History of civil engineerin

Engineering has been an aspect of life since the beginning of human existence. The earliest practices of Civil engineering may have commenced between 4000 and 2000. C. In ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia when humans started to abandon a nomadic existence, creating the need for a shelter. During this time the transport began to increase its importance, which led to the development of the wheel and sailing.

Until the modern age there is no clear distinction between civil engineering and architecture, and the term engineer and architect suffered variations referring to the same person, even intercambiándose.7 Building the Pyramids of Egypt between 2700 and 2500 BC could be considered the first samples of large constructions. Other historic buildings include the water management system of Qanat, 8 Ictino the Parthenon in Ancient Greece (447-438 a.), The Appian Way by Roman engineers or the Great Wall of China in 220 BC, or irrigation works in Anuradhapura. Of all the ancient civilizations perhaps the most developed in civil engineering was the Romans who pioneered the construction of a network of roads, aqueducts, harbors, bridges, dams and sewers

In the eighteenth century, the term civil engineering was coined to incorporate all the engineering as opposed to civil use of military engineering (artillery, ballistics, building defenses ...). In 1747 the school's oldest civil engineering world is created, the École nationale des ponts et chaussées in Paris, which continues today. The first self-proclaimed civil engineer was John Smeaton who constructed the lighthouse Eddystone.4 6 In 1771 Smeaton and some colleagues formed the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers, a group of professionals who met daily to discuss their profession. Through these meetings, professional societies we know today were formed.