Family Friday: Survey
Surveying is an integral part of any construction project. At is simplest, surveying is a mapping the Earth. You and your family can do some surveying on your own with this simple experiment. ...
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Family Friday: Ocean
All of this summer heat has us dreaming of the beach! For that reason, this week’s Family Friday is about the ocean. ...
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Family Friday: Geotechnical Engineering
This Family Friday blog is full of geotechnical engineering related activities. First, kids can help geotechnical engineering Joe find his way through mountain maze. Did you know that geotechnical engineers can plan the path of tunnels through mountains? Then, there is a soil layer information and activity sheet set from Education.com....
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Family Friday: Structural Engineering
Family Friday is back with a series of activities about structural engineering! As Kiddle defines it in their kids encyclopedia, “Structural engineering is a subset of civil engineering dealing with the design and analysis of buildings and large non-building structures to withstand both the gravity and wind loads as well as natural disasters.” Read the full entry here....
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May 29, 2020
Family Friday: All About Utilities
On this week’s family-friendly blog, we’re sharing a couple of activities related to utilities engineering. The first activity is a Q&A on utilities from Get Kids into Survey. This document is full of great information and images explaining the ins and outs of mapping utilities....
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Family Friday: Printable Activities about Water
As many of our employees have picked up new roles of helping to homeschool their kids, our human resources department has been collecting and sharing kid-friendly civil engineering activities each week. It has been such a hit that we are starting a new blog series for kids!...
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