Universidad Politcnica de El Salvador Facultad Ingeniera y Arquitectura

Materia: Ingles Tcnico

Docente: Ing. Antonio Amaya

Alumno: Jaime Omar Barrer Ceritos BC201001

Mircoles 13 de Junio de 2012

1) WHAT CAREER ARE YOU STUDYING? Civil Engineering 2) EXPLAIN THE PROFILE THAT MUST HAVE THE PROFESSIONAL WHO HOLDS THIS CAREER? Civil engineers work for on construction, renovation and rebuilding projects. They often work alongside architects, technologists and other industry professionals. Engineers may alternate time between working in an office and visiting sites. Duties may range from reviewing government regulations and city ordinances to designing highways. 3) HOW IMPORTANT IS TO KNOW TECHNICAL ENGLISH IN YOUR PROFESSIONAL AREA? Why many of the manuals, standards (ASTM, ACI, AASTHO), programs are most of them are in English, from there I see the importance of English in my career 4) MAKE A LIST WITH AT LEAST 15 TECHNICAL TERMS USING IN YOUR PROFESSIONAL AREA AND DESCRIBE EACH OF THEM. 1) building a relatively permanent enclosed construction over a plot of land, having a roof and usually windows and often more than one level, used for any of a wide variety of activities, as living, entertaining, or manufacturing. 2) ASCE Standards provide technical guidelines for promoting safety, reliability, productivity and efficiency across all areas of civil engineering. These voluntary standards are written by experts with knowledge and expertise in a particular field. There are more than 60 published 3) concrete: an artificial, stonelike material used for various structural purposes, made by mixing cement and various aggregates, as sand, gravel, or stone with water and allowing the mixture to harden. 4) asphalt: a mixture of such substances with gravel, crushed rock, or the like, used for paving. 5) Steel: any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or lowcarbon content. 6) Roads.: a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway 7) Foundation:

the lowest division of a building, wall, or the like, usually of masonry and partly or wholly below the surface of the ground

8). Walls: any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc. 9) Additives: something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint. 10) column: a rigid, relatively slender, upright support, composed ofrelatively few pieces. 11) Beam: a rigid member or structure supported at each end, subject to bending stresses from a direction perpendicular to its length. 12) Aggregate: consisting of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means. 13) Geology. the science that deals with the dynamics and physical history of the earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the physical, chemical, and biological changes that the earth has undergone or is undergoing. 14)Structure. something built or constructed, as a building, bridge, or dam. 15) Construction. the occupation or industry of building: He works in construction.