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Civil engineering is the grandparent of all engineering.

In its early days during the Roman Empire, civil engineering was synonymous with military engineering. Their kinship was still strong when the first engineering school in America was founded in 1802 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. USMA graduates planned, designed, and supervised the construction of much of the nation’s early infrastructure, including roads, railways, bridges, and harbors, and mapped much of the American West.

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