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Building Bridges Starts in the Mind

Engineering - More than Technical Solutions

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  1. Moritz Menge

    1. Linz, Austria

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  • The book encourages reflection on the everyday aspects of civil engineering activities
  • The content of the book can be easily applied to most engineering activities
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About this book

Being a civil engineer is a fulfilling profession. Civil engineers design sustainable infrastructure. We build houses, roads, bridges, tunnels, cultural centres, towers and much more. We often bring all our engineering skills to bear to achieve solid solutions. And often even more, which lies beyond the technical art of engineering.

The book looks beyond the technical solutions into the wider environment of civil engineers and reflects on their profession and their own attitude from a wide variety of perspectives. "Building bridges begins in the mind" means engaging in the search for connections - to a holistic professional image and to one's position as an engineer.








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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Moritz Menge
    Pages 1-4

  3. Being an Engineer with Serenity

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    Pages 5-18

  4. Engineers and their Responsibility

    • Moritz Menge
    Pages 19-36

  5. Engineers and their Pigeonhole

    • Moritz Menge
    Pages 37-45

  6. Engineers in the Change of Digitalization

    • Moritz Menge
    Pages 47-54

  7. Professional Everyday Life—Engineers in Construction and Planning Projects

    • Moritz Menge
    Pages 55-72

  8. Engineers as Executives

    • Moritz Menge
    Pages 73-85

  9. Engineers and their Error Management

    • Moritz Menge
    Pages 87-97

  10. Statics does not Agree with Haste

    • Moritz Menge
    Pages 99-119

  11. The “Psyche” of Statics

    • Moritz Menge
    Pages 121-125

  12. Civil Engineers and their role in Climate Change

    • Moritz Menge
    Pages 127-135

  13. Engineers and Politicians

    • Moritz Menge
    Pages 137-148

  14. Engineers and Lawyers in the Construction and Planning Process

    • Moritz Menge
    Pages 149-159

  15. Engineers and Sales

    • Moritz Menge
    Pages 161-168

  16. Engineers and (their) Children

    • Moritz Menge
    Pages 169-187

  17. Afterword

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    Pages 189-190

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 191-193
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Linz, Austria

    Moritz Menge

About the author

​Dipl.-Ing. Moritz Menge, born in Bonn in 1975, studied civil engineering at RWTH Aachen University and has since worked as a structural engineer, project manager and team leader in structural engineering for bridges, tunnels and buildings. He regularly publishes articles from these projects in the relevant specialist journals.He resides in Linz on the Danube with his wife and three children.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Building Bridges Starts in the Mind

  • Book Subtitle: Engineering - More than Technical Solutions

  • Authors: Moritz Menge

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44235-4

  • Publisher: Springer Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-658-44234-7Published: 09 April 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-44237-8Due: 10 May 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-44235-4Published: 08 April 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 193

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Engineering, general, Civil Engineering, Architectural History and Theory, Building Types and Functions

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