Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings.

Civil Engineers are an integral part of society. It is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the naturally built environment. There are many branches of civil engineering – Architectural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, geotechnical engineering, geophysics, geodesy, control engineering, Structural Engineering, Earthquake Engineering, Transportation Engineering, earth science, atmospheric sciences, forensic engineering.

Civil engineering takes place in both the public sector from municipal or Urban Engineering, Coastal Engineering, Surveying, and Construction Engineering.to national governments etc.,

Civil engineering takes place in the private sector from individual homeowners through to international companies.