Civil engineering is arguably the oldest engineering profession in the world.
Civil engineers have been involved for many centuries in helping people throughout the world build and maintain the basic infrastructure in which they live. This has included designing and building everything from pyramids in Egypt to modern transportation systems. The technology that civil engineers use has similarly advanced over the same centuries. With the advent of modern computers, civil engineers now have access to technology at an unprecedented scale. These technological advances are very exciting, but too often engineers forget that technology is a tool-a way to get things done better for the client.