What kind of engineers travel a lot?

Question

environmental, civil, aerospace, biomedical...do any of these occupations involve traveling to different states or countries???

Answer 1

Civil engineers travel quite a bit, as it is a hands on engineering profession. It requires a lot of time spent at a job site to study things like the soil a building with be founded on, the layout of the building dimensions (surveying), water drainage, field inspections, etc.

I travel several times a month in my job as a structural engineer.

Answer 2

It does depend on your job for eg. an application engineer is often called upon to customer sites. Many do not travel a lot. Although you should still plan on some. Engineer spouse often think their partner is cheating more often they are just working. That needs some balance. Telecommuting is getting easier but its not really for the new engineer. Job Criteria: Large head office is where you live so you don't need to go there. Designs are implemented at that office so you don't need to go there. You don't work directly with customers off site because you would need to visit them. Your customers are on site engineers and you deliver your work to on site engineers. Both from your company. There are examples in any engineering discipline.

Answer 3

A lot of engineers travel to do their work, it all depends on what they want to do. Out of those you have, I think that a civil engineer would travel the most to go on sight and such.

Answer 4

I am an EE. In my first 2 jobs I travelled quite a lot within the US for lots of reasons (jobsites, temporary duty stations, conventions, seminars). In my current job, I have yet to travel (for business) and it's been 10 years.

So... it depends on who you work for and your specific job duties perhaps moreso than what kind of engineer you train to be.

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Answer 5

Train engineers :)
Sorry, weird mood again

Answer 6

regardless of specialty, those wanted by the law.

Answer 7

scour the want ads for ideas on that!