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• The first self-proclaimed civil engineer was John Smeaton, who constructed the Eddystone Lighthouse
• John Smeaton: The father of Civil Engineering
• In 1818 the Institution of Civil Engineers was founded in London, and in 1820 Thomas Telford became the first president
• In 1819, Captain Alden Partridge founded the first private college to teach Civil Engineering in the United States, the Norwich University
• first woman civil engineer was granted by Cornell University to Nora Stanton Blatch in 1905.
• the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers is the professional organization for civil engineers in the Philippines
• Marcial Kasilag The first civil engineer in the Philippines
• The word engineer is similar from the Latin root ingeniosus, meaning “skilled”