Civil engineers design and build America's infrastructure systems. We are the stewards of our nation’s infrastructure.
Infrastructure: the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function, such as roads, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications, and buildings and can be defined as "the physical components of interrelated systems providing commodities and services essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living conditions.
Safe: free from harm or risk, secure from threat of danger, harm, or loss.
Resilient: capable of withstanding shock without permanent deformation or rupture, tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.
Sustainability: a set of environmental, economic and social conditions in which all of society has the capacity and opportunity to maintain and improve its quality of life indefinitely, i.e., without degrading the quantity, quality or the availability of natural resources and ecosystems.
"Civil engineering is the profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and physical sciences gained by study, experience, and practice is applied with judgment to develop ways to utilize, economically, the materials and forces of nature for the progressive well-being of humanity in creating, improving, and protecting the environment, in providing facilities for community living, industry and transportation, and in providing structures for the use of humanity."
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