Journal of Engineering Education Research (공학교육연구)

Korean Society for Engineering Education (한국공학교육학회)
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How Were the American Civil Engineers Born?

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  • Kim, Deok-Ho (School of Liberal Arts, Korea University of Technology and Education)
  • 김덕호 (한국기술교육대학교 교양학부)
  • Received : 2011.08.25
  • Accepted : 2011.09.21
  • Published : 2011.09.30
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Abstract

This paper examines the birth of civil engineers in the United States. Unlike the advanced some European countries such as Great Britain or France, as a new nation America had to import high-tech technologies from them. In the process of transplantation she had mixed up the civil engineering of British style with French's. As a result, the training of the civil engineers in America had developed in various ways.

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