Engr civil

List of structural engineers

Hi! I'm wondering why you created the article List of structural engineers, when there's already a List of civil engineers which has a good number of structural engineers on it, and you've included no entries on the new list. Structural engineering is a branch of civil engineering, and the list of civil engineers isn't unmanageably long. Argyriou (talk) 18:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Response

I didn't create the list. I just recatorgized it from another page. Do I think they should be separate? Yes, they are two different professions. Do you consider Geotechnical Engineering a branch of Civil Engineering? Is this because CA licenses you that way or do you believe it to be true?

I do believe that geotechnical engineering is a branch of civil engineering, and no, not just because California licenses us that way. The borders between the different branches of civil engineering are fuzzier than the borders which separate civil from mechanical or chemical engineering, and there's more than enough overlap to consider the specialties as specialties within civil engineering, not separate branches of engineering. Harry Seed was trained as a structural engineer. Argyriou (talk) 22:45, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Point taken but I think this is more a matter of opinion than fact. As you know most if not all branches of engineering started either from military engineering or civil engineering and eventually broke away as that specialty became more refined. Most of these changes have taken place in the last 100 years and are still evolving.

I believe structural engineering and geotechnical engineering as well, are on their way to becoming separate fields of engineering. For example, where I went to school Geotechnical Engineering was considered a separate specialty that was taught along side geology, mining, and petrolium engineering and was not in the Civil Engineering department.Engr civil 19:39, 13 February 2007 (UTC)