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LBYCVW1

LBYCVW1 final report
What are the civil engineering applications of the lessons we learned in this Laboratory
Class. Also indicate how YOU will be applying these lessons in your future career as a civil
engineer.
As a future civil engineer, it is our job and responsibility to ensure the economical
applications to real life of the theories that are taught in the classroom, the safety of the structures
of that we are designing and the satisfaction of the clients we are working for. During this term,
it is the first time that we have to tackle fluid mechanics and for the duration of this laboratory
class I have learned a lot from the experiments that we are performing in the water laboratory.
Some of the lessons that we have learned so far are the orifices, weirs, Bernoullis equation and
pressure head and velocity head. The engineering applications that we these lessons may be
applied to are dams, waterways, water tanks, sewages, piping and structures that are concerned
with bodies of water. In dams, we are able to know how much pressure will be acting of the wall
which is really important in considering the height and width of the structure to be erected. In
waterways, we need to know the rate of flow of water in order to design that waterway properly.
For water tanks, we will be needing the Bernoullis equation to know how the pressures
generated by the tank. We will also be considering that tank an orifice lesson application,
whether it be falling or constant head to know how fast the water will be flowing out of the tank
and what would be the discharge rate of the tank. There are many more applications of the
lessons learned from the experiments done. The important thing that in the application of the
theories one must be sure that the values that will be calculated are right and every variables for
the problem that will be solved are to be known correctly. In the future, I am sure that one of the
topics taken on this term will be applied to what I will be working on. So it is imperative to
master and practice the theories to be sure that the engineering work is done accurate and dead-
on because it is profession as engineers to make that theory to a reality and make the lives of the
people around us better. Practice makes perfect so the more we are able to encounter such
problems the more we are able to solve them and the faster we are able to solve them. It is also
essential to go back to the basic when solving engineering problems because we engineers
sometimes think too much about the challenges that we are facing in the field. When one
encounters such, it is good to sometimes sit back and relax, think, and look at the problem at a
different angle.