2007-10-05 15:41:54 · 6 answers · asked by JD93 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
Civil Engineers do a lot of things depending on the area of their practice. They do design structures (not like architect). They design roads, bridges, drainage plans, subdivisions, sewer systems, toll booths, ITS (intelligent traffic systems), Traffic lights on city roads, etc.
Other than these things, they do work on construction sites and work as contractor (or his team member) or as supervisors or an inspectors or resident engineers.
They also work in office doing lot of studies for new projects.
They also work as researcher developing new types of concretes and new techniques to develop better construction materials. They also work as project managers to manage large or small projects.
This list can go on and on. But it is not true that they just sit in front of computer and design, it depends which area he works.
2007-10-06 17:44:09 · answer #1 · answered by Ketan P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They sit in front of a computer screen for 8 to 10 hours a day and watch their life go down the drain while their paychecks stagnates.
Yes it's true that engineers have the highest starting salaries when they get out of college but after college, salaries do not increase as much as many other majors and fields. Civil Engineering is notorious for having the lowest salaries out of all the engineering fields yet they carry the highest liability and professional fees burden.
A friend and I graduated from college at the same time, I got my degree in Civil Engineering and he got his degree in English. He got a job at a major bank and naturally I got a job with a Civil Engineering firm. 10 years later he is making twice as much as I do. I can site several more examples of people graduating with non-engineering degrees starting out with less salary than me right after college but the majority of them now are making more than I do or any of my fellow enigineers do.
2007-10-06 09:04:09 · answer #2 · answered by A B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While an architect designs a building a civil engineer actually does it makable they do the ground study, material resistance and structural analysis to make sure a construction won`t fall down. Lots of calculus and physics involved in it
2007-10-05 22:49:02 · answer #3 · answered by michael_gdl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
check this source out..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_engineering
my dad was a civil engineer. He designed sewage and highway systems.
There are many specialities of civil engineering.
Alot of math-geometry is involved.
2007-10-05 22:49:40 · answer #4 · answered by abc123 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
designs buildings
roads, water plants, sewers, constructions management, dams
2007-10-06 13:13:46 · answer #5 · answered by koki83 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A B, are you a P.E. yet?...
2007-10-09 15:30:31 · answer #6 · answered by geezuskreyest 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋