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civil engineering is everywhere it's in every road you drive it's in the clean water you drink it's
where you live work and play it really is all around you civil engineers help improve the lives of
millions of people every day we're going to meet three civil engineers and look at some of the
real ways that they're helping communities right now America's waterway system is home to an
entire ecosystem the animals that live in the water depend on us to keep their communities
clean this is James Wan a bird James is working to create a healthy habitat and ecosystem in
Washington DC's Potomac River he's a resident engineer for the blue Plains tunnel part of the
DC clean rivers project this tunnel project is using a massive drill that's almost 30 feet high in
over 400 feet long this is my office we're we're here for DC water working on the clean rivers
project this project is is intended to eliminate sewer overflows into the DC waterways which
ultimately go down to the Chesapeake Bay so we're cleaning up the rivers right now we're
working on a deep tunnel it's called the blue Plains tunnel and this is going to capture
stormwater underground and allow that to be treated later after a big rain event the tunnel
boring machine we're using here is an amazing piece of equipment it's it's fantastic it's a 26 foot
diameter and it bores horizontally underground like a drill and it holds back all of the earth
pressures and the hydrostatic forces that are below ground at that depth it also allows us to
install the precast rings made of concrete precast segments and that ring forms the pipe that will
be there permanently after we're finished digging the tunnel civil engineering is a it's a fantastic
profession it's it really deals with engineering all of the world around us there's infrastructure on
the surface things that people see and use every day like roadways bridges things of that nature
then there's also a tremendous amount of civil engineering below the surface that no one ever
sees and that's what we're dealing with here in mine in my view that's one of the best parts of
civil engineering is working on the underground side and it's it's so much fun I never imagined
I'd be able to work on something this cool but I always had an interest in big projects I love
being a part of it it's a great mission come to work every day excited to do this and we can't wait
to see the end result of all the hard work my name is James and I'm a civil engineer hurricanes
can destroy entire communities that then take years to rebuild Maggie Jake's is a civil engineer
who went to Haiti to help restore clean drinking water after the hurricane Maggie was forever
changed through her experiences in Haiti helping a desperate community and touching lives so
my junior year in college my professor did a presentation on his trip to Haiti and what he found
when he was there and their biggest problem was drinking water they didn't have clean water
and drinking thousands of people are dying each year because of this so he was trying to get
civil engineering students from Merrimack to travel there 2011 we traveled to he for the first time
we went to a town called Mar mom and this is where severe cholera outbreaks hit every year
there's big clinic there and we saw all the cholera tents still set up from their recent outbreak the
system was damaged by the 2010 earthquake and it was broken in a few places but the water
was relatively clean so we made a few repairs to that and they were just so grateful that we
were there because we were there we gave up hope in the United States we're really lucky to
have access to clean water and that's thanks to years of hard-working engineers my
experiences in Haiti and my later years of college really opened my eyes to how many
possibilities there really are for civil engineers to help my name is Maggie Jake's and I'm a civil
engineer baseball the crack of the bat the roar of the crowd the amazing ballparks that are
home to our national pastime meet Erin white the civil engineer in charge of designing the
hurricane-proof retractable roof at the Marlins Park in Florida this is the first roof in the world that
was designed for a category 5 hurricane weighs roughly 7 800 tons steel and it was actually
designed to be positioned in a slightly open position for the Hurricanes to let wind into the space
and then back out to decrease the vent pressure obviously anytime there's a threat of a
rainstorm during a game you have the problem with rain delay if you know Miami rains here
pretty much every day during the summer so they have the ability to close the roof very quickly
if there's an impending thunderstorm or rainstorm so there's a guarantee that the games going
to happen every night and that's extremely important the mechanization is very efficient it's
designed so it only costs about ten dollars in electricity to move the roof open and close so early
on the design we tried to establish what the minimum height of the roof over the playing field
actually is so we scoured the internet and found some equations that are put out by NASA I
believe for the flight of a batted ball and through those equations you can actually calculate the
plight of the batted ball and all different angles of the ball leaving the bat so it goes straight up in
the air goes straight horizontally or some nice trajectory of a line drive and so we actually
created those shapes early on and put them over the playing field to make sure that the shape
of the roof that was above the playing field would never come in contact with we really interact
with a lot of people so there's a common conception that engineers just kind of go in the in their
office and work by themselves doing calculations but that couldn't be further from the truth I'm
Erin white I'm a civil engineer civil engineers have cool jobs they're creative in innovative people
they make an impact and change lives making our world a better place the bottom line if you
want an amazing career that makes a difference then do something real be a civil engineer .

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