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      <title>INFRASTRUCTURE: ETYMOLOGY AND IMPORT</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The word is traceable to NATO war mobilization studies in the 1950's and to the economic development literature of low income nations shortly thereafter.  Gradually it came to be used for capital investment of all sorts - human capital as well as physical plant investment.  With so diffuse a meaning, the term tended to drop into disuse.  Now in the 1980's there is a revival in the use of the term, with a likely repeat of its evolution as discussion develops over resource allocation to such legitimate claimants as transportation facilities, flood control, water and sewer facilities, health, education, and other public sector responsibilities.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 1984 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CIVIL ENGINEERING DEGREE: EDUCATION OR TRAINING?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The limitations of the current four-year engineering curricula are examined, emphasizing the lack of liberal arts supplement to an undergraduate engineering education.  While the importance of the engineering function in society is stressed, the increasing need for more policy conscious engineers is cited.  In summary, it is suggested that the engineering degree be made a professional degree to be earned in graduate school after a liberal arts undergraduate education.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 1984 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>LIABILITY: ATTITUDES AND PROCEDURES</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The impact of individual and organizational policies concerning liability as reflected in the techniques and procedures followed by an organization is discussed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 1984 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>MANAGEMENT OF A LARGE PROJECT -- BART</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The economic, political, and sociological implications of a project the size and complexity of BART are enormous.  Its design, construction, and operation interacts with, and affects, most segments of the Bay Area's population.  As no new large rapid transit systems had been built since the early 1900's, BART, during its planning and design period, was not able to draw on existing data banks of progressive and analytical transportation design criteria, formulas, and concepts.  The BART Board of Directors decided that planning, design, and construction management would be performed by consultants under direction of the District. This decision was based on the undesirability of BART's attempting to assemble a large and diverse staff for a relatively short-term requirement, coupled with the unavailability of transit people with the necessary experience.  The BART staff included a small but strong technical group to give direction to the consultants and to clear the way in nontechnical areas to enable the consultants to carry out their directives.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 1982 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND THE TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Professional ethics in engineering, their relationship to transportation engineering or transportation planning, and the issues of transportation environmental impact and transportation safety are presented and discussed.  The role of the engineer in controlling and guiding technology is also considered.  Other issues raised include the difference between a code of ethics and a legal code, the role of an engineer as an employee on a public works project, and the professional engineer's role in the decision making process.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 1982 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PROPOSED RIGHT-OF-WAY POLICY</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Chief executive officers of organizations that purchase and manage right-of-way have a management obligation to budget resources for professional land survey engineering. Investigations by professional societies have demonstrated that current practice by these organizations is inadequate and no longer tolerable to the organization or its abutting neighbors.  The high value of land leads to litigation over questionable boundaries.  The resultant legal expenses are often greater than the cost of proper land survey engineering--sometimes greater than the value of the land. Record search, field measurement, monumentation, and drafting of legal descriptions should be equal to that required for a land title survey of any tract in the same locality.  This professional work should be performed under the supervision of a person registered or licensed to practice land surveying in the jurisdictional area within which the property is located.  Every right-of-way plat should be recorded in the same public office that all other land title records are kept.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 1980 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>INNOVATION AND THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE ENGINEER</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Innovation has two aspects: (1)Material, which results in the introduction of new products or processes; and (2)theoretical, which results in new methodology.  Both aspects of innovation are examined with reference to civil engineers in the aerospace industry, and the design of aircraft.  It is shown, by referring to a number of econometric analyses, that material innovation obtained through research and development has contributed greatly to American economic growth.  Historical examination of the finite element method of structural engineering, which arose in the aerospace industry, raises some important questions about the future role of engineers.  In particular, whether or not the engineer, through his use of the computer, may indeed be moving into some of the traditional fields of activity of the scientist, as the preceding historical analysis would seem to indicate, and if such forecasting should prove to be valid, whether this will influence the future education of the engineer.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 1978 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>RAILROADS, TRUSS BRIDGES, AND THE RISE OF THE CIVIL ENGINEER</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This article reviews a few significant aspects of nineteenth century truss bridge design, and relates the influence of bridge failures to the development of the civil engineering profession.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 1978 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRIVACY, PRIVILEGE, AND TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The increasing danger of legal entanglement for researchers who disregard the rights of human subjects used in research, in particular their right of privacy, is examined.  The broad definition of a human subject and the equally broad definition of injury are discussed.  The implications of the Privacy Act of 1974 are noted, and the critical need for a researcher-privilege statute set forth.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 1977 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>DRAMA OF INFINITE ACTS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This article discusses certain aspects of the regulations arising as a result of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), and what will be required of the professional safety engineer in interpreting and carrying out those regulations.  An initial problem is the adoption of existing National consensus standard specifications which were intended only as advisory, not mandatory, but which, to save time, were incorporated into OSHA regulations.  Such specifications have not necessarily been adequately tested in the workplace just because they were advisory, and sometimes make compliance very difficult.  This has led to confusing ad hoc decisions by OSHA inspectors.  For most purposes, performance standards are recommended, which would look to the effectiveness of the result rather than a detailed specification of the means.  It is reported that performance standards have worked well under Britain's Health and Safety at Work Act.  The professional safety engineer must assume leadership in promoting safety programs, because OSHA does not require them, as such;  he must study in depth OSHA standards and regulations, and how to interpret them;  he must contribute data and experience through the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health(NIOSH), which provides research and advice under OSHA;  he must be able to assist management in handling OSHA citations, and try to work with OSHA and NIOSH people.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 1977 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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