Abstract
The education of our future civil engineers is incomplete without an appreciation of the men and women who created the profession of civil engineering in the late 18th and early 19th century. This paper presents an approach to the introduction of the history and heritage of civil engineering into existing course work by the use of “history modules.” This module traces our understanding of beam behavior and the development of the flexure equation. It begins in the time of Aristotle and Archimedes and ends in the mid-19th century with the publishing of Navier's, Mahan's, and Whipple's work. The first two modules dealt with the development of the truss and the Manning formula. It is my hope that additional modules will be written and packaged by ASCE for distribution to engineering faculty around the country.
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