Engineers are suppose to be amenable to one another and that is the case for a majority of the time but when one has so much pride in their line of world they should feel the need to be better than the surrounding engineers. As a Civil engineering major and future civil engineer I feel an immense pride in my work and although it might not always be true I should think it is more important than engineers with a different discipline.
Civil Engineers are often compared to mechanical engineers even though they could not be more different. The schooling for the two degrees starts off similarly but diverges when civil goes to static engineering. Basically this means that civil engineers want to make things, like bridges, stay in place for as long as possible. This requires a lot of measurements and testing to find the perfect balance of forces. On the other hand mechanical engineers strive to find how to make things move for the longest amount of time by find the path of least resistance which is the goal during the production of electricity, to use the least energy to create the most energy. This is demonstrated by the giant metal wind turbines that can be seen on a trip to northern Michigan. The turbines use some energy to spin the wings and the wind does the rest. Anyway, that is where these two disciplines diverge and never come back together.
I would not exactly say there is a rivalry between civil and mechanical engineers but there is definitely a ongoing completion between the two and personally I cannot wait to participate for team Civil.
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- Admin. "Civil or Mechanical Engineeering." Genwis.com. Genwis, 10 Aug. 2015. Web. 17 Apr. 2017.
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