Origins of Engineering and Beginning of Engineering Education

From the earliest days of universities in the Middle Ages, proffesional schools have been associated with institutions of higher education. These schools provided training and education according to the needs of society. Those days, subjects were mainly about medicine.
As society's needs progress , some other subjects qualified for participation in university environment,including engineering. First, military engineers came up as the first engineers by the government in order to build up roads,bridges and fortifications.Then the term "civil engineering" entered the lexicon as a way to distinguish between those specializing in the construction of such non-military projects and those involved in the older discipline of military engineering.
As the other types of engineering appeared , universities began to give engineering education to their students.

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