Why do we “learn” about the history of river management and its relation with life of people?
■What is Civil engineering? ⇔ Military engineering
1)”Disaster” exists only the place where there is “life of people”
→ Civil Engineering is the technology acquired and developed from experience to protect people’s life from the menace.
→ Civil Engineering is the technology based on scientific proof
2)Civil Engineering is to understand nature and support conditions of people’s life, to make people’s life safer and better, and to establish public property which relates closely to people’s life.
3)Civil Engineering is the technique beyond the times and accumulation of ancient people’s knowledge.
4)Where “people” get together, there will be “society”, and also “fight over the profit”
→ Civil Engineering is to understand, solve and ease the problem, and prevent the problem for safe society. Civil Engineering has a great responsibility related to the overall society.
■What is required for the people who works in civil engineering field?
・Historically, people in civil engineering had worked with great spirit that one should work for country, for human being, with no selfish motive.
・”What is the Civil Engineering trying to provide to the current and future society?” is the big problem
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・Will you be an civil engineer who just follow the image of new society given by somebody, or will you be a specialist who will build the new society and civilization by yourself ?
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・For this purpose,
1)You should have a spirit to challenge to the problem without answer.
2) You should have great interest to “Society” and “People”.
3) Young civil engineers should train themselves to think what kind of society or civilization do they want to build.
4) First of all, you have to make yourself ready to state your own thoughts and suggestions.