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1. Evaluating William Milnor's article I respect the work of Mr. Minor and all his dedication to the development of civil engineering in the United States. But my concern is like with the rest of civil engineers that are in America, are they trying to make their work worldwide or they just want to keep their legacy nationwide.

2.Evaluating the capital budgeting article From what I have read, whatever is said seems related to the topic based on my understanding. Sometimes, I do feel a little bit distracted because I think the information that they are trying to present us does not go with what the article is all about. For example, when they were talkin about the internal rate of return, they mentioned many shortcuts of names like IRR, NPV...This was a little bit confusing because I had to go back to the correct correlation and see what it means,

3.Evaluating the transport of economics article Despite of this being a Great Article, I feel like there are a lot of terms that we got to take into consideration. The article established the supply and demand issue very quickly, even though there are claims that were biased to me in a economic point of view. Sidinho26 (talk) 21:21, 31 January 2019 (UTC)Sidinho26Sidinho26 (talk) 21:21, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Week 4 Assignment
If Wikipedia was written 100 years ago, its content and contributors would be much different from what is right now. In General, many aspects of life are different from what they were hundred years ago. The advancement of technology is considerable, and we can see the daily lives that are affected by it. The articles that are uploaded on Wikipedia are mainly based on technological facts, so the content would be less based on technology. To get our attention of what was Wikipedia was like 100 years ago, we have to be focused on the people, the contributors. 100 years ago from now were probably when my grandfather or grand grandfather was living. They had less access to Internet, not to say at all. Everything they were writing was based on some facts that they saw with their naked eyes. In today's world, in order to write an article, we have so many resources that we can use in order to write. The comparison can be harsh because it is like comparing two people from different generations. If they had the resources that we have now, it is fair to say that we would probably write better and more interesting articles. Technology has really changed the world in many ways.

If it comes to civil engineering and its subdisciplines, the topics that were written years ago. From earthen dams to concrete gravity dams, from brick or stone buildings to concrete, steel and timber buildings, from unlined canals to smooth lined canals, from building a one storey buildings to a 828m tall building, a lot has changed.We started building tall by showing our capacity to build pyramids without our technology but now using technology we can build faster and taller. We were never able to span long straits but now we are able to construct a suspension or a cable stayed bridge across the strait. We were never able to deal with earthquakes, but now we have slowly realized how to deal with earthquakes.Before we were conservative in our designs, but now we are much more accurate.Before we designed everything using a pen and paper and some linear calculus, but now we use Non linear finite element analysis for our designing.Before, hardly any people thought of optimization, but now with increase in demands and knowledge we think about using our resources wisely.Before, cost was not a major criteria, now you need to show how can you construct in limits.Before, buildings and structures were failing regularly, but now, the scenario is rare unless some one designs foolishly. In regards to Wellington, Campbell, and other civil engineering legends, An exploration of a town's past and my present can be done to see the differences. Though I believed at the beginning of their project that they would be observing a town transformed by agricultural manufacturing, what they found was somewhat different, and surprising to them. “It was not the cheese industry which thrived in Wellington in the nineteenth century (although it certainly had its share of factories) but rather the cheese trade. It was not factories that so much dominated the local landscape as it was warehouses and stores. Consequently, the story that is told in the following pages is not so much a story of the transition from farm to factory as it is of commercial growth in the countryside” Sidinho26 (talk) 20:18, 23 February 2019 (UTC)Sidinho26

Article Selection
For this assignment, I have decided to talk about Infrastructure Engineering and Project Engineering. I have found the two articles that talk about them in Wikipedia interesting and decided to spend some time on them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_and_economics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_engineering Sidinho26 (talk) 20:40, 23 February 2019 (UTC)sidinho26