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Charles Brian Crouse
Charles Brian Crouse is an American earthquake engineer and engineering seismologist, a principal engineer at AECOM in Seattle who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Charles Bridge
Charles Bridge (Karlův most) is a medieval stone arch bridge crossing the Vltava in Prague, laid by Charles IV in 1357 and completed in the early 15th century.
Charles J. Pankow
Charles J. Pankow (1923–2004) was an American civil engineer who founded Charles Pankow Builders and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
Charles Joseph Minard
Charles Joseph Minard was a French civil engineer who became a pioneer of statistical graphics, best known for his 1869 flow map of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign.
Chartered Engineer
Chartered Engineer (CEng) is a protected professional title awarded by the UK Engineering Council, the highest of its four registration titles, assessed by peer review against UK-SPEC.
Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors
The Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (CICES) is a British professional body and educational charity representing civil engineering surveyors, founded in 1969 and granted a royal charter in 2009.
Chashma Barrage
Chashma Barrage is a barrage-cum-reservoir on the Indus River near Chashma village in Mianwali District, Punjab, Pakistan, completed in 1971 and housing a 184 MW hydropower station.
Check dam
A check dam, also known as a check weir, is a small dam across a channel, gully, or drainage ditch that slows runoff, reduces erosion, and traps sediment.
Check valve
A check valve, also known as a non-return valve, is a two-port mechanism that automatically permits fluid flow in one direction, preventing reverse flow and limiting pressure surges.
Chengyang Bridge
Chengyang Bridge, formally the Yongji Bridge, is a covered wooden bridge over the Linxi River in Sanjiang County, Guangxi, China, built by Dong craftsmen from 1912 to 1924.
Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board
The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, known as Metro Water, is the statutory body supplying water and sewerage services in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Cheonggyecheon
Cheonggyecheon (청계천) is a restored urban stream in central Seoul, tributary to the Han River, once buried under an elevated highway and reopened in 2005.
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (C&D Canal) is a 14-mile sea-level ship canal across the Delmarva Peninsula, connecting the Delaware River to the Chesapeake Bay and Port of Baltimore.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, or C&O Canal, is a 184.5-mile historic canal along the Potomac River from Georgetown, Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Maryland, built between 1828 and 1850.
Chesapeake Bay Bridge
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge, officially the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge, is a pair of toll spans crossing Chesapeake Bay between Annapolis and Kent Island, Maryland, opened in 1952 and 1973.
Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District is a political subdivision of Virginia that finances, operates, and maintains the Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel, the toll crossing linking the Eastern Shore to Hampton Roads.
Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel, formally the Lucius J. Kellam Jr. Bridge–Tunnel, is a 17.6-mile toll crossing of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, opened in 1964.
Chézy formula
The Chézy formula is an empirical equation for the mean velocity of uniform flow in open channels, V = C√(RS), derived by French engineer Antoine Chézy in 1769.
Chicago Loop flood (1992)
The Chicago Loop flood of 1992 began on April 13, when river water poured through a breached freight tunnel, flooding the Loop and forcing about 200,000 workers to evacuate.
Chickamauga Dam
Chickamauga Dam is a Tennessee Valley Authority hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River about 7 miles northeast of Chattanooga, built between 1936 and 1940 for flood control.
Chicoasén Dam
Chicoasén Dam, officially the Manuel Moreno Torres Dam, is a hydroelectric dam on the Grijalva River in Chiapas, Mexico, opened in 1981 with the country's tallest dam curtain.
Chimney drain
A chimney drain is a vertical or near-vertical drainage element inside an embankment dam, running from abutment to abutment, that intercepts seepage and protects the core against internal erosion.
China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (中巴经济走廊)
The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor, or CPEC, is a bilateral infrastructure program linking Kashgar in China with Pakistan's port of Gwadar, launched in 2013 as the flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Chinampa
A chinampa is a small artificial island built on a shallow lake bed in Mesoamerica, used by the Aztecs to grow crops on raised beds.
Chinese Society of Civil Engineering
The Chinese Society of Civil Engineering (中国土木工程学会) is one of China's oldest engineering academic bodies, founded in 1912 by railway engineer Zhan Tianyou and renamed the China Civil Engineering Society in 1953.
Chittenden Locks
The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, known locally as the Ballard Locks, are navigation locks in Seattle completed in 1917 as part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
Chloramination
Chloramination is a drinking water treatment that converts free chlorine to monochloramine by adding ammonia, producing a longer-lasting residual disinfectant that forms fewer regulated byproducts; about 30% of surveyed US systems use it.
Choosing by advantages
Choosing by Advantages (CBA) is a decision-making system, developed by civil engineer Jim Suhr, that bases decisions on the importance of advantages rather than the weights of factors.
Christine Mary Keville
Christine Mary Keville is an American construction engineer who founded Keville Enterprises, one of the country's largest woman-owned construction management firms, and chairs the National Academy of Construction.
Chungju Dam
Chungju Dam (충주댐) is South Korea's largest concrete gravity dam, on the Namhan River near Chungju, supplying water to Seoul and generating the country's largest hydropower capacity.