Road Engineering Professional English

Author: Xue Tinghe
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: This book is a higher vocational education textbook for the 21st century, divided into four parts, with a total of 17 units and two appendices. Part I covers professional basic content, including building materials, surveying, highway CAD technology, and engineering management (contracts). Part II focuses on road and transportation engineering. Part III deals with bridge and tunnel engineering. Part IV provides a summary of vocabulary, phrases, and commonly used road and bridge engineering terms for all units in the book. Most of the texts and reading materials are adapted from recent English books and journals, covering various aspects of road and bridge construction, design, and management. Each unit includes two main parts: texts and reading materials, with a set of exercises provided after each text. This book is suitable as an English textbook for higher vocational education majors in road and bridge, testing, supervision, maintenance, management, and other civil engineering fields. It is also available for secondary vocational education in transportation and civil engineering, as well as for training and learning. Additionally, it serves as a reference for professionals to improve their professional English reading and translation skills.