sanitary engineering

American  

noun

1. a branch of civil engineering dealing with matters affecting public health, as water supply or sewage disposal.

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sanitary engineering British  

noun

1. the branch of civil engineering associated with the supply of water, disposal of sewage, and other public health services

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Other Word Forms

• sanitary engineer
  noun

Etymology

Origin of sanitary engineering

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

He received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1947 and master’s degree in sanitary engineering a year later, both from Johns Hopkins.

From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2021

Largely because of the devastation caused by infectious diseases, local communities were forced to form boards of health, which established quarantine measures and tried to provide for sanitary engineering.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Portland, Ore., a clause in the will of A. C. Forrester, late sanitary engineer, ran: "I give and bequeath unto the so-called sanitary engineering profession or professors a good healthy Bronx cheer."

From Time Magazine Archive

The 1893 panic forced him to cease studying sanitary engineering at Purdue University.

From Time Magazine Archive

One does not usually regard him as an apostle of civilization, but he ought certainly to be canonized as the patron saint of continental sanitary engineering.

From A Surgeon in Belgium by Souttar, Henry Sessions