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There is an old joke: "What's the difference between civil and mechanical engineers? Mechanical engineers build weapons -- civil engineers build targets." Yuck yuck. In reality civil engineering involves the design and construction of buildings, roadways, bridges, railroads, water supply, drainage, and sewers. Sometimes this is referred to as "infrastructure" Usually these are larger things that have a long service life. Mechanical engineering deals with machinery -- automobiles, trucks, machine tools, engines, pumps, and things of that nature -- including weapons. Typically it involves shorter service life, smaller size (although there are some Really Big machines out there!) and more precision.

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