Contemporary Issues in Civil Engineering

This assignment focuses on contemporary issues in civil engineering as a double homework grade you are to identify ten contemporary issues in civil engineering. Please see the attached list of contemporary issues topics for an introduction to possible broad topics for consideration. Typically, these issues may have some controversy associated with them where the profession may be undecided on a stance or the public may not be convinced that the recommended policy from an engineering perspective is correct. There is no strict requirement on how you select these issues; however, their quality will be graded. You can identify and describe these issues based on personal experience, previous classes, interviews with other engineers or newspaper or professional articles. Your discussion of the issues impact on civil engineering and the public plus any supporting documentation will be submitted as the first part of the assignment.

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among the most controversial issues in disaster mitigation construction in the country is the construction of levees and their ability to mitigate coastal flooding or at least reduce it. The public has largely blamed constructors for the inability of the levees to perform exemplary during hurricanes thus leading to massive flooding in areas that are affected by the storms. The 2005 hurricane season headlined by Hurricane Katrina that led to 50 levee failures in New Orleans is mostly referred to whenever the discussion on levee construction comes up. The levee failure led to the flooding of over 80% of New Orleans, Louisiana (Sills et al., 2008). After the hurricane, a critical review of the levees presented the results that poor design and lack of maintenance were the main causes of the failure……….

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