Make the most of college -- I would like to address this as an open letter to students entering college: Congratulations! You are about to take one of the most important steps to securing a better future for yourself and your family. Here's what you need to know...

The Mindset of the Class of 2023 --  A lot can change in just 18 years, but these same 18 years also make up the mindset—or “event horizon”—of today’s entering college students. Born in 2001, these students are members of the College Class of 2023.

How Can You Win the Test-Taking Game? -- A set of simple rule that can help you do better on tests.

Everything You Need to Know About How to Study -- A complete guide to how to study with lots of information on understanding your weaknesses and how to correct them. 

Civil Engineers Make a Difference

An Explanation of the Engineering Course Fee (pdf version)

Barry LePatner, author of the book “Too Big To Fall: America's Failing Infrastructure and The Way Forward” has a website called “Save Our Bridges” where he identifies nearly 8000 bridges that have been deemed both “structurally deficient” (which means there are elements of the bridge that need to be monitored and/or repaired) and “fracture critical” (which means there is no redundancy in the structure if a member does fail). There’s only 1 bridge in the entire state of Tennessee and that’s the I-55 bridge over the Mississippi.

Below are links to other sources of information about the practice of civil engineering.

• From the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE): Infrastructure Report Card
• From the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE): Infrastructure Report Card - Tennessee
• From the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE): History and Heritage
• From the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE): Monuments and Millennium
• From the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE): ASCEville
• From the University of Memphis: What is Civil Engineering?
• From the CIVL 1101 class: What is Civil Engineering?
• Tomorrow's Talent - the engineer of the future
• Civil Engineering Resource and Career Guide from Ohio University
  (includes lots of great and interesting links)

• The Collapse of the World Trade Center: An Engineer's Perspective
• Collapse of the World Trade Center
• Engineers Explain the Collapse of the World Trade Center
• Structural failure of the World Trade Center
• Were the Pyramids built with concrete?
• Ancient roman bridge building techniques (Clonmacnoise Bridge)
• Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater's house
• The seven engineering wonders of world,
• The state of the infrastructure in the U.S.

This website was originally developed by Charles Camp for CIVL 1112.
This site is maintained by the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Memphis.
Your comments and questions are welcomed.