216235716/http://live.asce.org/hh/index.mxml?versionChecked=true |archive-date=16 February 2007 |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://ice.org.uk/careers-and-professional-development/what-is-civil-engineering |title=What is Civil Engineering |date=2022-01-14 |publisher=[[Institution of Civil Engineers]] |access-date=2017-05-15}}</ref>

Civil engineering is traditionally broken into a number of sub-disciplines. It is considered the second-oldest engineering discipline after [[military engineering]],<ref name="CSCE">{{cite web |title=What is Civil Engineering? |publisher=[[Canadian Society for Civil Engineering]] |url=https://whatiscivilengineering.csce.ca/civil1.htm |access-date=2007-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812030647/http://whatiscivilengineering.csce.ca/civil1.htm |archive-date=12 August 2007 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and it is defined to distinguish non-military engineering from military engineering.<ref name="eb">{{cite encyclopedia | title=Civil engineering |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |url=https://britannica.com/eb/article-9105844/civil-engineering |access-date=2007-08-09}}</ref> Civil engineering can take place in the public sector from municipal [[public works]] departments through to federal government agencies, and in the private sector from locally based firms to [[Fortune Global 500|''Fortune'' Global 500]] companies.<ref name="sector">{{cite web |title=Working in the Public Sector Versus Private Sector for Civil Engineering Professionals |url=https://engineeringmanagementinstitute.org/tcep-119-public-sector-versus-private-sector |website=The Civil Engineering Podcast |publisher=Engineering Management Institute |date=June 5, 2019}}</ref>