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... As demand for engineering skills was slow to develop, engineering schools were slow to emerge: For almost the first half of the nineteenth century, only West Point and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduated American engineers. Civil engineering was the first engineering discipline to attain professional status in the United States.
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