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Civil Engineering Schools Can Prepare You For Important Positions   A Civil Engineering Career   Poll Shows that UK Civil Engineers are Worried About Climate Change Conduct Unbecoming: Putting civilian eye on sheriff A vast majority of King County Council members said Monday that they will approve the creation of an Office of Independent Oversight to focus on citizen complaints and disciplinary issues at the Sheriff's Office. Of nine council members, only one -- Reagan Dunn -- said he was unsure how he will vote. The remaining members said the only question remaining is what form the new office will take. "We will have oversight," said council Chairman Larry Phillips, a Seattle Democrat. "It will be independent." "There needs to be clarity for citizens -- where they can go," said Republican Kathy Lambert. "There is a need for the officers, an assurance they will be treated fairly." The near-unanimity on the council came after a 10-member blue-ribbon panel issued its report to the council Monday, calling for independent oversight and other sweeping reforms. read more. South Africa: Aveng Hangs Holcim Out to Dry CONSTRUCTION group Aveng, which reported sterling annual results yesterday, is in no hurry to decide whether to give partner Holcim's mooted empowerment deal the go-ahead. Aveng would take "however long it is necessary" to consider its options against the sustainability of the deal and its effect on future funding requirements for Holcim SA expansion projects, among other things, said Aveng CE Carl Grim (pictured). . read more. Simulating September 11 Researchers at Purdue University have created a simulation that uses scientific principles to study in detail what likely happened when a commercial airliner crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower on September 11, 2001. The simulation could be used to better understand which elements in the building's structural core were affected, how they responded to the initial shock of the aircraft collision, and how the tower later collapsed from the ensuing fire fed by an estimated 10,000 gallons of jet fuel, said Mete Sozen, the Kettelhut Distinguished Professor of Structural Engineering in Purdue's School of Civil Engineering. It took about 80 hours using a high-performance computer containing 16 processors to produce the first simulation, which depicts how the plane tore through several stories of the structure within a half-second, said Christoph M. read more.

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