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Knowledge Portal Designed for Civil Engineering Professionals Today, when diversified information is exchanged across the world through the Internet, the question is how to take advantage of such mechanism as an effective tool. Especially, there are various information web sites for civil engineering IT (information technology). It is important to reserve an as wide range of channels as possible so that you can get optimum information for your own needs. From this point of view, this corner will focus on unique overseas web sites concerned with civil engineering IT. The first feature in this series is "iCivilEngineer.com," a knowledge portal specially designed for civil engineering professionals and students. Started as a Web Directory of Civil Engineering According to the web site, iCivilEngineer.com started as a web directory of civil engineering in 1999. Its goal is: 1) collect and catalog valuable civil engineering relevant Internet resources so that people can find information fast; 2) explore how to take advantage of Internet technology to serve the civil engineering community. Now iCivilEngineer.com offers the following 5 centers. News Center - It covers categories like Engineering News, IT News, Industry News, Project News, Big Project Watch, and Failure Watch. Each news item includes a headline, date, and its original news site. Clicking "More... " leads the reader to the full story at its original site. On the other hand, as to Big Project Watch and Failure Watch, brief summary and its linked site for detailed information are written with request for readers to provide information. Career Center contains services and information including Search Jobs service by regions and profession types, Post Your Resume service, Virtual Job Fair which adds job posting service, PE Exam Guide, Virtual Bookshelf by categories and purposes. IT Center contains sites of Software Guide, Freeware, Open Source, and Mobile Computing. The first three sites offer brief summaries and links for more detailed information; Mobile Computing site offers products information. Tools Center offers convenient online tools such as Unit Conversion, Local Guide, Weather, and Major stock quote.
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This article is written based on The Civil Engineering Portal site under the permission of icivilengineer.com. |
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