{"id":8031,"date":"2023-03-05T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/civil-engineering\/"},"modified":"2023-03-05T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T15:57:00","slug":"civil-engineering","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/civil-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-sm-12 messageContent\">\n <b>Learning Goal: <\/b>I&#8217;m working on a engineering writing question and need support to help me learn.<\/p>\n<p>Select a civil engineering project that interests you and that can be<br \/>analyzed in economic terms<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Use of tools such as cost-benefit analysis or cost-to-benefit<br \/>comparisons are encouraged but not required<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Write about the project&#8217;s economic strengths and weaknesses.<br \/>Consider economic factors in the planning, construction, and\/or<br \/>operation of the projectTopic Selection<br \/>In trying to decide what topic to select, remember that you will be<br \/>writing a thesis about it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a one-sentence statement of an opinion or<br \/>hypothesis.<br \/>It is not enough to have a personal opinion about a topic; you must<br \/>be able to defend the thesis statement with documentation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Abstract should be concise and a stand-alone summary of the paper<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Briefly include motivation (why), objective (what), approach (how)<br \/>and implication of result<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Motivation: What issues led to this work? What is the environment<br \/>that makes the work interesting?<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Objective: What did you plan to achieve in this work? What gap is<br \/>being filled?<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Approach: How did you set about achieving your aims (e.g.,<br \/>experimental method, simulation approach, theoretical approach,<br \/>combinations of these, etc.)? What did you actually do?Abstract<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Implication of result: What were the main results of the study<br \/>(including numbers, if appropriate), Why are the results important?<br \/>Where will they lead?<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Include necessary information only in 150-200 words in one paragraph<br \/>or two<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning Goal: I&#8217;m working on a engineering writing question and need support to help me learn. Select a civil engineering project that interests you and that can beanalyzed in economic terms\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Use of tools such as cost-benefit analysis or cost-to-benefitcomparisons are encouraged but not required\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Write about the project&#8217;s economic strengths and weaknesses.Consider economic factors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[185],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/8031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/8031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=8031"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=8031"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=8031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}