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Map of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Engineer divisions and districts. Great Lakes and Ohio River Division (LRD), located in Cincinnati. Reaches from the St Lawrence Seaway, across the Great Lakes, down the Ohio River Valley to the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. Covers 355,300 square miles (920,000 km 2), parts of 17 states. Serves 56 ...
The United States first formed a military engineering capability on 16 June 1775, when the Continental Congress established an army with a chief engineer and two assistants. Subsequently, on 16 March 1802, the Corps of Engineers was organized by the President. Today, Military Engineers are grouped separately within each of the armed services.
Tennessee Valley Authority civil engineers monitoring hydraulics of a scale model of Tellico Dam. Civil engineering is a 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 systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings ...
Military engineers construct bases, airfields, roads, bridges, ports, and hospitals. During peacetime before modern warfare, military engineers took the role of civil engineers by participating in the construction of civil-works projects. Nowadays, military engineers are almost entirely engaged in war logistics and preparedness. [1]
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works controversies; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works controversies (New Orleans) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Duluth Vessel Yard; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Superintendent's House and Workmen's Office; U.S. Army Engineer Port Repair ship; Umatilla Site
The term "civil engineer" was established by John Smeaton in 1750 to contrast engineers working on civil projects with the military engineers, [3] [4] who worked on armaments and defenses. Over time, various sub-disciplines of civil engineering have become recognized [5] and much of military engineering has been absorbed by civil engineering. [6]
The Chief of Engineers is a principal United States Army staff officer at The Pentagon. The Chief advises the Army on engineering matters, and serves as the Army's topographer and proponent for real estate and other related engineering programs. The Chief of Engineers is the senior service engineer for the Department of Defense, responsible for ...
Over the years, as the Nation's needs have changed, so have the Army's Civil Works missions. Water resources controlled by the Corps of Engineers are used for navigation, hydroelectric power generation, and recreation as well as water supply. The Corps first got involved in water supply in the 1850s, when they built the Washington DC aqueduct.