文档介绍：土木工程专业外语 English for special purposes (ESP) in civil engineering
School of Civil Engineering
Hao Zhang PhD.
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Contact Information:
Tel.:
E-mail: (Preferred)
QQ:147371854
Office：交通应急保障中心 807
专业外语学****群：116885151
Main research feild: Bridge&Structure Engineering, Structural Health Monitoring
If you need any help, please feel free to contact with me. You are welcome to my office anytime.
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Requirement:
If you have urgent matters and you cannot come to my class, please let me know, otherwise, you will be regarded as absent.
If you are absent three times, you won’t have the right to take the final examination. It means that you cannot get the credit of this course.
Please keep silence during lecture.
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1. Course Introduction
Objectives in this course
To consolidate the ability to use the English language in the following designated fields, and
To have a considerately profound knowledge of
Construction materials, highway engineering, bridge engineering, and tunnel engineering, esp.,
The terms, processes, and the advanced technical know
How in design, construction, and maintenance in the these fields
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1. Course Introduction
Charecaters of this course
（1）wide
（2）Miscellaneous
（3）long term
The status of this course in your specialized system
Improving comprehensive ability
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1. Course Introduction
工程------engineering
航天工程-----aerospace engineering
农业工程-----agricultural engineering
建筑工程-----architectural engineering
机械工程-----mechanical engineering
土木工程-----civil engineering
工程师-------engineer
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Civil Engineering
1. Definition: the practical application of theoretical sciences, such as physics or chemistry, for the benefit of mankind (most simple but not defining).
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the construction and design of public and private sector works such as bridges, roads, dams and buildings.