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Accessible to general readers as well as practitioners, this volume presents brief biographies of 32...
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Accessible to general readers as well as practitioners, this volume presents brief biographies of 32 outstanding American civil engineers from the late 1700s to the present. Organized into eight chronological sections, the profiles offer personal information, along with commentary by the subjects on issues such as why they became civil engineers and how the profession might be improved. Many of the biographies appeared previously in Weingardt's "Engineering Legends" column in the American Society of Civil Engineers' Leadership and Management in Engineering journal from 1999 to 2004. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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