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BSCE – Cea_Ce_1e Civil Engineering Orientation
1.) Give at least 5 famous Civil Engineers in the 18th century.
2.) Give at least 5 modern structure that was constructed for the past 5 years

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 John Loudon McAdam
Famous as: Civil Engineer
Birthdate:September21, 1756
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Ayr, Scotland
Died: November 26, 1836

John Loudon McAdam was a Scottish road builder and civil engineer. He
devised a new method, "macadamization," for constructing roads with a smooth
hard surface using controlled materials of mixed particle size and
predetermined structure, which would be more resilient and less muddy than
soil-based tracks. He suggested that roads be constructed at a higher elevation
to improve drainage. He was also appointed the Surveyor-General of
Metropolitan Roads in Britain.

Marc Isambard Brunel

Famous as: Civil Engineer
Birthdate: April 25, 1769
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace:Hacqueville,
Normandy, France
Died: December 12, 1849
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel was a French-British engineer best known for his
contributions to Britain. He was the father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and
created the Thames Tunnel. Brunel participated in several unprofitable
endeavors. As a result, he was deeply in debt by the beginning of 1821, and in
May of that year, he was tried and sentenced to the King's Bench Jail, a
debtors' prison in Southwark.

Lazare Carnot
Famous as: (Mathematician,
Politician, Engineer, Officer,
Physicist)
Birthdate: May 13, 1753
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Nolay

Carnot was born on 13 May 1753 in the Burgundian town of Nolay to

Claude Carnot, a local judge and royal notary, and Marguerite
Pothier, his wife. He was the second oldest child of seven. Lazare
and his brother were enrolled in the Collège d'Autun at the age of
fourteen, where he focused on the study of philosophy and the
classics. He firmly believed in stoic philosophy and was profoundly
affected by Roman culture. His contributions throughout the
Napoleonic and French Revolutionary Wars won him the nickname
"Organizer of Victory." Carnot is credited with inventing novel
defensive designs for forts, such as the Carnot wall, which provided
protection against infantry and artillery assault.
 Jacques de Vaucanson
Famous as: Inventor, Engineer
Birthdate: February 24, 1709
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Grenoble
Died: November 21, 1782

Jacques de Vaucanson was a French inventor and artist who constructed the
first lathe made entirely of metal, a significant contribution to the Industrial
Revolution. The lathe is referred to as the mother of machine tools since it was
the first machine tool that led to the development of subsequent machine tools.
He is credited with designing creative and remarkable automata. Additionally,
De Vaucanson was the first person to construct an automated loom. Joseph
Marie Jacquard, who invented the Jacquard machine, refined his ideas about
the automation of the weaving process.

William Strickland
Famous as: Civil Engineer,
Architecture
Birthdate: November 1788
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Navesink, New
Jersey, United States
Died: April 6, 1854
 William Strickland was a renowned civil engineer and architect in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and Nashville, Tennessee. Strickland, a pupil of Benjamin Latrobe
and mentor to Thomas Ustick Walter, contributed to the establishment of the Greek
Revival style in the United States. William Strickland, an engineer and architect
renowned for his groundbreaking writings on railroad building, was also one of the
founders of the 19th-century Greek Revival architectural style. In addition to
designing projects such as the United States Mint and contributing to the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, he was one of the first American architectural
professors.