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Universidad Politécnica de El Salvador
Facultad Ingeniera y Arquitectura

Materia:
Ingles Técnico

Docente:
Ing. Antonio Amaya

Alumno:
Jaime Omar Barrerá Ceritos BC201001Miércoles 13 de Junio de 2012

1) WHAT CAREER ARE YOU STUDYING?
Civil Engineering
2) EXPLAIN THE PROFILE THAT MUST HAVE THE PROFESSIONAL WHO HOLDS THIS CAREER?
Civil engineers work for onconstruction, renovation and rebuilding projects. They often work alongside architects, technologists and other industry professionals. Engineers may alternate time between working in an office and visitingsites. Duties may range from reviewing government regulations and city ordinances to designing highways.
3) HOW IMPORTANT IS TO KNOW TECHNICAL ENGLISH IN YOUR PROFESSIONAL AREA?
Why many of themanuals, standards (ASTM, ACI, AASTHO), programs are most of them are in English, from there I see the importance of English in my career
4) MAKE A LIST WITH AT LEAST 15 TECHNICAL TERMS USING IN YOURPROFESSIONAL AREA AND DESCRIBE EACH OF THEM.
1) building 
a relatively permanent enclosed construction over a plot of land, having a roof and usually windows and often more than one level, used for anyof a wide variety of activities, as living, entertaining, or manufacturing.
2) ASCE Standards
provide technical guidelines for promoting safety, reliability, productivity and efficiency across allareas of civil engineering. These voluntary standards are written by experts with knowledge and expertise in a particular field. There are more than 60 published
3) concrete:
an artificial,stonelike material used for various structural purposes, made by mixing cement and various aggregates, as sand, gravel, or stone with water and allowing the mixture to harden.
4) asphalt:
a mixture ofsuch substances with gravel, crushed rock, or the like, used for paving.
5) Steel:
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron...