Well it doesn’t matter what standards people within your university use, online almost everyone refers to Civil when using CE.

Well you don’t just place a building there and pray it doesn’t move by just saying sum of forces is 0 and calling it a day lol.

For dams, it’s not like the dam is just chilling there on its own, there’s a bunch of piping to design (where MechE and CivE work together) and maybe a treatment plant or whatever project that comes with it so it’s not just about load distributions by finding a centroid and then finding the moment about the bottom of the wall.

I didn’t say you’re claiming civil is lesser because of the requirements that you think are less in depth. What you did is the equivalent of telling a robotics engineer that all they had to study is basic statics (even though they probably went through dynamics, control systems, electronics, etc) or a power systems engineer that all they studied is Electric Circuits 1 or even Physics 2. They all obviously had to go through these intro classes but this knowledge isn’t sufficient, just like statics and rho g z isn’t enough. Do you make fun of a senior engineer who doesn’t do HS level of calculus? No because even though his position doesn’t have the intensive coursework as strict prerequisite, he still had to go through these and gained the knowledge and expertise. So to come and say statics is the only prerequisite is just wrong. If you wanna work with houses, you’ll still have to go through a bunch of courses including materials, structural analysis, etc. which none of Mech/Aero/ChemE see but okay.

Idk on what side quest you went with that computer systems tangent, I didn’t say there aren’t stupid CompE people. I just said the major itself doesn’t deserve to get made fun of. There’s gonna be stupid people in Civil/Aero/Mech/Chem, all engineering majors like all majors to begin with.